[CINC] Gray Whales/Orcas

[Mr Zalophus]

The journal article I cited in the latest edition of the Condor Express
newsletter mentions this exact response to *orca*'s as one of several
hypotheses regarding the Risso-Gray interactions we've been seeing and
photographing over the past month and a half...lots of Gray's rolling
around.  If you are not on the recipient list for the newsletter, you can
either let me know to add you, OR, better yet, you can see the newsletter
online at:

www.issuu.com/condorexpress

Best fishes,
Bob Perry
Condor Express

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Karen Sullivan <gksully at pacbell.net>wrote:

>  This article has this quote.  Wonder if the rolling gray sighted in the
> channel was doing this in reaction to the Risso's?
>
> "On another occasion, we saw a gray whale juvenile that was harassed by
> killer whales roll repeatedly (sideways) as it moved rapidly towards shore,
> which prevented the killer whales from maintaining a grip on its fins and
> flukes and allowed it to escape," they wrote."
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* John Kuizenga <jkuizenga at linkline.com>
> *To:* CINC <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org>
> *Sent:* Wed, February 16, 2011 3:24:10 PM
> *Subject:* [CINC] Gray Whales/Orcas
>
> FYI,  Interesting article from the Alaska Dispatch re Orcas caching
> recently killed Gray Whale Calves in shallow water near the Aleutians, to
> come back an retrieve and presumably eat at a later date.  JK
>
>
>
> http://www.alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/arctic/8501-killer-whales-ambushing-gray-whales-in-aleutians
>
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