Did orcas help rescue entangled humpback whale?

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles Whale Watchers in western Australia filmed a remarkable interaction between a pod of orcas and a humpback whale.  The humpback’s tail was entangled in some fishing rope and he was forced to drag it along as he swam. The…

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles Did you know that some dolphins use gigantic shells to catch fish?  There is a group of dolphins living in Shark Bay in Australia who have worked out how to use giant snail shells as tools to catch fish…

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles Meet Snow Cone, she is a very rare North Atlantic right whale.  There are sadly fewer than 350 of these whales left on Earth …..imagine how rare they are – do you for example have more than 350 children…

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles Did you know that some rare dolphins do not live in the salty ocean? They live in freshwater water rivers and lakes in South America and Asia. Amazon River dolphins are known as botos and share their magnificent rainforest…

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles Holly the orca lives wild and free with her family and friends in the ocean. She is part of the Northern Resident orca community of just over 200 orcas who live in British Columbia in Canada. The orcas live…

Kidzone – quick links Fun Facts Curious kids Blogs Fantastic fundraisers Gallery Splish and Splash Puzzles A unique ancient whale fossil has been discovered in Rhodes, Greece. The whale named Polychronis Stamatiadis, is a 1,400,000 (or 1.4 million) year-old relative of orcas and false killer whales and lived in our oceans during the Pleistocene period.…