Whale watchers near the coast of Victoria, British Columbia posted a story in their Island Adventures Whale Report that a Killer Whale punted a Harbor Seal straight into the air. Shortly after, a video of the event was posted online that soon went viral. The Orca in question, a large 20-year-old male, has been dubbed T69C and is a member of the Terrestrial Killer Whale Pod T69. The video was posted just three days ago and has since received quite a bit of YouTube hype.
People watching the video claim the seal shot 30, 80 and even 100 feet into the air when T69C kicked him during a hunting expedition. It is like the tale of the fish that just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
When describing the event, the watcher said, "Today started out like any other day, but by the time it was over we had seen the stuff that belongs on the Discovery Channel," and went onto explain that his group was watching a couple of Humpback whales when they got the news that a Terrestrial Pod of Killer Whales were just a couple of miles away.
Soon they had found the pod and watched in amazement as the group took up a "hunting formation and headed straight for a flock of sea gulls." T69C swam into the gulls and began chasing a Harbor seal. Swimming upside down, his tail breached the water once, twice, three times and with that third strike, the seal went flying into the air quite some distance before crashing back into the water.
According to OrcaLab, Transient Whales are one of two distinct species of Killer Whales, the other being Resident Whales. There are some slight physical differences between the two species, but the main variables show up in their behaviors, life styles and their diet: Resident whales prefer fish, while Transient whales eat mostly marine mammals.
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