Whale with Steve Backshall on ABC – Steve Backshall reveals the Ingenious hunting strategies of whales, the largest predators on the planet.
All whales and dolphins are extraordinary predators, using sound, skill, teamwork, and strategy to catch their prey. Steve enters their world as they hunt to understand what makes them the ocean’s apex predators. An extraordinary face to face encounter with the most sophisticated of all, Orca, begins a journey that reveals the remarkable abilities of the ocean’s greatest predators.
In the Bahamas, Steve experiences super-sensing Bottlenose Dolphins that see through sand with sound and in the Azores comes close to huge Sei Whales lunge feeding on baitballs corralled by dolphins.
Taking to freezing Arctic waters in Norway, Steve discovers how these Ingenious hunters are even using us to help them catch their food. Yet as their world and ours collide, these varied strategies are putting them at risk from bycatch, entanglement and pollution and Steve asks what we can do to protect them.
Production credit: Sky UK Limited
Whale with Steve Backshall on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 5 March, 2024 at 9.00pm
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