{"id":314847,"date":"2025-12-14T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:05:09","slug":"do-killer-whales-and-dolphins-hunt-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314847\/","title":{"rendered":"Do killer whales and dolphins hunt together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dolphins and killer whales might seem like an unlikely team, but scientists have captured rare footage of them hunting and foraging together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A team studied the mammals using drones and camera tags near the coast in British Columbia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/65048739\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study found that on 25 occasions the killer whales, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/45676289\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orcas<\/a>,  changed their direction to follow dolphins when they dived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cameras then showed the Pacific white-sided dolphins scooping up the leftovers from the Orcas&#8217; prey. A dream team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins and killer whales might seem like an unlikely team, but scientists have captured rare footage of them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-314847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}