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Like two killer whales at Sea World, they're itching to frolic in the deep blue ocean of video games that promise an exciting 2018.

Kayak with Killer Whales at our Orca base camp in Johnstone Strait, or take one of our kayak expeditions to Desolation Sound or the Discovery Islands.

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Kayak with Killer Whales at their Orca base camp in Johnstone Strait, or take one of their kayak expeditions to Desolation Sound or the Discovery Islands of British Columbia.

That federal regulators can condone throwing explosives at orcas in one location and propose banning kayaking with killer whales at another is simply beyond belief!

Drones present significant advantages over land - based and boat - based observations, because the drone permits to observe killer whales at close distance, with a view from the top, without disturbing their behavior.

That's makes sense to Richard Connor, an animal behaviorist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, who studies wild dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, and who supervised a student who studied killer whales at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

Not exact matches

In the wild, killer whales swim on average 3 to 4 mph and can sprint at speeds up to 34 mph.

A killer whale during a performance at Sea World.

I've been eating like a killer whale for the past few weeks, so it's time to get more veggies at home.

«It's not about killer whales,» continued Liu, unable to resist a dig at nearby Sea World.

During his time in Albany, he was involved in an alleged altercation at a diner, claimed a Salvadoran gang left a dead goat on his doorstep, and introduced a bill memo on killer whales that was plagiarized from a 17 - year - old Chicago resident.

Scientists recorded Wikie at her home in Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France, imitating another killer whale's loud «raspberry» sounds, as well as a trumpeting elephant and humans saying such words as «one, two,...

Killer whale hearing is best at around 20 kHz, so it is hard for them to detect a porpoise,» explains Lee Miller.

They point at the porpoise's greatest enemy: the killer whale.

Besides avoiding killer whales, there is another advantage: It is also at these frequencies that natural noise in the ocean is the lowest.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

Scientists recorded Wikie at her home in Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France, imitating another killer whale's loud «raspberry» sounds, as well as a trumpeting elephant and humans saying such words as «one, two, three.»

Killer whales need to eat at least seven otters a day to meet minimal nutritional needs, according to calculations by researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Not all orcas are slaughtering sea mammals — at least not on North America's West Coast, where killer whales have been studied closely by scientists.

«A lot of the attacks are unsuccessful, but our research indicates that killer whales almost always test humpbacks,» says John Calambokidis, a research biologist at the Cascadia Research Collective, which does marine mammal studies in Puget Sound, as well as in the eastern and North Pacific.

Although there are no official counts, the number of killer whales is believed to be relatively stable, at 30,000 to 80,000 worldwide.

Learning from Inuit hunters that killer whales use specific methods to hunt bowheads, beluga, narwhal and seals, Ferguson discovered at least two different killer whale groups based on prey preferences.

The researchers also found evidence that killer whales can learn completely new sounds: one killer whale that was living with dolphins at the time of the experiment learned to produce a chirp sequence that human caretakers had taught to her dolphin pool - mates before she was introduced to them.

But killer whales are also found in the North Atlantic, and a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island is the first to investigate the ecology of the orcas that live around Newfoundland and Labrador.

According to Tara Stevens, who will earn her doctorate at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography later this year, about 200 killer whales are believed to live in the area, most of which are seen in the summer months around Newfoundland.

The killer whale, whose real name was Keiko, died in December 2003, at about 26 years old.

British biologist Andrew Foote at the University of Durham recently discovered that the calls of killer whales off the West Coast of the United States have lengthened significantly in recent years, apparently to counter engine noise from the growing fleet of whale - watching boats.

SeaWorld has been given permission to build a large pool at its killer whale theme park in San Diego, California — but only if it stops breeding them and bringing in new orcas to its park.

The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

SeaWorld announced today that it will end orca breeding at all of its marine parks and phase out its killer whale shows.

The new work came about when Darren Croft, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues looked back on their 2015 killer whale menopause study.

Now that Mainland et al have published «The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire» and Foote et al have published «Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages,» the similarities at the top of the aquatic and terrestrial food chains attest to the power of conserved molecular mechanisms to link cause and effect across all species via olfaction and odor receptors, which is what I detailed in the review I submitted last week.

DeRuiter BRS Presentation at Quebec SMM 09 This presentation also assesses vocal responses during BRS - 07 / 08, but also looks at other focal cetacean species (false killer whales and melon - headed whales) and identifies vocal «mimicry» of sonar sounds in false killer whales.

We found that PCBs were at excessively high concentrations in the blubber of several marine apex predator species across Europe, including killer whales and bottlenose dolphins, and were associated with long - term and on - going population declines.

From the magic of the Walt Disney World to the Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the Shamu's (Killer Whale) ultimate show at Sea World to the world of Legos at Legoland, you name it and Orlando has everything to offer!

(At one point, Moll compares herself to a captive killer whale — smiling but deranged.)

He is arguably the world's best known killer whale, or orca, and currently resides at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

The reputation of the original 1975 flick may have been somewhat tarnished by the various bad sequels (none of them involving director Spielberg) and a horde of lousy imitators (such as Piranha, Orca - the Killer Whale and the like), but this is mostly in the minds of people who haven't seen the original in quite a while or at all.

One of the year's most controversial documentaries tells the story of Tilikum, a killer whale who killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010; that wasn't the first human death in which he was involved.

THE DVD Paramount's DVD release of Orca (the packaging calls it Orca: The Killer Whale) is adequate at best.

When my children were young, we went to the killer whale (orca) shows at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Have a camera ready to go at all times More than once an announcement was made overhead by the captain or the excursion leader saying they had spotted killer whales, leopard seals or a beautiful location, such as Elephant Island, that you didn't want to miss.

Dolphins and killer whales are not the only thing leaping high at this top attraction in early spring.

Multiple killer whales were zooming in and out of the area when we turned our attention to the south to see even more killer whales porpoising our direction, eager to arrive at the attack site.

Robson Bight is a small bay at the west end of JohnstoneStrait that is home to a protected killer whale habitat famous for its whale - rubbing beaches.

Often referred to as «Home of the Killer Whale», the village is located at the top of Johnstone Strait on Cormorant Island, a crescent shaped island three miles in length and a half mile wide.

At Sea Lion Island, the main killer whale target are the elephant seals.

Poster on killer whale sociality during predation events, to be presented at the next meeting of the Italian Zoologist Union (PDF file)