Rare Video Shows Killer Whales Hunting Down a Shark

A drone amateur videotape showed with the help of a drone a shark being hunted by four killer whales. These rare images immediately went viral in Australia.

Off the coast of Cronulla, south of Sydney, four false killer whales pursued the shark until tiring it out. The leader of the pod then attacked the shark, grabbing it in its mouth — and it was all captured in Kataoka’s video.

Rare scenes captured off Cronulla show sharks being hunted by whales. @AdeneCassidy7 #7News https://t.co/wv7z7BWglR

— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) May 10, 2016

Making the video that much more rare is the fact that false killer whales aren’t seen around Australia too often. The Australian reported that false killer whales prefer deeper, warmer water and tropical oceans.

Bruno Kataoka never expected to capture rare video that professional wildlife videographers would envy when he sent his drone flying over the ocean near Sydney, Australia.
But when he zeroed in on a pod of false killer whales, large members of the dolphin family, he received a surprising treat. The false killer whales were hunting a juvenile shark.

“It’s amazing,” Fantasea marine biologist Georgina Wood told 7 News. “That kind of footage is just so rare to catch.”

“It was an exciting moment,” he told 7 News. “National Geographic guys [wait] months to get such a thing, and we just happened to be there at the right moment at the right time.”

“We generally see a lot of action from humpbacks here in Sydney, especially during these winter months,” Wood told 7 News.

The humpbacks will be visiting soon. The official whale-watching season kicks off in two weeks. Some 20,000 humpback whales are expected to pass Sydney.