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A New Zealand man has been fined over a social media video in which he tries to “body slam” an orca swimming next to his boat. Man is fined for trying to 'body slam' killer whale Skip to main ...
Tilikum ( c. December 1981[ 1] – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, [ 2] was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida. He was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [ 3] He was subsequently transferred in 1992 to ...
Delphinus gladiator Bonnaterre, 1789. Orca gladiator (Bonnaterre, 1789) The orca ( Orcinus orca ), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in the genus Orcinus. Orcas are recognizable by their black-and-white patterned body.
Lolita, also called Tokitae[ 6] or Toki for short, ( c. 1966 – 18 August 2023), [ 3] was a captive female orca of the southern resident population captured from the wild in September 1970 and held in captivity and displayed at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida until her death in August 2023. [ 7] At the time of her death, Lolita was the second ...
A lucky diver in the Maldives had an incredible experience when he encountered a blue whale who didn't seem to mind sharing space with him at all. The diver was filmed swimming alongside the huge ...
Orcas(or killer whales) 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.[1] In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and four fatal attacks on humans since the 1970s.[2]
Iberian orca attacks. Beginning in 2020, a subpopulation of orcas ( Orcinus orca) began ramming boats and attacking their rudders in waters off the Iberian Peninsula. The behaviour has generally been directed towards slow-moving, medium-sized sailboats in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Portuguese, Moroccan and Galician coasts.
Old Tom (c. 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. Old Tom was believed to be the leader of a pod of orcas which helped the whalers by herding baleen whales into Twofold Bay . [ 1 ]