The matriarch orca might be trying to adopt the baby pilot whale.
A female orca was captured on camera caring for a baby pilot whale in the first ever known case of its kind.
“The orca was swimming with the pilot whale calf in the echelon position, which means the calf was swimming right behind the pectoral fin of the orca,” lead author“The echelon position allows a calf to make fewer tail fluke movements than when swimming on its own and overcome physical limitations during high-speed travel — in other words, the calf is ‘carried’ by the pressure wave created by the adult’s larger body.
According to the paper, the same female orca was seen interacting with a pod of long-finned pilot whales about a year later, but the calf could not be seen.
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