One of the explanations is this is a means of breaking it up so they can all have a feed, particularly the young?

Yeah, so I originally thought that because this video I filmed, it was several years ago now, and it was almost instantly after that explosion, you can see a juvenile fly in and start eating those pieces almost immediately.

So that gave me the impression that, you know, the calf had almost been waiting for that to happen so the pieces were more manageable for the young orca.

And I was going to write a, a scientific note about this observation, but time kind of got away with me, and before I knew it, someone else had actually posted a video on social media of this happening again.

So I actually reached out to him and asked him if I could include this in our scientific note, and he agreed, and there was a calf present.

But in his video, it's not the calf eating the smaller pieces.

So that made me think, "Hmm, maybe it's not just for the calf, and maybe it is just for fun." Like, if you can do that to something, why not? [laughs]

The orcas have been up to some pretty strange stuff recently, haven't they?