Date: 2014-02-03 09:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elspethdixon
the hunting group in the wild that works together to overturn a seal's icefloe

I saw footage of orcas doing that in a different documentary (one about polar marine life rather than about animals in captivity) and it blew me away. Not only did they work as a team to flip the piece of ice over, they first dove under it and thwacked the underside with their tails in unison to break the larger icefloe into pieces small enough to flip over. It's one of the more impressive clearly-requiring-planning-and-forethought things I've seen non-primate animals do.
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