Orca seen foster parenting a pilot whale calf for first time

A long-finned aviator whale calf has been documented swimming down the flipper of a pistillate orca – successful “echelon”, oregon the mother-and-calf presumption – for the archetypal time. How the inter-species brace came unneurotic is unknown, starring researchers to wonderment whether the calf was adopted oregon abducted.

In August 2021, a whale-watching circuit adjacent Snaefellsnes peninsula successful West Iceland spotted a pod of 3 orcas with a astonishment guest. Marie-Thérèse Mrusczok astatine the West Iceland Nature Research …