Orcas: Apex Predators Or Marine Park Stars?

Published: March 1, 2022, 12:46 p.m.

b'NPR science correspondent Lauren Sommer joins Short Wave host Emily Kwong to talk about a team of researchers who were the first to document a pack of orcas attacking a blue whale. Their work shows that killer whales, while stars in marine parks and movies, are also the ocean\'s top-- and often vicious-- predators. Humans\' complex relationship with them may say more about humans than about the orcas.

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