When faced with a killer whale should you fight or flee?

Charge! THAT the best form of defence is attack is an old maxim. In reality, it is frequently untrue; running away is a far better option. But it seems to be the approach taken by pilot whales when faced with a pod of killer whales which are looking for dinner. That, at least, is the conclusion of Matthew Bowers of Duke University in North Carolina. He came to it as the result of a study, just published in Experimental Biology, which he and his team conducted on pilot whales (pictured) and Risso...