Killer whale jumping and splashing. Photo credit: Gretchen Freund/©Terra Mater
As the NATURE episode Invasion of the Killer Whales showed, climate change is beginning to have an impact on animals that live in the Arctic, one of the coldest regions on earth. Seasonal ice sheets, the main hunting grounds of polar bears, are vanishing. But an ice-free Arctic is opening up new food sources for killer whales.
Do you think this ecological shift is a bad thing? Or will it matter in the long run? Did you have a favorite scene from this episode? What would you have liked to hear more about? Let us know in the comments below–and thanks for watching!
