Orca attacks
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Orcas are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild, but such attacks are less common than those by captive orcas. In ca
Point Sur, seen from the north on Highway 1
An orca beaching to capture sea lion on the beach of Valdés Peninsula
Kasatka and her son Nakai posing during a show in 2002
Tilikum, who was involved in 3 deaths, swims in the Dine with Shamu exhibit in Orlando, Florida
Southern resident orcas
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The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales, are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The
The research vessel Noctiluca of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in close proximity to an orca
Younger and older Southern Resident orcas hunting salmon prey as a group; sometimes they share the fish
J50 Scarlet at nine months with mother J16 Slick
L pod male and salmon prey in Haro Strait, south of Lime Kiln Point State Park