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Orca (Orcinus orca) Sex. Male. Died. September 1930. Known for. Cooperation with whalers. 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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
One male, known as Old Tom, was reportedly spotted every winter between the 1840s and 1930 off New South Wales, Australia, which would have made him up to 90 years old. Examination of his teeth indicated he died around age 35, [ 152 ] but this method of age determination is now believed to be inaccurate for older animals. [ 153 ]
Owen Coffin. Owen Coffin (1802–1821) was a teenaged sailor aboard the Nantucket whaler Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whaling expedition in August 1819. In November the next year, a whale rammed and breached their hull in mid-Pacific, causing Essex to sink.
The Eden Killer Whale Museum is a museum in Eden, New South Wales, Australia. It was originally built to house the skeleton of the orca "Old Tom" and tell the story of Old Tom and the other Killer whales of Eden. The local historical society is based at the museum, where it displays and houses between five and ten thousand items, focusing on ...
12,500 lb (5,700 kg) Tilikum (c.December 1981[ 1 ] – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, [ 2 ] was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida. He was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [ 3 ]
Timor Tom, known by other names such as Timor Jack and Timor Tim, was an enormous white whale who engaged in battles with English whalers during the early 1800s in the vicinity of the small islands of Oriental Sonde, specifically Lamalera in the Coral Triangle. This extraordinary creature held a significant connection with the traditional sperm ...