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2. Southern resident orcas - Wikipedia

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   The southern resident pod is their normal traveling unit. The three southern resident pods form the single clan of this small killer whale community. The clan is possibly a single lineage that split into pods in the past. The clan has a unique stable dialect that shares no calls with other killer whale clans. [14]

3. Orca types and populations - Wikipedia

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   Resident (fish-eating) orcas: The curved dorsal fins are typical of resident females. Resident: These are the most commonly sighted of the three populations in the coastal waters of the northeast Pacific. Residents' diets consist primarily of fish [6] and sometimes squid, and they live in complex and cohesive family groups called pods. [7]

4. Killer whale spotted balancing a salmon on its head ... - AOL

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   An orca was seen balancing a salmon on its head in coastal waters in Washington state. Orcas were previously observed doing the same thing in the 1980s. It’s not clear what the behavior means.

5. List of captive orcas - Wikipedia

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   Initially named Walter the Whale, [144] [145] this orca was taken into captivity during the Yukon Harbor orca capture operation, which was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on 15 February 1967, in Yukon ...

6. Orca Tokitae’s necropsy shocks Lummi Nation tribe as ... - AOL

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   The death of Tokitae, the southern resident orca on Friday in Miami, was a shock to those who had been working to return her to her home waters of the Pacific Northwest, after 53 years in captivity.

7. Northern resident orcas - Wikipedia

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   The northern resident population consists of three clans (A, G, R) that consists of several pods with one or more matrilines within each pod. The northern residents are genetically distinct from the southern resident orcas and their calls are also quite distinct.

8. Orca carried her dead calf for 17 days. She now has a new baby

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   The orca who swam with her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent act of grieving recently gave birth to a new baby, according to Michael Weiss, research director of the Center for Whale Research.

9. A5 pod - Wikipedia

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   A5 Pod is a name given to a group of orcas (Orcinus orca) found off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.It is part of the northern resident population of orcas—a name given to the fish-eating orcas found in coastal waters ranging from mid-Vancouver Island in British Columbia up through Haida Gwaii and into the southeastern portions of Alaska.