{"id":179403,"date":"2025-12-12T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:01:09","slug":"killer-whales-and-dolphins-seen-hunting-together-in-rare-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179403\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Scientists have captured rare footage of killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins hunting together near the coast of British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Despite their common name &#8216;killer whale&#8217;, orca are actually the largest species of dolphin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The findings, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They studied the mammals using drones and camera tags to understand feeding behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Not only were the killer whales orienting [themselves] towards the dolphins at the surface, but when the dolphins started to dive, our tagged killer whales would start to dive,&#8221;  lead researcher Dr Sarah Fortune from Dalhousie University in Canada said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have captured rare footage of killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins hunting together near the coast of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-179403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}