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The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in the genus Orcinus and is recognizable by its black-and-white patterned body. A cosmopolitan species, it is found in diverse marine environments, from Arctic to Antarctic regions to tropical seas.
On June 13, 2022, an unidentified trainer was washing "paint and food chips" out of the mouth of the two-and-a-half-ton killer whale, Malia. The trainer was said to have broken the three foot rule and moved her right arm across the whale's mouth when the whale bit down and then "immediately" released the trainer.
Separate fish-eating and mammal-eating orca communities also exist off the coast of the Russian Far East and Hokkaido, Japan. [29] [30] Russian orcas are commonly seen around the Kamchatka Peninsula and Commander Islands. Over 2,000 individual resident-like orcas and 130 transient-like orcas have been identified off Russia. [29]
The overall winning image showed a whale about to devour a large ball of fish. The Ocean Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest on Thursday.
A large number of whales visiting the waters off New England included an uncommon sighting of an orca eating a tuna and an unusually large group of an endangered species of whale, scientists said.
A team of scientists working in icy Svalbard, Norway in 2014 captured photos of the bears feasting on the. The list of animals that polar bears consider prey is long, but up until recently it wasn ...
The Gitnagwinaks (sometimes spelled Nagunaks) trace their migrations southward, to the vicinity of the Kitasoo Tsimshians at Klemtu, British Columbia.In a discussion of the Bear Mother myth, the anthropologist Marius Barbeau in 1950 published information recorded by the Tsimshian ethnologist William Beynon from his fellow Gitlaan Tsimshian E. Maxwell which describes a dispute among the Kitasoo ...
EXTINCT; [5] Painted over in 1999 with a killer whale scene by Ron Deziel. 39: Finback Whales: Providence, Rhode Island: June 28, 1993: EXTINCT [5] 40: Inner City Whales: Port Authority Bus Terminal 41 Street Underpass, New York City: July 5, 1993 41: The Great Sperm Whales: Eugene O'Neill Dr. & State Street, New London, Connecticut: July 12, 1993