How Killer Whales are Changing the Arctic | Earth Explained!
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Life in the frozen North is changing. ❄️Due to climate change, seasonal pack ice extends much less than it previously did, meaning that once closed-off waterways like Eclipse Sound are now open to visitors almost all year round. ↠Subscribe: th-cam.com/users/TerraMaterO...
And when those visitors are highly skilled predators like killer whales, the entire ecosystem could be turned on its head... Shot in the Canadian Arctic, our latest video explores the effect that rising sea temperatures are having on iconic polar species like orcas and narwhals. We explore the importance of ice in shaping local ecosystems and find out why killer whales are the perfect predators.
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Original Productions:
"Killer Whales - Fins of Change" directed by Ben Wallis
A Terra Mater Factual Studios/Brian Leith Productions Ltd. production in co-production with Thirteen WNET/New York and NDR Naturfilm Doclights GmbH
"Whale Wisdom" directed by Rick Rosenthal
A Terra Mater Factual Studios production in co-production with Doclights/NDR Naturfilm in association with ARTE France/Unité Découverte et Connaissance produced by Wild Logic
Story by Philip Jaime Alcazar: / philipalcazar
Based on the original production by Ben Wallis
Voice-Over: Julian Nightingall
Graphics: Joerg Eisenprobst
Motion Graphics: Elias Freiberger / Oblique Films
Sound Design: Hupo Weninger
Music: RedBull Audio Library
Producer & Editor: Philip-Jaime Alcazar
Ass. Producer: Katrin Blaß
Exec. Producer: Eva Schmidt
A Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH Production
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🧷 Sources:
[1] The Canadian Press - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Arctic Bay in Nunavut: • Prime Minister Justin ...
[2] NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - Disappearing Ice: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4616
[3] NOAA Fisheries - Killer Whale: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/specie...
[4] American Film Institute: Robert J. Flaherty / Nanook of the North, USA 1922: catalog.afi.com/Catalog/movie...
[5] NOAA Fisheries - Narwhal: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/specie...
[6] University of Manitoba - Sustained disruption of narwhal habitat use and behavior in the presence of Arctic killer whales: www.researchgate.net/scientif...
[7] Steve Ferguson et al. - Killer whale abundance and predicted narwhal consumption in the Canadian Arctic: www.researchgate.net/publicat...
🎼 Music:
(Red Bull Audio Library: Disk | Title)
[1] RDR 0012 MAX COOPER | Harking Back
[2] AXD3019_018_Turnaround Ritournelle | Turnaround Ritournelle
[3] 2454 Acoustic Minimal Underscores | Mirrored Cubes
[4] DCD049-Underscores 3 | Evolution Eclipse_Ambient
[5] AXD3017 Beautiful Landscapes | Unexpected Landscapes
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Damnnn narwhals need a buff, they were given 8ft spears just for it to be extremely sensitive and directly connected to the brain.
B.B.J. For real they need a buff asap
Teir zoo fan
@zedlika Orcas are the number two build in the current Meta, and they are not gonna be nerfed any time soon.
What is this nba2k? When’s the next patch, Demi god lol
@zedlika damn bro, u just have to get better at using them orcas
In 2085 Orcas ran out of aquatic prey and started raiding human settlements, authorities are considering tightening their already strict travelling restrictions, Orcas claim discrimination.
2090: land mark case makes Australia Orca territory
3021
The usa declares war on the orca federation
3050
Humanity flees the solar system to escape their water panda overlords
Brave of you to assume humanity will still exist by then.
Orcas are causing global warming so they will be able to prey on humans as our cities start to flood
3:02 "this ones for my boy, Steve Irwin."
😂😂😂
I BlOcK bAllZ same
i dont get the joke
@@xqcumber1664 a stingray killed the famous crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.
@@xqcumber1664 boi
Orcas are so intelligent that they literally speak different dialects depending on regions. The different orca groups are pretty much orca ethnicities with their own hunting tactics sharpened and passed down through the generations. They are the humans of the ocean, basically.
Yep! And teach each other through language! Remarkable animals.
At least they don't pollute, also not responsible for melting ice caps, climate change, etc.
@zuze They already torture seals and penguins for entertainment
@@smallone2351 yea and? literally every living creature does horrible things. but its part of nature. dolphins rape. dears eat birds, zebras murder baby zebras etc.
@@iwillhaveyourorder5174 No, it's not the same. Only few animals do horrible things for fun. Most of them kill and rape because of its instinct.
Orcas have one issues: they're too smart to their own good.
Not much different from humans anyway, who also hunted tons of species to the extinction.
Indeed, they're really smart!
They're one of the few animals which adapt their hunting methods according to their different prey.
So have bacteria. I'm not sure you understand how natural selection works.
@@gd3369 Actually not 100% correct. They do indeed kill eachother aswell. Its most common to see it with their calfs. A rival male, can and will with the help of its mother, co-op and kill the calf of another female Orca in order to further their genes. The males mother, will block the calf's mother, and the male will drown the calf, dragging it down and away from the mother. When the calf is dead, the male gets sexual access to mate. Its brutal, but in many cases needed behavior, to save the genes from inbreeding.
@@gd3369 Totally false. Killer whales kill other large whales just to eat their tongues and then they leave the rest behind.
@@terramater do they hunt polar bear too?
At these rate Narwhals will live up to their unicorn of the sea name... mythical like unicorns
Did you know narwhals are descendants of unicorns?
Edit: Horses turned into whales, Narwhals have a single horn...
@@jacobhoover1654 😑
Jacob Hoover wish you’re being sarcastic
@@jacobhoover1654 they must be relatives, some unicorns were driven into the sea and evolved and finally became narwhals.
@@jacobhoover1654 Sure. That explains those saddles on their backs.
Orcas be like: "they even come with their own toothpicks😄"
Lol
Hearing my native language on TH-cam feels weird 😅. I live in nunavik, but seeing Nunavut news on TH-cam is encouraging
Hi there! Do you hunt? I wonder what narwhals test like? :)
Teach your mother tongue to the next generation!
@@saraf5414 g narwhals are endangered
That's really cool!
Hey I was wondering, sorry if it's a stupid question, but do Inuit and people in the arctic hunt orcas? That seems like a two birds one stone solution for me: reduce orcas population by hunting them so narwhals and belugas and other species can survive. I dunno, does that make sense?
@@l.s.9717 In my community, I’m that one guy who never goes hunting or bothers to learn our traditions 😅 lol
Damn, those water panda are scary
tell me when they will start to eat sea bamboo!
Pandas😳
Mrs Siegel orcas are one of my favorite animals
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More like sea wolves, both are Apex predators, social animals, pack hunters, highly intelligent.
The native hunters comments were interesting, actually Orcas have been helping human hunters in the described manner for ages
Oh wow, a comment not racially putting the Inuit down as dumb or inferior? Honestly, props to you!
Yeah
People don't realize the context of that man, he doesn't know about ecology nor natural selection. He can't know the long terms effects of this change not because he is dumb, but because nobody taught him or his people about that things.
It's like expecting people from China to speak perfect French, doesn't make sense in their context
@@M3A7 maybe they deleted everything, but I didn't see any racist comments
if killer whales are a problem just start legally hunting them. simple.
@@cosmopoiesecriandomundos7446 Same here, haven't seen one.
"We appreciate having the killer whales around to help us hunt."
Yeah, but... when the killer whales eat all of your food, then what?
The humans probably kill more narwhals than the whales
Thats why they are unretired fisherman instead of nuclear physicists.
They really need to put a barrier to protect the nursery ground. The killer whale literally attacked baby ward. The human also still hunting the Narwhal too. The only cheapest solution is put a big net that cover the bay entrance from the atlantic sea large enough hole to keep fish in and out but will prevent killer whale to go in. Just like a shock barrier that prevent Asian carp to enter the great lake in America. Another one is can bring profit but will probably receive backlash is hunting or capture killer whale then sold it off for human profit
@@Sapphiregriffin yeah :(
he'll be dead by then
Imagine a deep sea crew that sharks can’t even mess with. Killer whale OP
Sharks avoid dolphins as well as they are hunting in packs.
It's because lungs are much more efficient for processing oxygen than gills
Fo Shizzle my Orca loving Nizzle
You'd think that 8 foot spear could be used by the narwal for defense.
Well, only male narwhals have tusks. There are a few females that do too, but that is very rare. So if the orcas attacked a nursing ground, they would face females and calves. Which means that there probably weren't many tusks around to use for defense. And besides...I doubt it would help much against a large number of orcas. They are known to attack sharks as well, whose teeth don't really help them either. Orcas are the ultimate predators. Apart from humans, there is nothing that can really stop them.
You'd think there'd be Narwhals in the Narwhal massacre. You'd think there'd be Narwhal blood and guts at Narwhal massacre. global warming scam alert
@@katharinaberndt4359 Dry land stops them.
@@jotunnomachy2480 conspiracy right?
Michael Wescott Except that the narwhal’s tusk is full of nerves and not particularly solid. They mainly use them for gathering sensory information and socializing.
Theres been stories how killer whales would help whalers hunt other whales in return for feeding on the tongue and lips.
There's a video about that. 🤔 Very interesting. 🧐🐳 Also, the name started out as Killer of Whales, as they are not whales, but in the dolphin 🐬 family. It was easier to say Killer Whales.
@@spongemonkeysooz All dolphins are whales (tooth whales) but not all whales (baleen whales and other tooth whales) are dolphins.
Thank you for that information...🤔 you must have a very big 🧠... 🤗
1stVARifleman I don’t think anyone could’ve put it better. I have a brain cell count of 15 and I could understand that.
In my native language they are called blubber-chompers, bit more straight forward.
that slap on the stingray was amazing o.0
Orca uses "tail -slap".
It's super effective!
@@malkum77ify it is
Y’all better watch out. We’re over here studying them. But maybe they’re studying us lol
3:03 Whale litrally Yeeted the stingray lmao
Catching a snack.
spat out my beer on that one
@@jinjaninja69 wouldnt you if you are very smart and your entire life is swimming around the ocean without any videogames only knowing that your purpose in life is to live
There's videos of them throwing seal pups really high in the air it's a bit gruesome but very impressive
@kys If the sea went dry and orcas were forced to come to the shores, they will eventually become another kind of wolf?
Whale map expansion pack, must feel so good for them
Sounds like something tierZoo would say
Seeing how the killer whales have such a well developed hunt it is likely that it is a longstanding one. Just one that we haven't noticed before.
This channel deserves so much more love. You guys are incredible with your content, keep it up! You guys are sure to grow.
Orca moves like this has happened for as long as they've been around. We all live in a world that is constantly changing. Perhaps it is not so much the climate change that makes them change their hunting grounds as it is the OVER FISHING and POLLUTION.
The greatest threat to ocean mammals I would bet is the Fishing industry, which is basically sucking the oceans clean of fish, bottom to surface. You can't find any older bigger fish in any of the migrating schools of fish upon which the Orca feed any longer.
The fishing industry is too greedy to allow the fish to regenerate properly. They catch them as soon as they are big enough. The biggest threat to ocean life is over fishing, especially illegal fishing. No wonder the Orca move.... They of course go where they can find food.
I certainly agree. Even the populations of orca that feed on marine mammals rather than fish are directly affected since the prey they rely on suffer due to overfishing and pollution.
This is why fishing licenses and hunting seasons are so important. But the big industries don't care about anything but money
I agree, but it just be understood that fishing provides a livelihood for some people, it is an occupation. There needs to be stricter limits on size and quantity for the industry to be sustained as well as keeping the ocean ecosystems healthy.
Exactly. The Earth has been going through heating & cooling cycles naturally since the very beginning. You can take ALL man-made carbons combined throughout our entire history, and it's not a drop in the bucket compared to what a volcanic eruption produces DURING A SINGLE DAY. The same goes for the vast swamp & sea grass beds that bilge astronomical amounts of methane gas into the air ( another form of carbon ), and this too, has been going on since the beginning. Carbon is an essential building block for all life, and is especially needed by plant life, which in turn, produces oxygen. Yet the wicked, corrupt mainstream scientific community wants us to believe that "cow farts are warming the Earth". How incredibly stupid.
@@howabouthetruth2157 interesting, every single study on the subject l can find says the exact opposite. While a sigle LARGE and VIOLENT eruption may match the rate of carbon dioxide humans create, these eruption last just a few hours or days, and are extremely rare. We are burning carbon based fuel everyday, 24/7, all over the world, as it has never been done before. During a whole year all the volcano eruptions together can't match the human produced carbon dioxide, that is tens of times larger. I know that it's hard to picture how something so small as a car or a forest burn can produce more pollution than a huge volcano, but always remember, we are 7 billion people. Never in Earth's history a macro animal species has been so prolific.
Fun fact about volcanoes and the climate: the big eruptions from the past, created a COOLING effect on the global climate.
3:03
Killer whale uses *Slap*
*It's Super Effective*
Stingray collapsed!
*Sting* *ray* *is* *paralyzed!*
*It* *may* *be* *unable* *to* *move*
*Orca* *used* *bite!*
*Its* *super* *effective!*
*Wild* *Sting* *Ray* *fainted!*
Watch tier zoo you’d love em
@@Qwerty-fg1ou me too!
@@lost7149 they even show that stingray clip in particular
Human: the current dominant species
Orcas: catching up
Human: *hol' up, you aint supposed to do that*
More like we caught up. Arguably Orcas are still more dominant in their environment, nothing hunts orcas that lives in the water, humans are still regularly killed by wildlife.
Until humans run out of food to get in the artic or orca territory and start hunting them down
The stingray move reminded me of sea turtles closing their eyes while eating jellyfish.
Let's address the Orcas / Killer Whales naming controversy: Yes, "Killer Whales" might be a misleading pejorative name for the species. Yet apparently, the scientific name is "Orcinus Orca" in latin or "Killer Whale" in english. The scientists we've been in contact with and the studies that this video is based on use this term. However, there has been a trend to use the term Orca more frequently to avoid a negative connex. Which name would you use? Or what's the species' name in your language or region?
Orca in Mexico
Either in Philippines
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Saving these wonderful and smart animals makes me feel comfortable
I love Orcas, they saved me from a hammerhead, they accompanied me to safety. I have never felt so much love
Orcas are smart and try to make a good impression on humans
oh really? tell the whole story! orcas are my favorite animals, you dont hear much about interactions with humans, so share it!
How did this happen?
maybe they were full and just saving you for later...
@@michaelzlprime you mean the orca pod? there has never been an attack on a human by orcas in the wild. To the contrary there have been many cases where orcas have intervened to save a human life. There was another case in Chile recently. My experience is from 1996.
There's another maritime species currently turning ecosystems upside down. Lionfish are spreading across the world, taking over the Mediterranean Sea: ▶th-cam.com/video/380CE6sTLzk/w-d-xo.html
1:00 "Bowhead Whales, Narwhals, Arctic Seals, and of course, The Polar Bear Butt"
We kill off most of the fish in the oceans, Orcas looking for other sources of food in other places shouldn't be a surprise. That should have been the point of this video.
@Robert Blackford
I meant we kill off the most out of all other species by pollution or overfishing.
I don't know what the percentage of hunted/killed per (time period) fish as opposed to overall fish population for that period is though no. Even if I did I would need every marine predator's hunting statistics to make a correct comparison.
In any case my point was that we kill enough to change the orcas ecosystems
@@WGandH Who is we? Not me, I serve fish (seafood) maybe twice a month, usually a salmon fillet. So two fillet a month is a salmon per month or 12 salmon a year. There will be plenty of salmon for me and my family for generations if the other 7 billion salmon gobblers on this planet would go away.
Not even close to true.
I bet you think we have less trees than we did 100 hundred years ago.
Researchers said they went straight there line they knew where they were going. I'm guessing this isn't the first time it's happened. Sounded like the orcas knew if temperatures were right they could make it to that bay and have a nice meal.
@@percussion44 that’s so dumb
Here because Shirvan sent me and he wasn't wrong--great video
Thanks Shirvan and welcome to our channel Rob! 👋🏽
The Caspian report guy?
@@elhombredeoro955 yup
Facts I’m literally binging these videos. This is great editing 💯
Seeing this, I went to Shirvan lol.
3:23 that seal got yeeted from hell
3:04 “I like your cut G.”
Killer whales have never killed a human in the wild. We better not screw that up, they rule the oceans!
They are quite literally becoming an invasive species. They are not natural to the northern waters of the Arctic. Even in Newfoundland they were not known to be seen in the bays, it’s is only within the recent years that they have been spotted in large pods. They are also known for attacking people’s boat.
@@Zulfburht they are not invasive. They are 100% powered by their own minds. It's just so happens they are not just apex predators but also highy inteligent, so any chance they get, whether credted by other species or by nature, they'll take it
Who are you to judge nature? What's next, you'll advocate whalling the orcas?
People are the smartest and dumbest things on this planet. Smart enough to build their own environment but stupid enough not to understand that nature CHANGES and if something is lost, something else takes its place
@@LudwigVaanArthans complete nonsense. You're saying that like nature has determined this route, instead of the truth that WE'RE causing these problems from nature's and are in the second great extinction because of what we're doing to the Earth. I'm tired of people like you pretending this is some "natural" change in the world when it's entirely human based.
@@LudwigVaanArthans you need to educate yourself on why and how the Earth is changing because of us, and it's not to our benefit either, let alone the animals we're taking with us. Here are just a few reasons!!
Meat is destroying our planet, as is dairy. We have one billion cows on the Earth, a single one produces 70kg-100kg of methane per year. If you're unaware how methane works, here is a description:
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH₄. It is a group-14 hydride and the simplest alkane, and is the main constituent of natural gas
methane that is released into the atmosphere before it is burned is harmful to the environment. Because it is able to trap heat in the atmosphere, methane contributes to climate change.
Ruminant livestock - cattle, sheep, buffalo, goats, deer and camels - have a fore-stomach (or rumen) containing microbes called methanogens, which are capable of digesting coarse plant material and which produce methane as a by-product of digestion (enteric fermentation): this methane is released to the atmosphere
Wanna know why there's so many droughts in America? That's because fresh water is given to dairy cows, we're running out of fresh water because of this and even dairy farmers agree it isn't sustainable at all. 90% of what is cut down in the Amazon is fed to livestock, the Amazon rainforest indirectly feeds phytoplanktons that produces 70% of oxygen. Not only is it being cut down to meet the demands of livestock, it's being burned down too for the sake of cattle grazing (of which children are being sent to hospital with respiratory issues due to the continuous smoke coming from burning it). We've now amassed 250 deadzones in the ocean due to overfishing and on top of that, livestock farms are notorious and unregulated in dumping untreated faeces into oceans and rivers because it's cheaper, this causes phisteria, something that also kills phytoplanktons as well as fish. The fishing methods destroy entire ecosystems by casting long next across miles and scarping it across the sea bed to catch whatever they can. 90% is byproduct and not what they were fishing for, the method drowns and kills these animals and are simply discarded back into the ocean, this includes sharks, dolphins, turtles and many more fish variants. We literally cannot breath without a healthy ocean, but apparently consuming meat is more important than sustaining the ecosystems that exist within the ocean, without the ocean we can't survive as a species.
Dairy takes up most of our fresh water use (which we're running out of) a dairy cow can be expected to drink up to 8-9 gallons of fresh water per day just to produce milk. It's incredibly unsustainable and cows are being selected as more important to give water to than actual human beings, because people want to suck on cow tits.
Expect far more pandemics like the coronavirus to come with how we consume meat. There's already been an influx of viruses created by the squalid conditions livestock are kept in, swine flu, foot and mouth disease, bird flu and far much more. And the biggest reason we are running out of antibiotics? Livestock. Livestock are fed full of antibiotics because of the god awful and unclean conditions they are kept in. With the meat and dairy you consume those antibiotics enter your system, giving the chance for viruses and diseases to mutate and become immune to said antibiotics.
I could list a hundred more reasons why consuming meat is destroying us as a species as well as the Earth we live on. 51% of our carbon footprint is created by animals agriculture.
Watch Earthlings and Dominion. There are no more excuses to take part and consume what this industry supplies. You've all been brainwashed to look the other way and not consider how your eating habits are not only destroying you, but the Earth itself.
This information is easily looked up and I suggest it because it's very important and this kind of information is always hidden from us. G
@@fawnieee and the earth will change after we're gone. Just like it did before us. Don't kill yourself if you feel responsible though.
I hope more people would watch this and other videos from this channel.
You guys deserve more viewers. I hope more people would wake up to the current situation of our planet and help one another to figure out a solution.
For the meantime, I will do my best to graduate as a Veterinarian and hopefully focus in the marine wildlife.
Can't wait to help out :)
Awesome that you're studying vetmed focusing on marine wildlife! 👏🏻
The world needs experts like you spreading the word about the importance of conservation projects and saving natural habitats. Thanks for always watching our videos! We're trying our best!
Good luck for your studies! 😉
@@terramater Thank you so much hearing this from you, it's really encouraging :)
@@terramater Ah yes, we must interrupt Darwinism because humans are the gods of Earth! Helicopter parenting has produced enough problems, stop thinking we can "save the world" like that. Climate change is just the outward belief that humanity is so powerful and godlike that we can destroy the Earth merely be existing. It's narcissistic and complete horse shit. The Fukashima Earthquake was so powerful it increased the Earth's axial tilt, humans might as well be ants in the face of the power of nature.
Scientists created the Atomic bomb, scientists pioneered the modern use of oil, scientists created plastics and rockets. "You can't fix the problems of today with the same thinking that created them". If you really believed the horse shit you spewed, you would live like the Inuit. But you don't, so you're just a hypocrite.
Isn’t it crazy how little is documented about jellyfish taking over the entire ocean
Start writing jellyfish recipes because that's all we will have soon
disney needs to make a movie about this, it would be a perfect way to bring awarness to everyone because adults watch disney too
Disney's not interested unless the Orca is Trans.
@@davidrox4591 They're black/white so... they represent diversity maybe?
@@davidrox4591 Disney only cares about the woke shit at this point rather than making actual GOOD movies 😂
Orca's may be feasting now, but it seems like they may be too effective and end up wiping out their prey, and thus, eventually, themselves, victims of their own success.
Orcas, suffering from success
Yeah. Sounds very familiar.
Orca can eat anything, if a species dies another takes it's place. And they'll eat that.
Species dieing out isn't new. There's more species that died out than exist today.
Change orca to human in your comment and read it
They should start becoming omnivore and build their own aquatic farms
:o That was my expression throughout! Amazing footage and informative, I am always intrigued! And the northern lights in the end :)
Kudos to the editor! 🌞⭐
Glad you enjoyed it!
And thanks I'll deliver Philip the Kudos! 😉
3:06 smacked that sting ray like the money came up short
I truly love orcas. Their intelligence. Their awareness. Still sad about the Narwals though :(
Agreed, it is sad for the narwals but orcas are a truly fascinating species!
@Terra_the _Nightingale There are more Narwhals in the world than Orcas. There are 75,000 Narwhals left in the world, and only 50,000 Orcas left in the world. That is why Orcas are to be worried about more than the Narwhals they prey on, cause Orcas are more endangered than their narwhal prey.
@@ShiningGalaxy01 I will choose to worry about both no matter the numbers considering the growing state of our oceans, I am inclined to worry more for orcas because they are my favorite animal lol. I’ll still feel bad for the narwhals though. Alas
I’m so proud my daughter is wanting to be a marine biologist, she loves ALL animals, and we need to know more about the oceans and there lives down under just like above those pretty blue sky’s! Thank u for the video!
@wckdkoolbtxh it sounds like your life didnt turn out the way you wanted it too
wckdkoolbtxh there are tons of careers in marine biology. Even tho, whats wrong with going to school to learn how to care for animal beings? Humans need to understand that what they do in life affects other living beings. We have become narcissistic, selfish, and uncaring to our fellow animals.
@CryptoCracker shut up dont take yourself that serious
@@mynameisnotimportant2854 You mean so narcissistic that they believe that humans are so powerful that we can destroy the Earth by just existing? You mean that kind of narcissistic?
CryptoCracker your mom should have that mindset
Watching ur videos makes me understand why they say “ Nature is unpredictable and that is what is it’s beauty “. I’m so happy I found this channel as it has amazing videography and amazing content to watch abt nature . As I love and enjoy knowing the depths of nature.
Thank your for your words, your comment made our day! ♥️
Welcome aboard! 🤗
This was very entertaining and informative i love hearing about whales that are not in the limelight like Bowhead or Southern Wright whales etc🐋🐳👍
One thing that the affected areas need is :: the humpback whale. Its long heavy front flippers have knobbles like knuckles on, very useful in a fight against orcas. And sometimes, big barnacles called _Coronula diadema_ grow on those knobbles and act as natural knuckledusters / brass knuckles, useful when defending their young or other small whales against orcas.
Orka in dutch. But killer whale is propriate, they hunt everything! Sad to see the narwhale being pushed like that. And then the natives are hunting them more. Isn't this situation like the mountain gorilla? Where they are pushed more to the top? But the narwhals aswell. They can go max north but not further.
Its sad people start hating on the species that succeeds and feel bad for the one on the bottom
jeremy I said the same thing to my neighbor after i killed her dog.
@@jeremy-ws1rb Who said anything about hate? it's about empathy. Sad some humans don't have it.
@@jeremy-ws1rb There should be a balance, yet we as humans are breaking it.
They hunt what they can idiot, the name killer whale makes them look like vicious killers
the way the orcas work together to feed IS FREAKING AMAZING. such smart animals.
Hi @Terra Mater! Loved the song choices. Mind sharing the titles of the music you used in this video? Thanks in advance
Hi Dan, nice to hear that you like the music.
I copied you the titles in our description. 🎶
At first I felt bad for the stingray, then remembered what happened to Steve Irwin
We like hunting narwhals. Narwhals don't like being hunted.
Christopher Phillips ... human beings don’t like being hunted.
I mean a guys gotta get his protein
Bryant Nojang eat an egg or two or three.
@@claymore4496 but what about the chickens?
Bryant Nojang eat them as they are not a wild endangered species. If you want to breed narwhals in captivity like cows fine but don’t decimate them in the wild. Sustained ecological balance.
When I graduate, I will save all kinds of whales
Because it is wonderful and smart
I want others to see this amazing channel
Oh wow, that sound's like a plan!
Let's save the whales! 🐋
God bless you
Just avoid the killer whales. They’re invasive enough
Zulfburht “invasive” no they’re just adapting to their environment lmao
Zulfburht they are gangsters 😂😂
3:05 That's scarily amazing.
Those inuit will have to hunt an orca once in a while if they don't want to remember narwhals only in the elders' stories.
Exactly what I was thinking.
no bro they are endangered
(and protected so its illegal)
@@user-qg7fe2ls9n aren't Orcas least concern lmao
@@goofygoober5270 are they
@@goofygoober5270 oh. they arent except for 1 species but they’re still protected
this is a great video! thank you so much for this.
I hope your channel will grow bigger and bigger guys, and also I hope you'll have more videos about narwhals, whale sharks and also beluga. I found it so rare to find documentaries about them.
thanks Terra Mater!🙋🏻♀️
Thank you so much!
Currently we're working on another whales video so stay tuned! 🐋
Lmao that hunter wont be smiling when the orcas drive narwals to the brink of extinction and they have nothing to hunt
No, buy he WILL be smiling when the world finally learns that the only answer to many of the worst problems confronting humanity is for us to live a more natural life.......
nothing to hunt except all the other things they hunt plus orcas.
Nice vids and your ads convinced me to watch your videos as I like informative videos about science
I read a comment about cougars... old guy was talking about being a kid in the 1920s-30s period.. They took bounties on the cats.. pushed then back into the very highlands.
He said. ..they weren't docile... harmless big kitties.. The WERE ..Mountain LIONS. And now after many years.. ..the ones who ran from decimation..are BACK.. They are being AGAIN what they always were. It just took a bunch of generations for that to happen..
Now... the Orcas are into New territory... and their numbers are swelling.. and they are just being what they were... until we crushed their food sources.
But they're back.. and they ain't apologizing that your yacht can be easily sunk.
I remember when I was a kid I love all this about ocean but in that time we don’t have cable TV or Internet so I see all this in the National Geographic magazine...
Beautiful film, very informative. But orca moving north, ecosystems adapting and changing, this is the natural growth that propels species into new and amazing environments. Spiral out, keep going.
Great that you like our arctic video! :)
Except we're being responsible for it.
The change is natural however the rage at which it’s changing is not, most scientists agree we are headed towards a climate disaster
@@kotaniyumiko Climate has nothing to do with it. Man is the problem and always will be. Dead killer whales have been found with chemical compounds and mercury in their skin and internal organs which will kill them faster then any climate disaster.
@@AlexanderNevermind68 Climate has all to do with it tho...and by man's fault. This situation is only one on the bunch related to global warming in the artic
In that situation you have to take action to prevent orcas from attacking narwhals. Narwal are endangered and orcas are not so if you have to fire warning shots to get them to turn around that's what you have to do.
Orcas and bottle nose dolphins are on another level out there in the oceans. So awesome to watch
such beautiful creatures
Whales are really amazing!
@@terramater yeah.
All marine creatures are awesome also whales🐋🐳🐳🐋🐋🐳......
I'm pretty convinced that some of the smartest species on the planet like dolphins etc if they had hands like us and able to communicate as effectively as humans they would have developed some sort of civilization.
Mole Men
Maybe, not everyone agrees that the creation of "civilization" was a good move.
They already have. There are many different communities of dolphins and orcas across the oceans, each with their own cultures and language
Getting drone footage of this would be amazing
The way the seal flipped is too funny.
3:25
I love Orcas, they have culture and languages. They are an ‘alien’ intelligence. I can’t wait until we can talk to them.
they are matriarchal society animals, imagine when we go there and say hello, they become panic and scream in Orcarish "MUM!!!!", and their mother will come and whisper to them "Don't talk to strangers." Yes, they are indeed very conservative. (They never try food that their parents didn't teach them to eat)
I personally hate orcas but we all have our own opinions. I hate them as much as humans which is a lot.
agreed! They really do have a level of culture & language that most people today can't even start to grasp is possible
@@LuCa8_ why you hate them? are you a stingray?
Purger Of Heretics this guuuuuuy. hahaha. im sure you don’t even know enough about orcas to hate them but okay hater
The Orcas are like the sealed off demons finally being able to feast on the flesh of the living beings that they sought after.
We saw the Orcas hunt just like wolves up in BC . They skillfully cut several dolphins out of large school, pushed them into the shore surrounding them and eating them one by one. It was amazing
We live in an amazing time. We get the best of everything even if we are bound to lose some because of our own success as a species.
Like the orca, I too yell at and slap my food before eating it.
You slap burgers? 😜
@@oneshothunter9877 Yes. I especially slap burgers... With both hands. Why do you think they're flat? Burgers start their careers as big meatballs, until some overzealous meatslapper - with pectorals twitching with excitement and overcharged freedom energy - claps it into a burger with one fell swoop.
@@buckstarchaser2376
Haha! That part I didn't think about when I asked about slapping burgers.
Your answer just made me laugh, "yell at and slap my food"...
Thanks for the laugh. 😁
I REQUEST YOU TO MAKE A VIDEO ON HOW WE CAN TAKE SIMPLE MEASURE INDIVISUALLY FOR HELPING THE PLANET HEAL
Great idea!
Have you watched our "What Can I Do?" playlist yet?
We're sharing simple tips on how all of us can help the plant by choosing a local, diverse and mostly plant based diet. 🌱
This is a mute point. Individually we stand no chance at all. Politicians in Norway virtue signal all the time, making laws that destroys our economy, with nothing to show for it. Real change only takes place at the top, and lets be honest, powers that be, are not going to change. It just futile.
@@MylilPwny85 This is simply an illusion. We then by that logic might well as do nothing at all. Every action an human does has a consequence, for the good or bad. When I decide to not eat animals anymore, that means agriculture looses another customer. When enough individuals do that, eventually there is a threshold were making animal food is no longer profitable and they have too change the game.
We have the illusion that Elites and politicans follow their own rules. But Trump didn't get into office because of a coop. 17 million Americans thought it was a good bet to have Trump in office.
Our action do matter. The biggest fault of humans are thinking we have no means to change the world at all. That thought will only make the powerful people more powerful, and you more weaker.
So the mindset that you are into is only feeding your hopelessness and isnt doing the world actual good. There are always just a bunch of people who change the world. People outside th system are pushing for things that the majority doesn't see yet. But eventually the bigger crowds will go with you.
Politicans only do what small or majorities want. That is the nature of politics. Thinking that what you do will not change anything is making sure that that indeed will stay true. Break that chain.
Indivual actions always lead to collective change.
It's a natural cycle of the Earth, so sit back and relax.
@@aaldrikbakker Its okay, you are free to do as you want, as long as i dont have to pay for it. I will never support any kind of regulation that only serves to move money around and not actually aid the issue. Isnt it funny when celebs fly around the world in their private jets only to tell everybody else to change. So many hypocrites fighting for climate change and making it harder for everyone else. Making everything cost alot more for normal folks. Its futile and filled with useless solutions.
8:03, and yet men are not ready for wild fire season, astounding.
Gosh man this channel has high quality informational content
Subscribing now
Thank you for your kind words! We are glad you enjoy our videos 😊🌍
Historically in Earths history, climate change is inevitable
but we are rapidly accelerating it - which is not natural
@josh We aren’t “rapidly” accelerating it. The industrial revolution was a few centuries ago, yeah? And the earth had been around for 4.6 billion years? How can you come up with accurate data depicting that WE are the problem when the data we’ve collected makes up less than 0.000004% of earths history
Less than 10,000 years ago, glaciers taller than the Empire State Building covered as far as Detroit. Considering that those were gone by the time the native Americans settled, I’d say we’re on pace
@@burtmacklin1939 you have no idea what you're talking about
@@prizma45 Do you?
i like how this nature channel replies to comments
We equally love getting feedback from our audience.
Genius! Literally a genius animal. Such advanced hunting tactics. And I would bet they've been using these tactics long before humans knew how to throw rocks.
The way orcas hunt is really fascinating incredible animals
When watching above.the Whales are like Black Hawk Helicopter
On a wildly different topic, the Inuit language is strangely beautiful to me
Loving the 'scarface' soundtrack!
Thanks to these scientists and their work we've been given a moment to try and once again steer history on a more sustainable course . This is yet another reason we have to do more about climate change. Subtle but it's all trickles from a dam about to break. If we do not act I fear for the narwhals, Enuit people and the killer whales .
Seeing them hunt the narwhals like that gave me chills...
3:03 one orca wacthing the other playing with sting ray
We coughed on camera a young orca getting his PhD test about Ray stunning
Imagine just merrily swimming in the water and then being backhanded by an orca. That slap is too much poor sting ray 😭
That orca swimming upside down was so cool
Looks and sounds like the scientist is completely out of touch with the Inuit around him. LOL First the hunter says we like the orcas, they make hunting easier, then the scientist comes on and says he dose know if the natives can adapt. Totally disconnected there. WOW. Funnny tho. lol
Local hunters might spot a benefit right now, but the scientist points out that in long-term the changing eco system in the arctic could be a real change of life for the Inuit. But of course nobody knows yet exactly.
Let the Inuit hunt the orca on route to the nursery if they are as smart as we suspect they will learn quick enough after all what preys on an orca
@@nathanhamilton6998 you mean let inuit herd narwhals? that sounds great! First step towards the sea.
@Dieter Gaudlitz this nursing ground is just for a small percentage of narwhal population, how's it the beginning of extinction?
@Dieter Gaudlitz its not orcas the problem at all ! First in many region of where narwhal live there only a few orcas (population with the max of 200) and 2 orcas always hunt like this and always hunt narwhal but the cause of the declining of the narwhal is the overhunting of their species BY HUMANS
I love your videos but I am disappointed that you put "killer whales" in the title instead of Orcas, which I think would suit this channel better.
Thanks for always watching our videos!
We used "killer whales" because the scientific studies (you can find the sources above in our description) preferred "killer whales".
But we totally agree with you that they're amazing animals.
The scientists themselves used killer whales instead of orcas. I do prefer orcas but it was right naming them killer whales
Yes, I am a whaler, i eat dolphins, i try kill them humanely and do it sustainably and not take more than needed. not commercial.
hate me all u want, never gonna change, for me whale/dolphin meat is normal, like u eat pigs, cow etc and people in india think eatiing that is weird and an outrage.
but lets do facts here:
Killer whale is correct english term, since "orca" is totally in correct since its a binomial nomencleture, and is the species. u can NOT do that without putting in genera/genus) Orcinius. genus always capital first letter, species NEVER! many animals can share same species name, like "orca" but NEVER share same genus and species at same time, so Orcinus orca or O. orca is taxonomically correct. since there could be a H. orca, the O. orca is VERY important.
secondly, stop correcting from "its not a whale but a dolphin" it sounds retarded because its so much deeper. in ceataceans (whales) there are families and subfamilies. dolphins belong to Delphinanea, family. thats a family in ceataceans(whales in common speak) so yes they are whales! Blue whales and Bowhead are not only not in same genus they not even in same family. as big a difference between them as between O. orca and the blue whales(cant remember their binomial nomencleture, i am spider person, not marine person(spiders belong in entomology) So point, they are whales!
another point. all domesticated animals started as wild caught and wild animals. keeping big whales like killer whales in captivity should only be done if u have a bio setup, with natural prey(live prey) and not chlorinated water but bio flora and a HUGE tank and a good pod. then its okay :) But NO ONE could ever afford that! so it cant be done
setting them free? 1. most will die, they cant even hunt! 2. most are hybrids. their are subspecies in the O. orca, and seaworld etc have mixed the subspecies and we do NOT want to pollute if one survives and crossbreeds! period! keep animal bloodlines clean! enough animals are destroyed, just look at snake hobby!
attacks in wild DO OCCUR! and they are violent! search "hans+surfer+california+72+killer whale+bite" and u can see many sites with several attacks. NON fatal YET but bloody and serious! so stop the myth about no attacks in the wild. and just because there is no recorded fatality does not mean it has not happened. MANY people die each year from snake bites but officially maybe 100-200 world wide die because no official report or cause of death is done. same with shark attacks. so there might be more attacks even fatal ones which has not been recorded and hence not in official statistics.
The music sounds like it is from APM Music.
Terra Mater can you please tell us which songs you used?
"hangs in the balance"....and what exactly was it like for the Orca during the height of the last ice age? with waters getting warmer, what species in warmer climates will take advantage of the new areas to feed and breed? maybe the inuit willl have to go further north as well. were they always where they are now?
From 9:22 on wards, the Inuit look more or less the same a Japanese. Especially the kids in 9:32. Mind you Japanese faces have a wide variety depending on where you go in Japan, but all the faces I see in this video, I've seen their equivalents multiple times all over Japan. They sorta resemble northern Chinese as well. That Ice shield was no joke!
kind of ironic when you realize china hates japan
NARWHALES NARWHALES SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN, CAUSING A COMMOTION CUZ THEY ARE SO AWESOME.
They're really awesome!
Thanks for hindi subtitles. I understand English perfectly but gesture is much appreciated. Subbed.
To understand the future it is important to look at the past. What was the effect on the narwhal population and the Inuit during the 1920's when similar summer ice extent was recorded?
I Love Whales especially Orcas. 🥰
Protect the whales. 🐳🐋💞
Stay Awesome.😉✌
bad news for you,
orcas are actually dolphins
and they hunt whales
atleast they are awesome
@Umbrella Corp. Orcas are dolphins, not whales.
Love how the scientist thinks he knows best for the indigenous arctic people! Inuit: _...we love killer whale they help us hunt narwhal..._ scientist: _...loss of pack ice will change generational hunting habits of Inuit who won't be able to adapt!_
I remember being 10 years old and seeing the manipulative advertising, the consumerism, and bet my best friend that in 15 years the environmental collapse would be the world's #1 priority. Unfortunately that was 30 years ago. I can't imagine anything more depressing than growing up in a world where you know we're killing everything beautiful and you are mocked for it.
My sister and me always make the joke that killer whales should be made to get a hunting permit because they’re scarily smart at catching prey.
I think the old man doesn’t understand that if this continues most likely his grandchildren by the time they are able to hunt there will be no more narwhals to hunt
what the fuck do you expect him to do about it? he's living a traditional life. pretty sure you've contributed more to global warning in your few years on earth than this old man has in his lifetime.
these people have a different mindset to us...they are at 'one' with the orca....if they had a "civilised" mindset like westerner's...those orca's would be dead...beautiful beautiful people...enough said..!
@@russellking9762 its not that i dont blame inuit or other thing but some inuit are responsible for the declining of the narwhal ! Yes i said it ! Some inuit kill massivily narwhals ! orcas have hunt narwhals for 1 MILLIONS YEARS and the inuits it was only since 1000 years !!! Sorry for saying that but the population of orcas in the artic water (Canada and Greenland) are estimated to be 12 TO 200 its a ridiculous number and it clearly DONT affect the narwhals !
@@theren2486 ok...but let's keep our focus on all the plastic and other shit such as drift nets long lines dioxin's and the myriad of other way's we kill the ocean and it's wildlife with...while we kick back and chill watching our oversized plasma tv's passing judgement on these people...leave them alone..!
@@russellking9762 i agree with you
It’s called life people. The world Changes. Things die. Others thrive. Wake up
Your iq is in single digits mate
3:25 god damn this dude playing with this food.
The seal be like "Oh nawwww"