Amazing Orca Killer Whales in The Wild [full Wildlife Documentary]

amazing orca killer whales in the wild [full wildlife documentary] the unchallenged sovereign first ocean today by the or killer and their complex societies extend back 20 with but this our modern society now threatens the year joint jean-michel Cousteau when his team the investigation times-mirror in the water and discover that the workers fight for survival back now our home isham Michelle cousteau ocean looming Eve she was a wonderful well when I was first out here had no VHF radio had no radar team have a compass and once became an lost in amman telling us in a glass of milk the skeptic anything like it here and I found this big cruise ship headed for me anyway need and her family the next 20 minutes came out so close to my bell Wisconsin place for to me engine and Newtown 71 have them and after a few minutes I could just barely see something and always an island and I'm pop down and there wasn't a glorious sunset and in the clear and I kept waiting for Nieves family to come out and the on but they never again and now s for me was like worlds colliding trying to figure out what had gone on that she turned around the stayed by my boat and then when the I was safe she turned around again at that moment I believed all the stories about dolphins pushing sailors to shore I don't know what it is about these wells back a do things like that and everyone studying these wells sees the same they are counterparts in the sea most complex marine species on the planet come the ruler of the ocean male orcas can be nine times 32 feet long with towering dorsal fin six feet tall but crowned with a smaller curved trip it may be the female the park they're the most widely distributed marine mammal in the world their realm extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic largest the Dolphins porkers also called killer whales number fewer than a hundred thousand world line and finding them take jean-michel Cousteau and his team across the globe accompanied in times by his son Fabian & Order Salim constantine treatable northern and southern hemispheres as they seek out killer whales in the Pacific Ocean the team will discover that people in organs sure surprising similarities even similar meet a fact made clear by their experiences with GEICO most famous killer whale the team will also learn how some the characteristics we consider strictly human like language and culture may have also evolved my killer whales bill travel among group supporters or a similar and as different as we are from each other their journey begins in the pacific northwest where workers have been reviewed by native people for millennia study by scientists for decades and where our story of the complicated relationship between workers and people begins what we're trying to do is to make the connection between humans and nature comparing humans pen pockets the other dominant species in the ocean we are the dominant species on land and we all Deepak on the same team the the killer will be workers is such a powerful animal in terms of its appeal to people it it captivates our imagination because we know that their large dolphins and they're very intelligent they live in very social groups much like our own John Ford is a pioneer in or go acoustics the first scientist identified I likes in their calls and to change or beliefs even and alive only been involved stunning orcas for around thirty years things have changed so drastically in our attitude towards and this incredible animal the attitude at that time %uh said these were dangerous animals I the threat to people a threat to the livelihood of fishermen world and I was caught up in that when I was young growing up on bank around here we go out fishing and a group of workers would go by and we would be terrified the if they swam under the boat because that was the feeling that these were dangerous animals on our coast in the mid 1960s to mid 1970s it was alive capture fishery for workers and they were sent to aquariums all over the world I actually got a job at the Vancouver Aquarium and soon became a whale trainer in the early seventies and got to know them in that context and and they were fascinating animals have course at even then it was quite controversial holding them in captivity but I I realize we had so much to learn from them or kiss her very large complex branch and to honor first course I have been ok a brain which was in a jar sharp turnaround I wish really quite a managed so the first question that came to me worse on does this way out do with the fact bring still question ask I now is forty years ago when you worked with as a man of my captivity 1967 behavioral research within or crack her am scanner as a banker cranberry they want richer shower party to study their what did you learn from her I mostly I think I i learned that this was a very considerable paste keep aramark will be that was around the time actually that doctor michael Baker died in 1990 and was very much our mentor and the true pioneer whose vision led to the photo identification she started learning about the Society said these wells within around our calls and that these were incredibly complex animals worth very elaborate social relationships you push to bring an end to implications are back together with fish social shot right in your own just an immediate danger putting her in a concrete tank trying to complete the shirt in rush-hour commuter kind pressure enormously unfair and inappropriate change be doing fun at the time you through the close contact with captivity that we begin to learn about them one at a time the story of one whale in particular named k Co stern our passion and raised in during questions about captivity cake I was captured in 1979 Iceland and became 10 136 work is taken into captivity since 1961 but he did not become one of the more than 100 have died there 42 killer whales live remain in captivity captured at age 22 and eventually sent to Mexico City kiko was breathing world smog stare a master in the ocean at seven thousand feet above sea level in the artificial seawater a shallow pool where he entertained the crowns the tanglewood lived his life in poor health swimming in circles except for one thing he became a movie star as Willie he was free to ten million film going children but in reality k call went nowhere the stress of his environment caused a skin disease which spread as his health seriously deteriorated the real well slowly dying in Kaikohe had to be moved when it was learned in Kaikohe still captive millions of children demanding his freedom and spontaneous movement was started to free the sick where comes almost donated him for the unprecedented experiment of reintroducing him into the wild and the Oregon Coast Aquarium customized approval for his care suddenly in reality a free in Kaikohe became far more interesting than the moon as kinkel began a long and complicated journey toward freedom ultimately proofreading for cake been accepted into a part of wild Wales since workers lived their entire lives in tightly connected social groups where all members are related to each other it's now understood the best chance for kiko would be to find his mother it very much is a matriarchal society your matrimonial in them everybody in the group is related through female descent two other a female ancestor individual stay with their mother grandmothers for the whole life and it took some years to me understand that because it is very unusual in that the large adult males never leave the group the bond between a mature male and his mother is very very strong the I know that eat the wealthy came tearing apart with the matriarch what happened when she passed away evenly had two sons note no daughters and those two males one around Hansen Island four weeks and didn't survive her death a very long time generally the males will join their sister's family but they they become a loose satellite never again have the bomb that they had with her mother it's a unique social system orcas a very conservative animal basically you only %uh socialize with somebody who your mother introduced you to the resident populations on this coast early very clearly divided socially into two different groups in northern residents 240 Wales 16 pods southern residents around 90 Wales three parts quite a bit smaller what's really interesting we don't really understand this but they never mix then we have overlaying that transients the Manhunters they don't mix with the residents but they will often mixed with other transmits and then occasion we have these offshore Wales and they don't mix with these others either so we have these whales that in in many ways are just focused on their very familiar neighboring groups that are up the same lifestyle it's a pattern strangely familiar much like you meant rocks existing near each other but separate which languages and behaviors learn passed on for generations we define it as culture and for both humans and orcas different cultures exist among the same species the edge dollars point and a book value up the New Zealand or crashed and I just saw a completely different from the Pacific Northwest night had this paradigm that that was how to walk away around the world today they had a maitre let me know society and state in very I'm strongly bonded grapes and that there was another population he fit on marine mammals well it turns out here that New Zealand or chrome moving around between groups they feed on fish shacks rise and marine mammals acoustic a the different I have a good Kiwi 20 s like my days and that looks like they moving big distances compared to the animals at the I got them traveling an average of 100 to 150 kilometers a day and I think that's one of the things that makes me mad okay different cultures even 9am some i havent texted you suddenly became for disappearing stable and social groups that we're looking at now for the jewish asking to be rich if you look at this society and understand that this is Ian Poulter over a very long period of time you realize that you're looking at a at a successful society file loss the challenge for him would be enormous since strong social bonds may actually define what it means to be an orc at the time no one knew how to free a captive orcas lose a new frontier two trainers like Steve Claussen for two years and jean-michel became involved in the effort and struck a cause a symbol of more than just one whale for curator Nolan hardy them how far picco was from awhile dorka we're trying to teach kato to not only work for us within the school so we can take better care than but we need to let him become a key well again we need on training our goal all along has been to give him control of his life were inactive party especially since you here by myself but the ideas from left him for me this decision what he wants to do when he wants to do it previously in time he did anything somebody asked for even with vastly improve conditions kinkel continue to demonstrate his frustration from living in an artificial environment he expressed distress in Mexico by knowing the concrete poured damaging his team and it continued in Oregon on his favorite rock decisions made to cover in order scorched behaviors and to protect the teeth the oceans greatest predator in orcas sharp Conklin shaped teeth make feeding on large prey possible but k call primarily eat fish which workers swallow whole so is damaged he should not be a problem in a while when he arrived in Oregon k goes a thousand pounds underweight but soon double when he was eating in Mexico his waistline increased by three-feet he gained nearly 2,000 pounds Andrew eight inches long but he still had to be talked to catch live fish as a milestone for his release and in order to survive in the wild accustomed to only dead fish at first he treated the Lightning like a toy surrounded by walls cake would ever been observed using echo location in captivity and to a wild killer whale it's a fundamental skill the whales hearing spectrum's many times ours our sensitivity is incredible day she with sound so when they're finding food they use there a colocation make sounds a good echoes and they can turn that into and metal three-dimensional image some you know he turns to different places around the world in you you look at look at what your patient doing and understand that they trip figured out how to live in that particular nicht that they happened to found which really interesting looking at the differences as gray whales migrate coastal Monterey Calif a part of transient workers show like call moves into the sea they hunt in packs too high Soleil then overpowered great care did to protect haha as many as a third of the cash taken by loggers 20 to 30 whales may work together share the bounty sharing thank you the important newsgroups it seems to be heard of the way that the whales live together to avoid competition set me they feature when it comes to feeding on Mon larger animals but that's probably more stress to the fact that these thing to be thinking I might Wiles a sun-baked and is not many of them intensified kill one been everybody has to be done a female the best hunters cool bring up the fish and others from per match line will come over and share that period what's kind of surprising for the residents they will share even a salmon that's perhaps only 5 10 pounds they will share that even old anyway I'll in the group could easily small it has given us a new appreciation and insight into the where he's at their side that said even all their dietary preferences culturally maintained and driven they don't seem to be really adaptable in the short term it might take a while before they can start focusing on alternate species love wheels traditional I'm failing do it mom yeah the way mom he then they socialize the well that mom socialized and they really don't like ranch and side if you have a have a 10 change and then taking them right is not be anyone then it's difficult for the welcome to attend the within decades and for a variety of reasons workers throughout the world maybe the crossroads of adaptation for extinction as their prey diminishes something the resident whales in the pacific northwest now face it's a growing issue for the future but is similar to the question whether kato would be able to adapt to hunting live fish in a while without another well teacher take on initially seemed confused about the shift in his died until finally either hunger common sense kicked in any begin to catch a few live fish in the wild that wouldn't be enough using ultrasound measure k cause fat layer of blubber the staff identified your children weren't enough in theory by measuring has blubber so easily and wild from an extended Paul signed his canoe in from when they would have to intervene they did know the kicker would have to be in better shape than he had ever been so even if thirty different toys with sharp with purpose filled with water a two hundred-pound bomb came cables were gone when he first arrived cable could barely hold his breath for three and a half minutes he soon progressed to almost 80 long for a while kilogram but can go is still far from a while well which was vividly scene when at night together is poised around to sleep in red cameras and 100 France captured k cuz movements and sounds taking advantage of this opportunity scientist carefully analyzes vocalizations trying to match them with specific behaviors hoping to take a step toward understanding killer communication kato however have not communicated with another organ more than 20 years are studying at parallels call dorky and car key they would begin conversations with certain sounds and conversation for certain sounds and I realize that studying communication between those two whales in captivity it be like studying communication between two people on a prism that there was no way I was gonna actually learn what they were saying and the real context of their lives to Needham the main thing about *** in she's a ship fiber she has been in captivity for 38 years about forty three years old which is incredibly old for character borger most to them guy within 10 years which to reassess recall survey a five-part and as she is swimming it Brown ran a 10k and in a concrete 10 give him chance if they make reverberate of the walser are up the tent there they're constantly intern in Anna Christie prize I think it's an incredibly stressful environments simply because it back and how is your research chaired our collab different well when I was showing working in in captivity and understood that if one wanted really to known about him he needed to go into the wild and started near at a distance certain that's where we iron curtain to develop in remote are different systems for a neighbor Esther here warehouse recurrent C ha whoever networker behind transcripts but fifty square kilometers superior Granderson we have special over the place for the scooter or come over time 24 7 365 yeah here normally disclosed to showcase and Emily bushes in expects lucia general sense we understand aware sir doing certain things instrument chasing fish from Chris Rickard group page who understand when they arrested because it made is free the no she course but journey through the bushes signature show hide i think im really fascinating area to get into should push the the he wishes as individuals I was listening to and if we can understand who speak it may be ultimately we might begin to understand what is pictured I wanted to take all that I learned in captivity and apply it to wild Wales and so I contacted a brilliant scientist in Canada doctor make bank and I asked him do you know what family of Wales working quickly came from which sounds like an extraordinary request but here at the time was photographing each dorsal fin and sound I'll learning to tell them apart collecting all the pictures from the capture and I was a bunch of pictures that showed this well we now call 823 with little baby corky just before she was taken from her mom so I had no boat experience said to everything into a pickup truck and we pumped up the zodiac an Alert Bay and we went out there and I stopped in apartheid her fans down on the headsets and was her family calling and for the first time I heard the sounds in their natural environment just rolling on enrolling on ako ng my first feeling was enormous guilt that it was me I was there not parking but am that's how I him one promising factoring kickers finding his fans wasn't orkut calls can be heard 10 miles away there was hope for a dialect match my North Atlantic workers for cake /a would be reintroduced a hundred miles from where he was captured to prepare for his mood obey pen was constructed in pristine Icelandic bank fine the right to return can come to the home he barely this have been kingdoms unexpected journey to freedom the millions of children demanded but that no one knew exactly how to accomplish jean-michel in washington coach transformation from two-and-a-half years and had been witness to his devoted fans even the US Air Force had agreed to end the C-seventeen cargo plane improved from trip seen it was in the best interest of the nation to fly can come home he was covered in oil in for the flight to protect the skin from trying teenagers hours out of his element kato's at last return cold ocean waters on the spur it was seen as the first step to restoring would have been taken away when he was captured KK would first have to acclimate inside the confines of the bay pan months later his world expanded the enclosed day were for the first time be ruled relative freedom it was cankles first chance at a small piece of a while not since he was two years old and he experienced the site and especially the complexity of sounds unnatural ocean environment in a min 23 years path is expected lifetime since kiko had even seen the bottom C pickles world was gradually expand from the next step satellite tags attached to his rear flock dorsal fin in order following it seems its attachment was no more painful than pure c'mere but the tag and cake would have to wait another season following complications to be tested at sea fine summer 2000 sea trials begin everything from jump k-cup the difficult promise to give choice for freedom have been capped then at last can goals within feet of wild killer whales he seemed enthusiastic first but then experience what might have been shyness will fear turn back right later encounters with progressive cable continue to seek the shelter boat three summers cake I'll continue to approach passing Wales spending more time with them possibly learning the ways then in 2002 after watching apart feat on Harry you simply swam away in the proximity of Wales for over two months kato's tracked by satellite his course reveal new details about his experiences in the wild but he emerged a thousand miles away sufficiently fed an ounce game an enormous success perhaps seeking human companionship or just chasing an easy meal k call followed a fishing boat into a Norwegian Fjord k go we still owe but he was welcomed by enchanted children must've felt they already knew him strong bonds are undeniably for between captive organs like a chola people but we've been slow to consider that the motions greatest predator wild and free may also be curious to understand of night help want people for the welfare interesting about well he now is a scientist you have to sign I'd up but as a while how get official in a there's no doubt in my mind the good luck guess fight the fight got the my signs guys I 33 hike go in an effort to both protect workers and to involve the public of hard-line english-speaking inward found in New York a project cop-one on it's fantastic news and so what direction when they go in when you saw them her nationally advertised number rings with reports of orcas sightings in strandings like that and the Whale she named dead partying he's trained in 1990 Stephen and I knew him before the strengthening bats when you're involved with a man or Muppet labeled it's just something about you when I look you in the eye and they read your message to rescue them and with team we had overnight ordeal M&M we rescued him and the next day he was linked with another group for college was just incredible that a year later got run over by a bunch and it was just tragic that a year later fam and his dorsal fin the back after completing to let stand for what I this and now he's got this funny little Fenway but fix-up let the rest but damn that he survived and he's very cautious about now but he'll still come over to my place I think that by showing people there the reaction within the individuals it makes the animals a little that more personable the like if somebody can call me up and say hey I just saw beam it gives them a little bit of a stake in being's life and Sun hopefully you know though slow down a boat's they'll drive a little more respectfully I the dasher course is really valuable my research but ultimately I wanted to be that the public will want to take these animals Kaikohe holograms it must have been love too much by well-meaning public online the Norwegian government passed laws to protect him and the Free Willy Kaikohe foundation in the Humane Society of the US agreed to continue his care he arrived in norway obviously having found himself at sea but without fission of your concern grew and the decision was made to begin feeding them again k go had everything he needed except the company of his own car in 2003 after more than a year in Norway at age 26 relatively young for male organ Kaikohe took a final breath and died from pneumonia like virus his burial was the last outpouring of affection for the well we thought we knew and we've done everything we have asked tackles the will we have forever changed and no matter how good our intentions use the way and fix for him to become what nature had intended been workin close company on the way homes it was impossible even for the world's most beloved most famous one I think it would be card impossible for anybody to propose capturing an all girl is based in North American Water said this point sure I think I hope in that sense we have come quite a long way in terms of Pikachu church in terms of what we understand about or Chris both we for sure come a long way I think at this point we understand enough about Baucus Sharkey to realize that this is complex and remarkable man passionate and major with we don't have the whole story here short be doing change really interesting the debate about returning captain organs to the wild and keeping them in captivity continues passion especially as we learn more about them and continue to discover that there may be few other species more like ourselves their dues to remain countries tolerated capturing orcas body most to the world many up close hands-on contact comes one away lands upon the beach stranded Ingrid Visser is a game-changing what we know there was a lot of controversy and they still is about saving stranded whales and dolphins people say that the head crushed internal or cancer from sitting on the beach for so long and then other people say balls I'm but no longer viable the stress hormones in order the sort of thing that these animals can't reproduce and that they're basically a dry society he put the ball because they gonna be eating fish and contributing nothing so Mercola she strained it she was rescued and when I'm sore here again our the SP three years later and then yeah by my she had his best Park School magic so his really really incredible to see America home this training thing been rescued and had to be replaced by have survived site yeah make it was the good yeah honey taking in the middle of a research in New gets a call that a small female worker stranded on isolated beach in heavy surf sheen the team rushed to assist she somewhere on the static const line here not sure exactly rear fact mysterious yea these lines on a chance and it's really rough and seems breaking so we kinda hoping will be able to pick her up in a few by tractor and trailer some rain to hear okay well let's do it go time is critical from spreading rescue so angry drama show will fly directly while the team drives the five hours to the site New Zealand's hills are bordered by twisting 9300 mile coastline whale strandings are fairly common successful rescues are not are gone this first sighted around one o'clock by some hikers in a very or now part of the West Coast Western Auckland passing and turning in the surf leon ultimately got to the beach and indeed this sound young female a little over three meters long was so very badly stranded so when we actually first saw her parsers just the natural emotions are just wanting to break down and cry and knowing that she's away from her family and knowing that she has no idea for people that have been a helper her her my help comes by digging holes for her flukes in flippers to relieve the discomfort then keeping her skin moist water choose probably not alone struggling in the search and another way home and trying to pour back to see judging from the March raked across retail stock being green names for raking most important to our survival is keeping the young well hydrated after hours of stress on the beach angrily successful in getting her to accept it to bring in water yeah into triage that also involves reassurance and comfort yeah I'm even with expert care under changing conditions it's believed them or potential I'm only about 24 hours of water hopefully should be okay then hopefully reunited with Sam pont she's a young female Peter family we for a very anxious to see a back in the ocean Pino world we movie animal just and just right up the bad this a tiny little town where there is a facility where we could pull the track in the trailer right next to a fresh water source so we had a hose where we could water down and we had an ongoing watched throughout the night but finally by 4 a.m. menu it was time for Ingrid and and Carl and the team to discuss what the options were together back in the water here's a handy Palin I'll sample strains 41 to hours after the school on yeah perfect game so the candle on my way any animals over 10 here and want love him wanna she's inside over the bad this year but then it'll take it to the other costs a hundred person can take should run fine and I and maybe thank you that's the Griscom for both scenarios is that we are at a family I the motion of biological you to be animals am Chisholm running up ration Spang here seen here's execution haha it's much country yet is def and the hell yeah its pivot enhanced trashed we have and she knows very well that pods here of the North Island world visit the west and east coast frequently says she felt confident pain of animal in the east side of the country that there is a very good chance that this young well we'll hook up with her family in the near future a decision is made to move Ricky to the east coast and the team prepares for what must be done to save the whale for the heart monitor we put it on early in the morning and Ingrid wanted to keep track of her heartbeat throughout the rest of her time on the fat man it's becoming clear to the team got a positive outcome for the rescue was not guaranteed for me personally is the first time I've seeing Marcus so close but Ingrid with her Treston as we really were not only fill main and assisting but where participants and when she asked me to use sit next to the way lemme help keep them heart monitor on her the entire time it was my job then to really have that continuous touch with the animal and really hopefully transmit my calmness to this animal and her heart was very your mom was average between sixty and eighty heart beats per minute and there are times when and even dipped a little bit which was hopefully a sign up for calmness and so on the usual procession moved to New Zealand's largest city so we drove right to the heart in Auckland ninety-minute the town with a momento but just sitting there thinking with the way home I'm sitting here with the whale we finally arrive over the east side call into the harbor in them ramble about at the animal lot earners well over 100 height people cheering as we drive up the Whalers gently rocked into the water but is disoriented from the ordeal I still there there's for flood of emotions first VMI's hardly moving at all anything like it right now and muscles baby just imagine your muscles ramp more house hours not be held stretch social justice how they just you know stretching out and getting back now this fluid environment and finally Ingrid has just passed on to the people back away only took you stay close to her to support her sure enough soonest three people backed away from the animal karla my name is back right by the had she just gets a big kick her tail just see the movement and her dorsal fin just life to the water she slowly tallow about deeper water we've heard the stories of dolphins pushing people in need back to show now this team has carried a young whale back to see was a chance at life perhaps markers in people's share in addition trait the ability to care for another species included each other in a complicated relationship with nature meet maybe bomb like the other thing I need is camps quite same sunny skies pretty much every time I go out I see some you interesting I just shot new site much more about just send them out by sex height weight eye color when I don't know what I have wanna saying to each other had they teach the young ones had a catch things on what happens to the winning know what a and def yeah and stuff like that as well and then on the science side of things our they impacted by pollution in the marine environment what sort of things can we do to protect have a tax if you teach people about these animals they gonna fan base here in Afghanistan be having a lot of the morning I love mom in yeah began to look after them I am from montana stumping people come finally the whales 12 we need the whales and you know in truth why do I need my airline you know why do I need any specific part of my body because it's part of the whole and you can I'm lamb without parts but it's a degraded existence because it's mom knitted together