Nick Petrichow

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224 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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Nature Podcast · Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So this is just showing the degree to which they have this sort of intelligent and collaborative.

and cooperative behaviour.

Well, it's a fair point, and this may be a two-off because the researchers did video it again.

So after seeing this first behaviour, so they have seen it at least twice in the same sort of area.

Whether other orcas in different parts of the world do it, they don't know.

But at least in this area, which was just off the coast of California, orcas have been seen to do it at least twice.

In order to get other footage to maybe see if they

do it or just to understand what orcas are doing a little bit more.

One of the things they discuss in their paper is the growth of tourism and how many more people have access to underwater drones that could potentially capture footage.

So that is something that they could potentially look to and maybe do some sort of citizen science sort of thing.

However they do caution that that would have to be approached carefully because tourism can also be

be very disruptive for marine ecosystems and for the orcas and that sort of thing.

Mm.

So maybe there's some way that scientists and, you know, regular citizens who happen to have fancy cameras could work together in order to see this a bit more.

But yeah, whether this is a behaviour, I'm not sure, but they've seen it at least twice.

And as always, if you wanna get in touch with us, if you wanna tell us how you feel about the orca smashing a sunfish, then you can.

You can reach out to us on social media, we're at nature podcast, or you can send us a good old fashioned email.

We're on podcast at nature dot com.

I'm Nick Petra Chow.

Nature Podcast · Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Hello and welcome to the Briefing Chat Podcast, the Friday show where we talk about a couple of articles that have been highlighted in the Nature Briefing.

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