1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Killer Whale. Australia's megapod is available to stream on ABC 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: iView right now, and narrating this incredible documentary is Richard Roxburgh. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Now. Killer whales are just next level spectacular, aren't they. 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 2: They are really something. They are quite extraordinary animals. I 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 2: mean I learned I did. I actually learned so much 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 2: from from narrating the documentary. But I had always had 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: a sort of passing interest in them. 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: But they're incredible, They're I mean, calling them killer whales 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it. They're actually 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: part of the dolphin family. 12 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I guess the all whales are the But 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 2: it does sound kind of horribly reductive to call such 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: a beautiful animal by such a kind of you know, 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 2: a kind of dull name like killer whales. I like orcust, 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: I like Aucus. Yea, let's go with that. Let's call 17 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: them that. 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: Let's go with Orca. Have you seen them in the 19 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: wild yourself? 20 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 2: We thought, because we're lucky enough to live in the 21 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: Northern Beaches in Sydney, and we thought we saw a 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 2: pod of them offshore here last year, and it was 23 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 2: because they were behaving in a completely different way to humpbacks. 24 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 2: Yeah so, and it was just astonishing. They're really something 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: to behold. 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: So a lot of people don't know that not only 27 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: are their killer whales and way. I don't think it 28 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: was within the last ten years that I learned this. 29 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: But there are two distinct pods, one off Bremer Bay 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: and the other off Ningaloo Reef, and they are both 31 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: very individual and the Brema Bay pod is apparently the 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: healthiest in the world. 33 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. So they've counted up to kind of two hundred 34 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 2: individuals in that pod, about sixty k's off Brema Bay. 35 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a huge and really thriving population. Isn't 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: it great to hear a good news story from our 37 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 2: aquatic friends? It is, you know what I mean? So great. 38 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: Well that's why documentaries like this are important too, to 39 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: you know, to educate everyone. 40 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: Yeahsolutely. And their science around them is mind boggling. I mean, 41 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: they've got their brains are thirty million years more advanced 42 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 2: than ours, and they're they're much much larger so in 43 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: terms of kind of literal surface area, so they're incredibly smart. Yeah. 44 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was looking at Facebook this morning. They didn't 45 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: have much to have to improve on. They are an 46 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: incredibly intelligent species. They work together, they have matriarchs. Different 47 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: pods around the world have different hunting methods. Did you 48 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: learn any fun random facts about them while you were 49 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: narrating this? 50 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 2: The ones in the ones in bremer Bay I have 51 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: got an Australian accent. That's an interesting fact. So they're 52 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: doing all of this work in the world of sonics 53 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: obviously in recording them, and they do they speak with 54 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 2: a different accent. No, that's true, and they don't really know. 55 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 2: They're hoping that eventually, you know, with the advent of AI, 56 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 2: they might be able to actually understand what they're talking about. 57 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: But they've got quite advanced linguistics. 58 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my mind is blown that they have different accents. 59 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: So much to low. 60 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 2: Quick amazing fact that's in the documentary. And you see this, 61 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 2: and it's really not for the fainthearted. They're hunting down 62 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: a beaked whale and there's a whole pack, there's about 63 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: sixty of them. They tie this poor animal out and 64 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: what they're after is the skin of the whale, and 65 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: so it sounds horrible and cruel, but what they actually 66 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: do is skin the animal before its consumption, and so 67 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: they've tried to figure this out and it's part of 68 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: the kind of law around these animals that seems needlessly cruel. 69 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: But what they've discovered, what they think it might be, 70 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 2: is a kind of they're after vitamins and omega threes 71 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: and so it's kind of like they're just after their 72 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: their vitamins and that are really necessary for the part 73 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 2: and in particularly young ones. 74 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: We're just lucky because we can get our official tablets 75 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: in you know, tablets from the shop. 76 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have to skin anything alive. 77 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: I heard that that's where the term killer whale comes from. 78 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: It's because ancient sailors saw them, you know, going after 79 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: other whales. Yeah. 80 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 81 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: So anyway, well this is an amazing documentary and it 82 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: is available to stream anytime of the day you like 83 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: now on ABC I View. It's always a pleasure, Richard 84 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 2: Roxborough, my absolute pleasure as well.