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“You can see in one of the videos the matriarch coming up and attacking the rudder with calf at side of her, then she drops back and then the little calf gets in to have a go,” he said. Passenger Greg Blackburn, told 9news that a mother whale appeared to be instructing her calf in the boat-ramming technique. In another incident this month a pod of six Killer Whales came after a sailboat in the strait. An image taken from a video of a Killer Whale boat attack. The crew had to be rescued by the Spanish coast guard while the boat was ultimately towed to port and later sunk. “The two little orcas observed the bigger one’s technique and, with a slight run-up, they too slammed into the boat.” he added.

#KILLER WHALE FULL#

“There were two smaller and one larger orca … The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the ship with full force from the side,” Schaufelberger said. In one attack on May 4, three killer whales began ramming a yacht sailing inside the Strait of Gibraltar - and the incident was a family affair, according to skipper Werner Schaufelberger who spoke to the German website Yacht. Killer Whales do not attack humans - but have lately been a danger to boats. “The orcas are doing this on purpose, of course, we don’t know the origin or the motivation, but defensive behavior based on trauma, as the origin of all this, gains more strength for us every day,” he added. “That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat,” López Fernandez told the outlet. Scientists now think one traumatized orca may have sparked the phenomenon.Ī killer whale dubbed White Gladis by researchers may have endured a “critical moment of agony,” believed to be either a collision with a vessel or some sort of entrapment, then went on the attack, researcher Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told. There have been dozens of orca attacks in the Strait of Gilbralter since 2020, in which the beasts ram boats, targeting their rudders and often causing serious damage. Killer whales appear to be teaching their young to attack boats in Europe, multiple eyewitnesses to the events report. Humpback whale washes up on Long Island – 17th beached this year Humpback whale nearly crashes into boat: ‘Scare the hell out of me’ Killer whales may be attacking boats to avenge injured matriarch: scientists Suspected Russia-trained spy whale spotted off Sweden’s coast