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Orcas or
killer whales have a
cosmopolitan distribution and
several distinct po****tions or
types have been do****ented or suggested.
Three to five types...
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provisionally recognized them as
subspecies Orcinus orca ater and O. o. rectipinnus, with O. o.
orca as the
nominate subspecies. Four
types have been do****ented...
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Orcas (or
killer whales) are large,
powerful aquatic apex predators.
There have been
incidents where orcas were
perceived to
attack humans in the wild...
- 1966) was a male
orca unintentionally captured in 1965 from the C1 Pod of the
northern resident community. He was the
first captive orca to
perform with...
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Captured in 1964, Moby Doll (c. 1959–9
October 1964) was the
first orca to
survive in
captivity for more than two days, and the
second to be displa****...
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revamping the
Shamu show, and was SeaWorld's
poster girl. She was
killed by an
orca, Tilikum, who was also
involved in the
deaths of
Keltie Byrne and Daniel...
- For Quint's boat, the
Orca,
Alves and his team
constructed two
identical 42-foot
models for the film. The
second boat,
dubbed Orca II, had no
motor and...
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adrift at sea
after their schooner was
holed by a pod of
orcas in 1972, one of the few do****ented
orca attacks in the Pacific.
Robertson was born in Edinburgh...
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harpoon the whales,
killing them
faster and more ****uredly than the
orcas could. The
orcas ate the
tongues and lips,
leaving the
blubber and
bones for the humans...
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certain areas.
Odontocetes feed
largely on fish and squid, but a few, like the
orca, feed on mammals, such as pinnipeds.
Males typically mate with
multiple females...
