A new report from the University of British Columbia includes video evidence of dolphins and killer whales hunting cooperatively for salmon, potentially challenging what the world knows about marine life.

The video was revealed as part of a Nature publication titled Cooperative foraging between dolphins and fish-eating killer whales. The report details how researchers caught a rare interaction between the two iconic species working fin-in-fin on B.C.’s coast.

Andrew Trites, a UBC marine mammal researcher and part of the team that captured the drone video, says they came across the scene by complete accident, while documenting a chinook salmon population and northern resident killer whale eating habits.

“The odds of us getting it were one in a million,” Trites told CityNews.

“And in the

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