A Whale Saved My Life | Close Encounters | BBC Earth

A video on YouTube. In Documentaries, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

Marine biologist Nan Hauser recounts an extraordinary encounter in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where a humpback whale protected her from a tiger shark by pushing her with its head and tucking her under its pectoral fin.

From the video

Answers: How did a humpback whale protect a marine biologist from a tiger shark?

Humpback whale protective behavior
Tiger shark encounter in Rarotonga
Whale altruism toward humans
Marine biology research in Cook Islands

What it concludes

Humpback whales display altruistic behavior to protect other animals, including humans, from predators like tiger sharks.
The humpback whale actively shielded the marine biologist from a large tiger shark by pushing her and tucking her under its pectoral fin.

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