PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA: A DETERMINED orca whale has been snapped risking death by beaching in order to catch its slippery supper. Pictures show the black and white beast coming perilously close to shore, hot on the heels of the South American Sea Lion it had set its sights on. While other members of the Sea Lion crew watched on in horror at the spectacle of their comrade being carried off into the water for the last time. This sequence of events was captured as they unravelled in Patagonia, Argentina, showing the reality of creatures in the wild.

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Keywords: animals, flavescens, mammals, marine, nature, orca, orcinus, otaria, photography, predators, prey, wildlife