#seaanimals #sealife #sea #ocean #nationalgeographic #discovery #bbcearth #bluewhale #scubadiving #swimmer #escape #narrowescape #fishing #viral Orcas are apex predators, which means they're at the very top of the food chain .They have no predators. Killer whales are some of the largest and most powerful animals in the ocean, and no other predator is able to challenge them. Orcas aren’t called killer whales for nothing. They’re incredibly intelligent creatures, and while humans have nothing to worry about — in the wild, anyway — the animals they prey on sure do. A clip from the BBC’s newly released Frozen Planet II shows just how skilled they are in the art of the hunt. In it, a pod of orcas are seen during an incredibly synchronized hunt. A seal is napping on a slab of ice when it becomes the target of the whales. An orca does something we call “spy-hopping,” in which they poke their heads up out of the water to get a sly look at what’s above the surface. This enables them to pick out
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