Two orcas share a stingray meal in this video screen grab
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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