It is difficult to know whether this hunting strategy is a new behaviour or simply being observed more as “there are so many more eyes on the water now” with the rise of underwater cameras and drone technology, says Deborah Giles, an orca scientist at the University of California, Davis, and researcher at the non-profit SeaDoc Society, based on Orcas Island, Washington. “It might simply be that we’re looking for it, and we’re seeing it.”
