Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal

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  @SaintThomasProductions · 4 years ago (edited)

  Thanks all for your comments. I am the director of this film which was shot 23 years ago. I am glad to let you know that Delphine is still alive and is now the mother of 3 calves. We are returning again in Nov, 2023 in Crozet to meet her, and see how she now teaches her young to catch elephant seals on the beach. There is now 5 time more elephant seals than when we were shooting the film, so the intentional beaching technique is a skill that many orcas practice. To answer other questions I have seen, I shot the orca sharing the minke whale without any particular protection: the orcas were even pushing the carcass towards me as if to say " you want some ? please share that meal with us !" They even brought me pectoral fins of elephant seals, and were scouting at me when I was entering the water to pick up the RHIB we used for filming. Unfortunately, there is no making of footage of this, but we will make some this year !

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  @TFOURIE · 1 year ago

  The Penguins standing in the background while other animals fight, looks like a bunch of spectators placing bets 😂

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• EC

  @ecoll8950 · 4 years ago

  Delphine kept me stressed this whole video. 😂😩 She has the best orca mom ever! This was a really good doc. I love Orcas so much.

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  @ievgeniagodynskyi1049 · 2 years ago

  &quot;As a tiny calf she was stranded and rescued by the French scientists. Since that day the whole family has trusted divers unusually close&quot;. <br>Intelligent animal could appreciate the act of kindness. This is amazing!❤

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• IM

  @imaansheraz · 4 months ago

  Most underrated Orca documentary ever.

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• VA

  @VaBeachBeech2971 · 4 years ago

  Orcas are so smart. Imagine the mom teaching her to stay in one place if she is lost. That means they had to teach her in a hypothetical situation kinda thing, like teaching a human child to dial 911 if someone is injured. Amazing.

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  @SalmanAli-pn7lq · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m fascinated by how patient her mother is with her naughtiness

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  @YaYa-ke1zr · 4 years ago

  Delphine needs her own reality show. <br><br>I’d watch. It would be a new dangerous adventure every episode. Full of dangers and parties.

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• BR

  @brittwilliams487 · 3 years ago

  I almost cried when Delphine was stuck but her mom came in to talk to her to show her how to free herself she has the best mom

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  @strangenaturee · 1 year ago

  I see Delphine as a reflection of a person in their youth—impulsive, playful, yet eventually growing up. Nature has its own way of teaching—gentle, yet strangely unforgiving.

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  @rachelkristine4669 · 4 years ago

  Delphines loneliness &amp; terror, while trapped in the kelp bed, must be how Keiko &amp; Tilly felt, while locked up ALONE, in a damn box, thousands of miles away from their families......HUMANS ARE EVIL! 😔

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  @mariadimarco5820 · 4 years ago

  Delphine is the cutest most ADHD water puppy, if I&apos;ve ever seen one.

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