5 Animals That Are Capable Of Outsmarting And Fighting Back Against Orcas

Orcas are easily the most dominant predators in our oceans, and it almost seems as though hunting is too easy for them. They'll destroy their closest competitors and they'll even eliminate the largest animal to have ever lived, and we can count ourselves lucky that they choose to leave us alone. Only the cruelty of captivity can turn them into human killers, but unfortunately for a massive group of marine mammals they are on the menu. It almost seems unfair for other animals to have to face these formidable predators, but surprisingly in some cases marine mammals fight back or manage to outsmart orcas. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Humpback Whales 4:42 Pilot Whales 7:19 Steller's Sea Lions 9:17 Sperm Whales 12:05 Walruses Attributions: Humpback whale images and diagrams: Jjw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpbac... CC BY-SA 4.0 Blue whale images and diagrams: Kurzon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wh... CC BY-SA 3.0 Orca images: Callan Carpenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca#/m... CC BY 4.0 Pilot whale images: Vsevolod https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 Cayambe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-f... CC BY-SA 3.0 Steller sea lion images: Cale Green https://www.flickr.com/photos/1428773... CC BY-SA 3.0 Mobbing bird images: Mike's Birds https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 Dori https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 US Sperm whale images: Mike Goren https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/share-you... Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed :) Sources: https://www.livescience.com/whale-wat... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an.... https://www.theguardian.com/environme.... https://www.icelandic-orcas.com/post/.... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat.... https://mmru.ubc.ca/wp-content/pdfs/B... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2... https://www.livescience.com/animals/w... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.cascadiaresearch.org/file... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y... https://www.vice.com/en/article/angry... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7... https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifes... https://nypost.com/2016/05/18/walrus-... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...