Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favourite meal, herring, abounds, but climate change means both predator and prey must increasingly migrate further north. The clear and calm waters of Reisafjorden, in Norway’s Far North, have in recent years become the winter playground of the Scandinavian country’s killer whale population. The Norwegian killer whales, which only occasionally feast on seals or smaller whales, have followed the herring. After a massive international campaign, Keiko was released into the wild in Iceland, before he headed for Norway — one of the only countries in the world that hunts whales, albeit not killer whales.

Source: Egypt Independent January 28, 2019 08:37 UTC