Photographer ShawnHeinrichs captured a rare scene in Sri Lankan waters: five killer whales opened their mouths and killed six sperm whales. Usually, sperm whales are bigger than killer whales, but their attack power is far less than killer whales.

Black whale, killer whale, is a large toothed whale and dolphin, which can be regarded as whales and dolphins in principle. Among them, Atlantic 2 killer whales and Antarctic A killer whales mainly feed on whales and even blue whales.

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The record of adult male killer whales is 9.75 meters in length and 9524 kilograms in weight. It is the biggest one in the dolphin family. There are obvious sexual dimorphism in body shape, fin limb size and dorsal fin height.

The maximum length of women is 7.70 meters, and that of men is 9 meters. The dorsal fin of the male adult is upright, and the height can reach 1.0- 1.8 meters, while the dorsal fin of the female is obviously sickle-shaped and the height is less than 0.7 meters. The head is slightly round and the beak is not obvious.

The elliptic flippers are located at the front 1/4 of the total length of the body. The length of male flippers can reach 20% of the whole body length, and that of female flippers can reach 1 1%- 13%. The width of caudate lobe can exceed 65438+ 0/5 of the whole body length. The back of the body is black, with 1 light gray saddle point behind the dorsal fin.

The mandible and the ventral surface from the front of the mandible to the urogenital area are white. There are 1 white leaflike points behind the dorsal fin, which extend upward from the urogenital area to the body side. The ventral surface of the tail leaf is white or light gray, and may have black edges.

There are 1 white oval spots on both sides of the eyes. Saddle spot is not obvious when young, but more obvious after sexual maturity.

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Xinhuanet-This is the same root! Photographers catch killer whales and kill sperm whales.