One theory put forward by Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, suggested that the aggression started from a female orca that was perhaps struck by a boat ...

An orca rammed and lifted up a yacht with its mouth in the latest attack to occur off the coast of Portugal. Experienced sailors Paul and Norma Russell had been sailing from Cascais to Sines ...

Orcas that sunk a boat in Portugal ripped a huge hole in the back before tearing off the rudder and swimming away with it. The French sailboat became the latest to sink on November 1 amid a spate ...

New strategies to save boats from the orca uprising are in the works. Portuguese officials plan to test devices that could deter so-called killer whales from taking down ships with sound ...

A female orca. Getty Images 2023-06-27T11:13:02Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link An icon in the shape of a lightning ... the southernmost region of Portugal, ...

The yearlong aggression of orca pods against boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal continues unabated. By October of last year, there were 33 bizarre “revenge” attacks by killer whales off ...

A trio of orcas attacked a boat in the Strait of Gibraltar earlier this month, damaging it so badly that it sank soon afterward. The May 4 incident was the third time killer whales (Orcinus orca ...

The yearlong aggression of orca pods against boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal continues unabated. By October of last year, there were 33 bizarre "revenge" attacks by killer whales off the ...

It wasn’t the first attack by an orca, or killer whale, off the coast of Spain and Portugal this year. And it may not be the last time one chews a rudder or crashes into a hull.

It is one of a number of orca rammings that have taken place in the region in recent years, ... In July 2023, Portugal banned tourist boats from approaching pods of orcas.

A female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle. Orcas off the coast of Spain and Portugal have been ramming boats in what experts say is unusually aggressive ...

A traumatized female orca could be behind the increased killer-whale attacks on boats. A traumatic event may have triggered a change in White Gladis' behavior, experts told LiveScience. They ...