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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Time to ban Killer Whales...No whale needs to kill   
   4 times in less than a week...Think of the baby Gray Whales.   
   Orcas must go.   
      
   Killer whales go on 'unprecedented' killing spree off California   
      
   Killer whales off the coast of Monterey Bay have reportedly chalked up their   
   fourth kill since last Thursday after separating a helpless gray whale calf   
   from its mother.   
      
   Scientists called the killing spree in the area “unprecedented.” In the   
   case of the gray whale calf, sightseers on a whale watching tour had front-row   
   seats during the hunt. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that whale   
   watchers have been able to    
   see, firsthand, hunts that are usually only seen in productions.   
      
   “This has never happened in my thirty years," Nancy Black, a marine   
   biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, told The Chronicle. "Just to witness   
   that out in nature when you usually see that kind of thing on television is   
   really spectacular."   
      
   Monterey Bay historically is a favorite spot for orcas to intercept migrating   
   gray whales.   
       
   The most recent killing occurred on Wednesday. Although it usually takes hours   
   for killer whales to kill a grey whale calf—due in part to the fact that   
   these calfs’ mothers usually give a valiant effort to protect their young,   
   using their massive    
   tails to strike at the orcas and-- at times -- roll over with the calf on   
   their bellies—the killing on Wednesday took only 20 minutes.   
      
   Black told the paper that the mother and calf in this case appeared to be   
   thinner than usual, hence may have given up a lesser fight. She said it may be   
   a record how fast the pod of nine whales killed the calf.   
      
      
   Young orcas swam nearby to observe how the females approach the kill.   
      
   "Mothers and calves are last to migrate because they stay in Mexico longer so   
   their calves can grow up and gain weight before they make that long   
   migration," Black told the paper.   
      
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