Orca, the Glossary
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.[1]
Table of Contents
316 relations: Aboriginal whaling, Academic Press, Ainu people, Akashi Strait, Alaska, Albinism, Aleutian Islands, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Anecdotal evidence, Animal cognition, Animal culture, Animal echolocation, Animal training, Antarctic, Antarctica, Apex predator, Aquaculture of salmonids, Aquarium, Arctic ice pack, Arctic Ocean, Associated Press, Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Baleen whale, Basal (phylogenetics), Basking shark, Batoidea, Bay of Greifswald, BBC Worldwide, Beluga whale, Bioaccumulation, Blackfish (film), Blubber, Blue shark, Blue whale, Bologna, Bottlenose dolphin, British Columbia, British Columbia Coast, Broadnose sevengill shark, Brominated flame retardant, Brown bear, California, California sea lion, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cannibalism, Captive orcas, Carl Linnaeus, Carousel feeding, ... Expand index (266 more) »
- Animals that use echolocation
- Cosmopolitan mammals
- Orcas
Aboriginal whaling
Aboriginal whaling or indigenous whaling is the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples recognised by either IWC (International Whaling Commission) or the hunting is considered as part of indigenous activity by the country.
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Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.
Ainu people
The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.
Akashi Strait
The is a strait between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Awaji.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
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Albinism
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and reddish pink or blue eyes.
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anecdotal evidence
Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation, collected in a casual or non-systematic manner.
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Animal cognition
Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition.
Animal culture
Animal culture can be defined as the ability of non-human animals to learn and transmit behaviors through processes of social or cultural learning.
Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Animal training
Animal training is the act of teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli.
Antarctic
The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Apex predator
An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
Aquaculture of salmonids
The aquaculture of salmonids is the farming and harvesting of salmonid fish under controlled conditions for both commercial and recreational purposes.
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Aquarium
An aquarium (aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.
Arctic ice pack
The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Atlantic white-sided dolphin
The Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) is a distinctively coloured dolphin found in the cool to temperate waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Baleen whale
Baleen whales, also known as whalebone whales, are marine mammals of the parvorder Mysticeti in the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises), which use keratinaceous baleen plates (or "whalebone") in their mouths to sieve planktonic creatures from the water.
Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Basking shark
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark.
Batoidea
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.
Bay of Greifswald
The Bay of Greifswald by Jürgen Utrata (2014).
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BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in January 1995.
Beluga whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
Bioaccumulation
Bioaccumulation is the gradual accumulation of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals, in an organism.
Blackfish (film)
Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
Blubber
Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds, penguins, and sirenians.
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Blue shark
The blue shark (Prionace glauca), also known as the great blue shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, which inhabits deep waters in the world's temperate and tropical oceans.
Blue whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Orca and blue whale are cosmopolitan mammals and mammals described in 1758.
Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.
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Bottlenose dolphin
The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Orca and bottlenose dolphin are cosmopolitan mammals.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
British Columbia Coast
The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Broadnose sevengill shark
The broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) is the only extant member of the genus Notorynchus, in the family Hexanchidae.
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Brominated flame retardant
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are organobromine compounds that have an inhibitory effect on combustion chemistry and tend to reduce the flammability of products containing them.
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Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Orca and brown bear are mammals described in 1758.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
California sea lion
The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America.
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.
Captive orcas
Dozens of orcas (killer whales) are held in captivity for breeding or performance purposes. Orca and captive orcas are orcas.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Carousel feeding
Carousel feeding is a cooperative hunting method used by Norwegian orcas (''Orcinus orca'') to capture wintering Norwegian spring-spawning herring (Clupea harengus). Orca and Carousel feeding are orcas.
CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.
Cephalorhynchus
Cephalorhynchus is a genus in the dolphin family Delphinidae. Orca and Cephalorhynchus are animals that use echolocation.
Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Cetacean stranding
Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach.
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Cetacean surfacing behaviour
Cetacean surfacing behaviour is a grouping of movement types that cetaceans make at the water's surface in addition to breathing.
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Chinook salmon
The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon.
Chinstrap penguin
The chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) is a species of penguin that inhabits a variety of islands and shores in the Southern Pacific and the Antarctic Oceans.
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Chum salmon
The chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), also known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon) native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic, and is often marketed under the trade name silverbrite salmon in North America.
CITES
CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.
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Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
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Columbia River
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Common dolphin
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with a global population of about six million. Orca and common dolphin are mammals described in 1758.
Common thresher
The common thresher (Alopias vulpinus), also known as Atlantic thresher, is the largest species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, reaching some in length.
Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner (Conradus Gesnerus 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.
Conservation status
The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future.
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Conservation-dependent species
A conservation-dependent species is a species which has been categorized as "Conservation Dependent" ("LR/cd") by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as dependent on conservation efforts to prevent it from becoming endangered.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
Cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so.
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Crabeater seal
The crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), also known as the krill-eater seal, is a true seal with a circumpolar distribution around the coast of Antarctica.
Crozet Islands
The Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet; or, officially, Archipel Crozet) are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
CT scan
A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.
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Dall's porpoise
Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) is a species of porpoise endemic to the North Pacific.
Data deficient
A data deficient (DD) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as offering insufficient information for a proper assessment of conservation status to be made.
David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based non-profit environmental organization headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Montreal and Toronto.
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Decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
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Diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
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Disturbance (ecology)
In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA.
Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale). Orca and dolphin are animals that use echolocation.
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Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.
Drift ice
Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.
Dusky dolphin
The dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) is a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere.
Earth Island Institute
The Earth Island Institute is a non-profit environmental group founded in 1982 by David Brower.
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Ecojustice Canada
Ecojustice Canada (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund prior to September 2007), is a Canadian non-profit environmental law organization that provides funding to lawyers to use litigation to defend and protect the environment.
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Elephant
Elephants are the largest living land animals.
Elephant seal
Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.
Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
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Environmental Defence Canada
Environmental Defence (formerly known as the Canadian Environmental Defence Fund) is a Canadian environmental organization, founded in 1984.
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Estrous cycle
The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.
External occipital crest
The external occipital crest is part of the external surface of the squamous part of the occipital bone.
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Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.
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False killer whale
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca. Orca and false killer whale are cosmopolitan mammals.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Fish fin
Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.
Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
Fraser River
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.
Free Willy
Free Willy is a 1993 American family drama film, directed by Simon Wincer, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Jennie Lew Tugend, written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman from a story by Walker and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures under their Family Entertainment imprint.
Friday Harbor, Washington
Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington, United States.
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Gentoo penguin
The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is a penguin species (or possibly a species complex) in the genus Pygoscelis, most closely related to the Adélie penguin (P. adeliae) and the chinstrap penguin (P. antarcticus).
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
Granny (orca)
Granny (born c. 1936-1951 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.
Gray whale
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale,Britannica Micro.: v. IV, p. 693.
Great white shark
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
Grey matter
Grey matter, or brain matter in American English, is a major component of the central nervous system, consisting of neuronal cell bodies, neuropil (dendrites and unmyelinated axons), glial cells (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes), synapses, and capillaries.
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch’) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.
Gull
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Haida people
The Haida (X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are an Indigenous group who have traditionally occupied italic, an archipelago just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, for at least 12,500 years.
Harbor seal
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. Orca and harbor seal are mammals described in 1758.
Harbour porpoise
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise. Orca and harbour porpoise are mammals described in 1758.
Harbour Publishing
Harbour Publishing is a Canadian independent book publisher.
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Haro Strait
The Haro Strait is one of the main channels connecting the Strait of Georgia to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, separating Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada from the San Juan Islands of Washington state in the United States.
Harpoon cannon
A harpoon cannon is a whaling implement developed in the late 19th century and most used in the 20th century.
Henry Thomas Riley
Henry Thomas Riley (June 1816 – 14 April 1878) was an English translator, lexicographer, and antiquary.
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Herbert Ponting
Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer.
Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
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Historia animalium (Gessner book)
("History of the Animals"), published in Zurich in 1551–1558 and 1587, is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565).
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History of whaling
This article discusses the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.
Hori River
The flows north to south through Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and is part of the Shōnai River system.
Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait (Détroit d'Hudson) in Nunavut links the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada.
Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. Orca and humpback whale are cosmopolitan mammals.
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Inbreeding
Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically.
Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political identities.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Infanticide (zoology)
In animals, infanticide involves the intentional killing of young offspring by a mature animal of the same species.
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Infanticide in carnivores
Infanticide is the killing of a neonate after birth.
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Ingrid Visser (biologist)
Ingrid Natasha Visser (born 20 February 1966) is a New Zealand marine biologist who studies orcas.
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International Fund for Animal Welfare
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is one of the largest animal welfare and conservation charities in the world.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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International Whaling Commission
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
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Isosceles triangle
In geometry, an isosceles triangle is a triangle that has two sides of equal length.
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John Bostock (physician)
John Bostock, Jr. FRS (baptised 29 June 1773, died 6 August 1846) was an English physician, scientist and geologist from Liverpool.
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Johnstone Strait
Johnstone Strait (Détroit de Johnstone) is a channel along the north east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Keiko (orca)
Keiko (– 12 December 2003) was a male orca captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland in 1979.
Ken Balcomb
Kenneth Chester Balcomb III (November 11, 1940 – December 15, 2022) was an American cetologist.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park is an American national park that comprises the Harding Icefield, its outflowing glaciers, and coastal fjords and islands.
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Killer whales of Eden, New South Wales
The killers of Eden or Twofold Bay killers were a group of killer whales (Orcinus orca) known for their co-operation with human hunters of cetacean species. Orca and killer whales of Eden, New South Wales are orcas.
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King penguin
The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin.
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.
Kwakwakaʼwakw
The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, also known as the Kwakiutl ("Kwakʼwala-speaking peoples"), are one of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology
This article is about the spiritual beliefs, histories and practices in Kwakwaka'wakw mythology.
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Lagenorhynchus
Lagenorhynchus is a genus of oceanic dolphins in the infraorder Cetacea, presently containing six extant species. Orca and Lagenorhynchus are animals that use echolocation.
Lead (sea ice)
A lead (rhymes with "reed") is a large fracture within an expanse of sea ice, defining a linear area of open water that can be used for navigation purposes.
List of cetaceans
Cetacea is an infraorder that comprises the 94 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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List of circus skills
Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows.
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List of marine mammal species
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders.
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Livyatan
Livyatan is an extinct genus of macroraptorial sperm whale containing one known species: L. melvillei.
Longline fishing
Longline fishing, or longlining, is a commercial fishing angling technique that uses a long main line with baited hooks attached at intervals via short branch lines called snoods or gangions.
Lummi people
The Lummi are a Central Coast Salish people Indigenous to western Washington, namely parts of the San Juan Islands and the mainland near what is now Bellingham, Washington.
Luna (orca)
L98 Luna (– 10 March 2006) also known as Tsux'iit, was an orca born in Puget Sound.
Madeira Park
Madeira Park is an unincorporated community in the area of Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
Mammal Review
Mammal Review is a zoology journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of The Mammal Society.
Marine Ecology Progress Series
The Marine Ecology Progress Series is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of marine ecology.
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Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.
Marine mammal park
A marine mammal park (also known as marine animal park and sometimes oceanarium) is a commercial theme park or aquarium where marine mammals such as dolphins, beluga whales and sea lions are kept within water tanks and displayed to the public in special shows.
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Marine Mammal Science
Marine Mammal Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all topics about or related to marine mammals.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
Marineland of Canada
Marineland (official name Marineland of Canada Inc.), is a themed zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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Maritime Archaic
The Maritime Archaic is a North American cultural complex of the Late Archaic along the coast of Newfoundland, the Canadian Maritimes and northern New England.
Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
McMurdo Sound
The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.
Melanism
Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
Michael Bigg
Michael Andrew Bigg (December 22, 1939 – October 18, 1990) was an English-born Canadian marine biologist who is recognized as the founder of modern research on killer whales.
Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
The is a Cabinet-level ministry of the government of Japan responsible for global environmental conservation, pollution control, and nature conservation.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Minnesota Zoo
The Minnesota Zoo (formerly the Minnesota Zoological Garden) is an AZA-accredited zoo in Apple Valley, Minnesota.
Mobbing (animal behavior)
Mobbing in animals is an antipredator adaptation in which individuals of prey species cooperatively attack or harass a predator, usually to protect their offspring.
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Moby Doll
Captured in 1964, Moby Doll (–9 October 1964) was the first orca to survive in captivity for more than two days, and the second to be displayed in a public aquarium exhibit.
Moby Doll's impact in scientific research
Moby Doll, who in 1964 in British Columbia became the second ever captive orca, was the first orca (killer whale) to be studied scientifically at close quarters alive. Orca and Moby Doll's impact in scientific research are animals that use echolocation.
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Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces. Orca and moose are mammals described in 1758.
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Narwhal
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a species of toothed whale native to the Arctic. Orca and narwhal are mammals described in 1758.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Marine Fisheries Service
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), informally known as NOAA Fisheries, is a United States federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that is responsible for the stewardship of U.S. national marine resources.
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
New Zealand eagle ray
The New Zealand eagle ray or Australian eagle ray (Myliobatis tenuicaudatus) is an eagle ray of the family Myliobatidae, found in bays, estuaries, and near rocky reefs around New Zealand and southern Australia on the inner continental shelf.
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Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Newshub
Newshub (stylised as Newshub.) was a New Zealand news service that aired on the television channel Three, and on digital platforms, until July 2024.
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North Vancouver (city)
The City of North Vancouver is a city municipality on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet, in British Columbia, Canada.
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Northern Norway
Northern Norway (Nord-Norge,, Nord-Noreg; Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.
Northwest Coast art
Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Nuu-chah-nulth
The Nuu-chah-nulth (Nuučaan̓uł), also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada.
Oceanic dolphin
Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae are a widely distributed family of dolphins that live in the sea.
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
Old Tom (orca)
Old Tom (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.
Orca attacks
Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. Orca and Orca attacks are orcas.
Orcaella
The snubfin dolphins (Orcaella) are a genus of cetaceans containing two members: the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) and the Australian snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni).
Orcinus
Orcinus is a genus of Delphinidae, the family of carnivorous marine mammals known as dolphins.
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Orcinus citoniensis
Orcinus citoniensis is an extinct species of orca identified in the Late Pliocene of Italy and the Early Pleistocene of England.
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Orcus
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Pacific white-sided dolphin
The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens), also known as the hookfin porpoise, is an active dolphin found in the cool or temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean.
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Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. Orca and Pilot whale are animals that use echolocation and cosmopolitan mammals.
Pink salmon
Pink salmon or humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
Play (activity)
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
PLOS Biology
PLOS Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology.
Pneumonia (non-human)
Pneumonia is an irritation of the lungs caused by different sources.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Polychlorinated biphenyl
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are small dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae. Orca and Porpoise are animals that use echolocation.
Port au Choix Archaeological Site
Port au Choix is a peninsula on the western coast of the island of Newfoundland, Canada.
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Pregnancy (mammals)
In mammals, pregnancy is the period of reproduction during which a female carries one or more live offspring from implantation in the uterus through gestation.
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Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound (Sugpiaq: Suungaaciq) is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
Pygmy killer whale
The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin. Orca and pygmy killer whale are cosmopolitan mammals.
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Race (biology)
In biological taxonomy, race is an informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy for which various definitions exist.
Rep-un-kamuy
Rep-un-Kamuy is the Ainu kamuy (god) of the sea.
Risso's dolphin
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is a dolphin, the only species of the genus Grampus. Orca and Risso's dolphin are cosmopolitan mammals.
Rockhopper penguin
The rockhopper penguins are three closely related taxa of crested penguins that have been traditionally treated as a single species and are sometimes split into three species.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship.
Sakhalin
Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.
Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
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Saturna Island
Saturna Island is a mountainous island, about in size, in the Southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia, Canada.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Sea lion
Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly.
Sea otter
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Orca and sea otter are mammals described in 1758.
Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira.
Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
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SeaWorld
SeaWorld is an American theme park chain with headquarters in Orlando, Florida.
Seto Inland Sea
The, sometimes shortened to the Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, three of the four main islands of Japan.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
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Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki city hall is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Short-tail stingray
The short-tail stingray or smooth stingray (Bathytoshia brevicaudata) is a common species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.
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Shortfin mako shark
The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), also known as the shortfin mako, blue pointer, or bonito shark, is a large mackerel shark.
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Siberian Yupik
Siberian Yupiks, or Yuits (Юиты), are a Yupik people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
Simian
The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes) of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes.
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Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is an institutional archives and library system comprising 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers.
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Smooth hammerhead
The smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae.
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Snæfellsnes
The Snæfellsnes is a peninsula situated to the west of Borgarfjörður, in western Iceland.
In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals.
Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.
Society for Marine Mammalogy
The Society for Marine Mammalogy was founded in 1981 and is the largest international association of marine mammal scientists in the world.
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Sockeye salmon
The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it.
South American sea lion
The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia), also called the southern sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found on the western and southeastern coasts of South America.
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Southern elephant seal
The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of two species of elephant seals. Orca and southern elephant seal are mammals described in 1758.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
Southern resident orcas
The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales (SRKW), are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Orca and southern resident orcas are orcas.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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Species at Risk Act
The Species at Risk Act (Loi sur les espèces en péril, SARA) is a piece of Canadian federal legislation which became law in Canada on December 12, 2002.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. Orca and sperm whale are animals that use echolocation, cosmopolitan mammals and mammals described in 1758.
Springer (orca)
Springer (born), officially named A73, is a wild orca from the Northern Resident Community of orcas, which frequents the waters off the northern part of Vancouver Island every summer.
Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion) is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly found in the coastal marine habitats of the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, from north-central California to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to Alaska.
Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Washington County.
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Strait of Georgia
The Strait of Georgia (Détroit de Géorgie) or the Georgia Strait is an arm of the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, and the extreme northwestern mainland coast of Washington, United States.
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Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Surplus killing
Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, or overkill, is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder.
Sympatry
In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.
Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
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Terra Nova Expedition
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.
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Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.
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The Asahi Shimbun
is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Orange County Register
The Orange County Register is a paid daily newspaper published in California.
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The Quarto Group
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thorntail stingray
The thorntail stingray, black stingray, or longtail stingray (Dasyatis thetidis) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.
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Threatened species
A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future.
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Tilikum (orca)
Tilikum (Document shown in documentary Blackfish states "born 12/1981". – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida.
Tlingit
The Tlingit or Lingít are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022) federally recognized Tribes of Alaska.
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Tokyo Bay
is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.
Toothed whale
The toothed whales (also called odontocetes, systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and the sperm whales. Orca and toothed whale are animals that use echolocation.
Trophic level
The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web.
Underwater acoustics
Underwater acoustics (also known as hydroacoustics) is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water, its contents and its boundaries.
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Unimak Island
Unimak Island (Unimax, Унимак) is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered mammals and birds
This is a list of the bird and mammal species and subspecies described as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Valdés Peninsula
The Valdes Peninsula (Spanish: Península Valdés) is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean in the Viedma Department of north-east Chubut Province, Argentina.
Vestfjorden
Vestfjorden (sometimes shortened to Vestfjord in English) is a long fjord or oceanic sea in Nordland county, Norway.
Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. Orca and walrus are mammals described in 1758.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Weaning
Weaning is the process of gradually introducing an infant human or another mammal to what will be its adult diet while withdrawing the supply of its mother's milk.
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Weddell seal
The Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
The Western Canada Wilderness Committee (often shortened to Wilderness Committee) is a non-profit environmental education organization that aims to protect Canada's wild spaces and species.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
Whale and Dolphin Conservation
Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), formerly Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society in the UK, is a wildlife charity that is dedicated solely to the worldwide conservation and welfare of all whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans).
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Whale oil
Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales.
Whale shark
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.
Whale watching
Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.
Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that states its mission as saving "wildlife and wild places across the globe".
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Wildlife photo-identification
Photo-identification is a technique used to identify and track individuals of a wild animal study population over time.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Orca and wolf are mammals described in 1758.
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World Animal Protection
World Animal Protection, formerly The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), is an international non-profit animal welfare organization that has been in operation since 1981.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Animals that use echolocation
- Aerodramus
- Bat
- Bats
- Blarina
- Brown rat
- Cephalorhynchus
- Common shrew
- Dolphin
- Kogiidae
- La Plata dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus
- Microbat
- Moby Doll's impact in scientific research
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Oilbird
- Orca
- Pilot whale
- Porpoise
- River dolphin
- Sorex
- Sperm whale
- Swiftlet
- Tenrec
- Toothed whale
- Toothed whales
- Vagrant shrew
Cosmopolitan mammals
- Blue whale
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Brown rat
- Cat
- Cattle
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Dog
- False killer whale
- Fin whale
- Fraser's dolphin
- House mouse
- Human
- Humans
- Humpback whale
- Japanese house mouse
- Laboratory mouse
- Orca
- Pilot whale
- Pygmy killer whale
- Pygmy sperm whale
- Rabbit
- Risso's dolphin
- Rough-toothed dolphin
- Sheep
- Sperm whale
- Striped dolphin
Orcas
- A1 Pod
- A30 matriline
- A4 pod
- A5 pod
- Captive orcas
- Carousel feeding
- Dougal Robertson
- Eden Killer Whale Museum
- Iberian orca attacks
- Killer whales of Eden, New South Wales
- List of captive orcas
- Northern resident orcas
- Orca
- Orca Welfare and Safety Act
- Orca attacks
- Orca types and populations
- Orcas in popular culture
- Salish Sea orcas
- Seattle Center Totem
- Southern resident orcas
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca
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