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One orca followed as the captors’ boat led Moby Doll by the harpoon line from Saturna Island to Vancouver. [46] Plausibly the same orca exchanged long–distance pulsed calls with him over two miles (3.2 kilometres) the next day when he was at Burrard Dry Dock. [47] In 1967, K Pod orcas were being herded in the Yukon Harbor capture operation ...
Northern resident orcas, also known as northern resident killer whales (NRKW), are one of four separate, non-interbreeding communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast portion of the North Pacific Ocean.
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 ...
Tahlequah (born c. 1998), also known as J35, is an orca of the southern resident community in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She has given birth to four known offspring, a male (Notch) in 2010, a female (Tali) in 2018, another male (Phoenix) in 2020, and an unnamed female calf in 2024.
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Old Thom is a large bull orca, and is estimated to be 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) long, with an estimated weight of 8 short tons (7.3 t). [3] The whale is identified by a distinct notch a third of the way down the posterior side of the dorsal fin.
Kiska was the last orca kept at Marineland until her death in 2023. [ 12 ] [ 11 ] [ 13 ] She was nicknamed the World's Loneliest Orca because she spent the last 12 years of her life completely alone. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Kiska was the last captive orca to be held in Canada as a result of the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act .
The IUCN reported in 2008, "The taxonomy of this genus is clearly in need of review, and it is likely that O. orca will be split into a number of different species or at least subspecies over the next few years." [3] Although large variation in the ecological distinctiveness of different orca groups complicate simple differentiation into types. [4]