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Old Thom. Old Thom is a male North Atlantic killer whale (orca) known for being the only killer whale to regularly be sighted in the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy. Often referred to as a loner, the whale has never been seen with other orcas, but is often accompanied by Atlantic white-sided dolphins, who seem to feed alongside the orca. [1]
Old Tom (c. 1860s/1895 – September 1930) was a male orca (killer whale) who cooperated with and assisted whalers in the port of Eden, New South Wales, on the southeast coast of Australia. Old Tom was believed to be the leader of a pod of orcas which helped the whalers by herding baleen whales into Twofold Bay . [ 1 ]
Orca was likely Old Thom, scientists say, a frequent Cape Cod visitor. At first, he said, the orca was "quite a ways away, and then it came up again much closer to the boat.
Timor Tom. Timor Tom or Old Tom is a sperm whale from the 19th century, referenced in Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick. The only reference in the book is: [1] Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?
Keltie Lee Byrne (December 6, 1970 – February 20, 1991) was a 20-year-old Canadian student, animal trainer, and competitive swimmer. She had been working with orcas Tilikum, Nootka IV, and Haida II at Sealand of the Pacific to earn extra money. [17] On February 20, 1991, Byrne was working a shift when she slipped and fell into the whale pool ...
Kasatka. Katina. Katina with trainer Dawn Brancheau. Keet. Keto. Keiko, who portrayed Willy in the film Free Willy. Klee Wyck, the anthropomorphic mascot of the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Kiska, orca housed at Marineland and last captive orca kept in Canada. Kohana.
The killers of Eden or Twofold Bay killers[1] were a group of killer whales (Orcinus orca) known for their co-operation with human hunters of cetacean species. They were seen near the port of Eden in southeastern Australia between 1840 and 1930. A pod of killer whales, which included amongst its members a distinctive male called Old Tom, would ...
Orca gladiator (Bonnaterre, 1789) 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 its black-and-white patterned body.