But luckily for the larger whale, the nearby orcas were Northern Residents that eat fish, not other whales.
Sea Watch said May was a peak time to see orcas, or killer whales.
Little Big Man here had survived orcas, bears and eagles along his journey.
Eagles soar overhead and humpback whales put in an appearance in summer, joining orcas, dolphins and seabirds.
If the hole, through which the whales frequently surface and take breaths, freezes over, the orcas will die.
As we kicked back on the top deck for lunch, the orcas moved languidly in a tight group near the surface.
One day it was a pod of orcas cutting across our bow, diving and surfacing regularly in chase of some unseen prey.
In fact, all Northern Resident male orcas stick closely to their mothers.
The orcas were discovered Tuesday morning by a northern Quebec seal hunter.
The Canadian government is sending experts to the scene Thursday to see whether the orcas can be saved, CNN affiliate CBC reported.
Step off the floatplane here and you are plunged into a towering landscape with broad, glinting sweeps of water alive with orcas, sea lions, otters, dolphins, and salmon--lots of salmon.
We checked into the sleek 36-room Hotel Territorio, and consoled ourselves for having missed the orcas with heaping plates of scallops, mussels, shrimp, razor clams, calamari, pollock, hake and Patagonian lamb.
Jackie Hildering of the Marine Education and Research Society, a guest naturalist on board, explained that the baleen whale was trying to intimidate the orcas to avoid being attacked, since Biggs orcas kill humpbacks.
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