Researchers believe the orca may have tried to adopt the newborn pilot whale
HALIFAX - A Halifax-based biologist who helped to document the first recorded case of an orca caring for the offspring of another species says the finding sheds light on a complex animal relationship.
The team’s findings have been recently published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, in the article “First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf.” “This is how we know it’s a caring or nurturing behaviour and it doesn’t mean she wants to save for a snack later,” she said.
“I’d love to be able to ask her why,” Zwamborn said of the killer whale’s adoption of this pilot whale offspring.
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