Orca's Extraordinary Hunting Technique | A Perfect Planet | BBC Earth

This orca is thought to be one of the first of her kind to use the rising of the tide to her advantage.

#APerfectPlanet

Watch more:

Taken from A Perfect Planet
Marvel at nature’s epic and powerful forces as this stunning series reveals how perfectly our planet is set up to nurture life. Discover how our incredible living planet operates. See how sunlight, weather, ocean currents and volcanoes all work together in an intricate balancing act to shape and support the great diversity of life on Earth. Filmed in spectacular habitats around the globe, the series shows how animals of all shapes and sizes are perfectly adapted to whatever the environment throws at them. But what happens when nature’s epic forces are knocked off course? As human activity impacts on Earth’s perfectly balanced ecosystems, what can we do to protect the fragility of life on our unique and precious planet?

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

[evagerritsen]

This video is like:
Hey, how cute are these seals eh?
Wanna see them get eaten?

[ghomerhust]

orcas are simply incredible. so intelligent. this is why im in full support of them NOT being in theme parks. it's borderline indentured servitude because of how intelligent they are.

[terramater]

Orcas are one of the most fascinating animals out there, and there's still so much to learn about them!

[secretmagic]

As much as it horrifies me how the cute seals get eaten, it's a joy to see some orcas with healthy, firm, and straight fins

[StephenDoty]

Some other orca is saying, "I've been doin this for years. She didn't invent it."

[alexfreetime]

2:34 look at the birds to the right, they're already "nope, this isn't happening, I'm outta here"as soon as they spot the finn

[canuckerbird]

If orcas ever decided to put humans on their menu, I'd be afraid to go back into the ocean knowing that some super intelligent mammal that hunts great whites is out there looking for a snack.

[zerieljianantonino]

Thumbnail was like
Seal 1: "BRO SWIM!!! ORCA!!!"
Seal 2:

[lo-firobotboy]

I spent the summer with the orca on the west coast of Canada. Some of the transient families use a similar technique for catching and inshore seals and sea lions. The difference with our orca is that while one or two hunters wait silently beside the seal colony, another one will circle 'round to the other side and work to scare the seals off the rocks and into the water.

[darkjul]

This is not the same without David Attenborough's voice..

[natalia-mnli]

orca's hunting strategies are incredible. with no question, the smartest and biggest predator in the ocean and in the world. queens

[reszsfa]

hey, that's spawn killing. report them to the admin

[paulie]

Ultimate badass of the ocean. They are so adaptable.

[robertosmith]

“The first orca in the world to hunt like this” yeah that’s a bit presumptuous to say the least.

[ashwinf]

Orcas are amazing, beautiful and at the same time
quite frightfully intelligent creatures

[raenashaikh]

How silent did that Orca had to be to not get noticed at THAT close a distance to that seal???
SUPERB!

[karlbjorkquist]

It is believed she is the first one to do this hunting technique...and passing onto her young. This could have been done over a million generations.

[jahmah]

The Orca has no predators, they are up there with their hunting technics & are extremely clever.

[mrmichael]

Who else imagines attenborough's voice, when the narrator speaks.

[WillieWeed]

The way families stay together for lives of 80 years. Even after taking on mates and having babies. Humans could learn a lot from these amazing family groups.