When Life Imitates SyFy of the Day: A killer whale was spotted battling a shiver of sharks off the coast of Blue Cliffs Beach in Tuatapere, New Zealand.
Eyewitnesses said the whale was herding the sharks towards Blue Cliffs’ shore. One of the sharks involved in the melee ended up getting beached.
According to a marine scientist with the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the whale’s behavior is consistent with a “classic orca hunting tactic.”
“I’d be picking that there would be several more killer whales in a staggered line out to sea from the beach there,” says Clinton Duffy, “so that whale that you see in the surf zone there is probably in there flushing fish offshore for the other ones to catch.”
