By Pete Thomas
An amateur photographer has captured stunning aerial footage showing two orcas chasing and catching stingrays in shallow water off Te Horo Beach in New Zealand.
Jayven Moore, a tile worker, was visiting Te Horo with a friend and launched his drone-cam after they had spotted large dorsal fins from the beach.
“I almost wasn’t going to bother, but I’m glad I did,” Moore told Stuff New Zealand. “It was pretty amazing.”
Orca researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger told me that the killer whales in the footage are likely a mother and calf.
They’re participating in a behavior called prey sharing and, as viewers can see toward the end of the video, this doesn’t end well for a stingray being torn in half as the orcas separate.
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