A shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The Arctic is undergoing a dramatic change, and with this change one iconic Arctic hunter may soon have to give way to another as solid ice turns to open sea. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are unable to hunt in an ocean locked in ice.
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Airs Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. ET\/PT. Check your local listings.\n","video_long_description":"A shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are unable to hunt in an ocean locked in ice. As Arctic ice increasingly disappears, the tables have turned. Polar bears are struggling to survive while the now open ocean provides bountiful new hunting grounds for the whales. \n","video_airdate":"2014-11-19","video_rating":"NR","video_duration":45,"video_expiredate":"","video_window":"public","video_iframe":"\/\/player.pbs.org\/widget\/partnerplayer\/2365364828\/?endscreen=false&topbar=true","video_meta_row":"Premiere: 11\/19\/2014 00:00:45 NR","seasonality":"S33 Ep6"}],"full_length":"1": Closed Captioning Icon","video_meta_row2":"Streaming until: 11\/18\/2024 @ 11:00 PM EST","seasonality":"S33 Ep6"}About the EpisodeA shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The Arctic is undergoing a dramatic change, and with this change one iconic Arctic hunter may soon have to give way to another as solid ice turns to open sea. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are unable to hunt in an ocean locked in ice. As the ice increasingly disappears, the tables have turned. Polar bears are struggling to survive while the now open ocean provides bountiful new hunting grounds for the whales. There appears to be no stopping these voracious predators, whose fearsome presence has been formerly unknown so far north in Canadian waters. Hunters and hunted in this once frozen world must now make way for the arrival of the most successful ocean predator of them all.
FERGUSON: We really recognized the killer whale as that top predator that, all of a sudden, was making these huge changes in the Canadian Arctic, and it was something we didn't really think about at the start, but there it was, staring us in the face.
FERGUSON: The summary here is all sightings of killer whales in the Canadian Arctic, and we have a really obvious pattern here where there's very few killer whale observations during the winter, but they start to arrive in the spring -- June, July, August peaking in the sightings -- and then, after that, they start to decline in sightings, and this pattern that relates to the sea ice.
The satellite locations are all showing them sticking close together, and this is something we weren't sure about as to whether the killer whales are going to group and disperse as small groups, come back together.
So it's, um... As far as the top predators go, we think there's a switch going on that a lot of the Arctic, especially in southern areas, is switching over to be open water kind of habitat, where killer whales are the top predator, and polar bears are going to have trouble.
Now we're getting open water far into the Canadian Archipelago, places that, in the summer, usually had ice, and so killer whales have been observed further west than we ever had any records of them.
It's almost as if the Eastern Canadian Arctic killer whales are expanding right on through, and this huge playground is now available for them to move around in during the summer months, and they're taking advantage of that.
FERGUSON: We had bowhead whales that were satellite tagged this past spring, the same year, and as it turned out, our killer whales ended up going down into an area that had almost all of the tagged bowhead whales, and so we were pretty interested in seeing their response.
This is not entirely what we expected to see, these changes occurring from the top down, that killer whales could be this dominant a predator that could actually result in the death of a lot of whales from southern populations.
"That's just who he is!" spouted the whale, with a gleeful gurgle, andbefore[Pg 12] any one could say "Jack Robinson!" Mr. Jonah appeared upon thedeck of the Ark, and with a swish of his great tail the whaledisappeared in the darkness.
"Sorry if I am intruding," said Mr. Jonah apologetically, "but the truthis it was so dark and uncomfortable inside that whale that I would havehad nervous prostration had I been obliged to remain there anotherminute."
"It's certainly a relief to be once more at a breakfast table," he said."Traveling inside a whale is like sailing in a submarine. Although awhale is supposed to be neutral, nevertheless, I was frightened to deathfor fear we might be torpedoed!"
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If you happen to visit this beautiful island during the winter months of January to April, you can go on a humpback whale excursion. Where you will witness and if lucky get to snorkel with these majestic creatures as they migrate from the cold Atlantic Ocean waters to the warmer Caribbean waters for mating and childbearing.
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