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English: Woman swims with killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the wild in New Zealand.Additional footage by Steve Hathaway. orcaresearchtrust.org In this video, the audio has been removed from the original material and sections of the original material have been removed.
In a rare video captured by a whale watching expedition off the coast of San Diego this week, a killer whale teaches its baby how to hunt by headbutting a dolphin, causing it to flip several times ...
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]
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.
A rare white orca has been filmed off the coast of Japan. The marine mammal was spotted in Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, for the first time in two years on 13 May. Sightseeing cruise staff ...
Keiko became the star of the film Free Willy in 1993. The publicity from his role led to an effort by Warner Brothers to find a better home for the orca. The pool for the now 21-foot-long (6.4 m) orca was only 22 feet (6.7 m) deep, 65 feet (20 m) wide and 114 feet (35 m) long.
Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.It concerns Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive orcas.The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release.
SeaWorld still has many allies, including former trainer Mark Simmons, who participated in Blackfish and was unhappy with how the documentary turned out, as the statement above mentions. Simmons ...