Space Daily August 24, 2026 • 16:58

Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can't fully expla - Space Daily

For years, humpback whales have been mysteriously intervening in orca hunts to save animals they'll never meet again—a pattern so bizarre that marine biologists are still searching for a plausible explanation.

It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of killer whales in Antarctica is chasing a Weddell seal that’s taken refuge on a small ice floe. The orcas s… [+7987 chars]

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Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can't fully expla - Space Daily

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