of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The southern resident orcas form a closed society with no emigration or...
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Northern resident orcas, also known as northern resident killer whales (NRKW), are one of four separate, non-interbreeding communities of the exclusively...
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recovery? Orcas adopted by Obama girls". San Juan Journal. Retrieved July 31, 2018. Center for Whale Research (June 17, 2018). "Southern Resident Orca Community...
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human fisheries. In late 2005, the southern resident orcas were placed on the U.S. Endangered Species list. Orcas are not usually a threat to humans,...
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United States such as SeaWorld have not collected wild orcas in over 35 years. 25 of the 33 orcas on display in the US, Argentina, Spain, and France were...
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distress over the prior two days. Lolita was a member of L Pod of the southern resident orcas. She was a close relative of L25 "Ocean Sun", who is the oldest...
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Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna. The loss of Luna reduced the number of mature males of Southern Resident orcas to just two individuals who...
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approx, died c. 2016), also known as J2, was a female orca of the J pod of southern resident orcas notable for her long life. Early estimates placed her...
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Shamu (category Southern resident orcas)
/ʃæmuː/ (unknown – August 16, 1971) was a female orca captured in October 1965 from a southern resident pod. She was sold to SeaWorld San Diego and became...
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Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped...
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Moby Doll (category Southern resident orcas)
later identified as a member of J Pod of the southern resident orcas. At the time of his capture, orcas were widely feared and hated. In 1972, Washington...
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Dozens of orcas (killer whales) are held in captivity for breeding or performance purposes. The practice of capturing and displaying orcas in exhibitions...
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distinct populations of orcas (Orcinus orca). The area supports three major ecotypes of orcas: northern residents, southern residents, and transients. A fourth...
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world. Resident orcas can be divided into at least three distinct communities; northern, southern and southern Alaskan. Southern Alaskan resident orcas are...
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Miami Seaquarium (section Lolita the Orca)
exception that did not include Lolita as part of the ESA-listed Southern resident orcas that live in Washington and British Columbia waters. Activists...
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communication systems of orcas correspond with their large brains and complex social structure. The three southern resident orca pods share some calls with...
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Ramu III (category Southern resident orcas)
the Free Willy trilogy of films. Windsor Safari Park Captive orcas List of captive orcas List of individual cetaceans "One Dolphin's Story – Ramu/Winston"...
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Beginning in 2020, a subpopulation of orcas (Orcinus orca) began ramming boats and attacking their rudders in waters off the Iberian Peninsula. The behaviour...
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Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild...
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Save A Starving Orca, Oregon Public Broadcasting Bob Friel (August 27, 2018), "Orcas in the Mist – The Pacific Northwest's Southern Resident killer whales...
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Walter the Whale (category Southern resident orcas)
Whale was the orca's advertised name at first, but she was later renamed Skana. Walter was captured from K Pod of the southern resident orcas in 1967 by...
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Seattle's indigenous population and the region's orca population, one of the Southern resident orcas, J17, was nicknamed Princess Angeline after Kikisoblu...
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and selling a number of orcas during the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the first ever successful feeding of a captive orca occurred, coincidentally...
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Moby Doll's impact in scientific research (category Southern resident orcas)
hunting and killing orcas for its research. Moby Doll began the transformation of the species' image, followed by the next few captive orcas. They initiated...
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List of individual cetaceans https:// www.kintocetaceans.org/the-orcas.html "Orcas in the SWC Petting Pool - Exploring the Cetacean-Human Relationship"...
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killer whales (orcas). While mammal-eating transient orcas are gradually increasing in population, fish-eating southern resident orcas have struggled...
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is invasive, but the NMFS made the unilateral decision to tag southern resident orcas. The L95 whale died 5 weeks after being shot with a barbed satellite...
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expedition to the San Juan Islands to film and raise awareness for the Southern Resident Orca Pod. The following year, they traveled to Nepal to film wild Bengal...
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of killer whales, known as the Southern resident orcas, have rights of nature and should be protected due to the orca's significant "cultural, spiritual...
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"saltwater people", saw orcas as their reincarnated ancestors, whalers in particular, due to the similarity in coloration of the orcas and the traditional...
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