Don't get me wrong. I appreciate orcas for their skills as epic hunters, their problem-solving abilities and their behaviour.
But why oh why is the BBC so obsessed with them? Every single remotely watery nature documentary has to contain orcas. In fact, I'd bet that they get more air time than any other creature. And EVERY single time we have to watch them ruthlessly pursue a hapless seal/whale. This is, of course, what they do. But why must it always be this particular behaviour that we see? Why can't we watch calves being born, or playing, or courtship behaviour perhaps?
With the money that gets quite rightly poured into nature documentaries, you'd think they could shake things up a bit. How many times have we seen the same bit of footage of the grey whale calf being separated from its mother by orcas and killed, for them to only eat its tongue?
I've been watching and enjoying the Frozen Planet series currently running on the BBC, but every single episode keeps churning out films of orcas killing stuff. Come on BBC, let's see something different!
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