Do Pilot Whales 'Mob' Orcas Because They Kidnap Their Babies?

In August 2021 a female Orca was observed off the coast of Iceland with a Long Finned Pilot Whale, a species that displays ‘mob like’ behaviour towards Orcas. Do Orcas kidnap Pilot Whale calves? Is this the reason Long Finned Pilot Whales chase Orcas? Sources: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjz-2022-0161?a… journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/… link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10211-022-00394… scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Alloparent… scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Occurrence… scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Pilot+whal… besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… www.researchgate.net/publication/261732452_Mobbing…

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