An Australian fisherman has captured a rare pod of killer whales on his phone.
Luke Burton and his mate were in the company of the beautiful beasts for 15 minutes, while they frolicked playfully alongside their fishing boat in Fog Bay in the Northern Territory. He said the small whales were two-metres in length while the larger ones were up to eight metres. There was also a bottle-nosed dolphin playing between them.
"She was pretty exciting, it got your blood pumping a bit. A bit of adrenalin," Burton told ABC News.
Carol Palmer, a senior scientist at the NT Department of Land Resource Management, in an interview with ABC News said the sighting is only the fourth time killer whales have been spotted in the Northern Territory in the last two years -- and the other sightings were pods of roughly six killer whales.
Palmer said you can tell the age of the killer whales in the pod due to their size and the nature of their activity. She also noted killer whales are not in fact whales, as many believe, but are the world's largest dolphin.