Killer Whale and Weddell Seal (IMAGE)

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Killer Whale and Weddell Seal

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A killer whale "spy-hops" to identify a Weddell seal resting on an ice floe off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The whale will notify other killer whales in the area so they can coordinate a wave to wash the seal off the floe.

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Robert Pitman/NOAA

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