BATTLE WITH WHALES.
ATTACKED BY KILLERS. [bt TiLEGßirn—ritssa association—corrntanr.l Sydney, September 29. There was a fierce battle between killers and whales ia Eden Bay. A school of killers drove two whales ashcie and the killers were then driven off and the whales securod. The killers belong to the orca family, tho only cetaceans which habitually prey upon warm-blooded animals, such as those of their own order. Killers hunt in packs, and not only destroy such small species of their own kind as dolphins and porpoises, but attack and sometimes kill whales much larger than themselves.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 315, 30 September 1908, Page 7
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95BATTLE WITH WHALES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 315, 30 September 1908, Page 7
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