KillerWhales

Orcas The Killer Whales Who Hunt Great White Sharks! — Blogging 4Readers

Dolphins and whales are closely related. Orcas were given the name ‘killer whale’ by ancient sailors’ observations of groups of orcas hunting and preying on larger whale species. They called orcas asesina ballenas, or ‘whale killer’ – a term that was eventually flipped around to the easier ‘killer whale’. Their Latin name, Orcinus orca, also reflects this […]

Orcas The Killer Whales Who Hunt Great White Sharks! — Blogging 4Readers
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Southern Resident Killer Whales. — Animals of the Pacific Northwest

Earlier this year, it was announced that a new Southern Resident killer whale had been born last December! Lucky, as it had been nicknamed, is a part of the L pod and a few months after it was born, another southern resident was born to the J pod. For a short time, there were 76 […]

Southern Resident Killer Whales. — Animals of the Pacific Northwest
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