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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.
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.
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British sailor April Boyes captured the moment a group of killer whales attacked her vessel off the coast of southern Spain on Wednesday 24 May, in one of dozens of similar orca attacks recorded ...
Attacks by orcas, or killer whales, on boats in the Strait of Gibraltar are increasing. But why are these seemingly peaceful creatures becoming dangerous. ... Orcas, or “killer whales,” can ...
The killer whale known as Old Tom swims alongside a whaleboat, flanking a whale calf. The boat is being towed by a harpooned whale (not visible here). 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.