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Would you like to lead kayak trips in the best waters for observing orca whales in the United States?

Photo of Orca Whales in Johnstone Strait near the Robson Bight Reserve off Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada

While super quiet sea kayaks are now accused of being a threat to orca whales in the San Juan Islands by a misguided and misinformed National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the same agency remains silent about the US Navy plans to increase ocean warfare training and testing of new sonar devices in the killer whales» home waters.

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

Both species of orca whales in the San Juans apparently live throughout the world but more study is needed to confirm this.

NMFS has rightly concluded that orca whales in the San Juan Islands are not always capable of finding enough salmon to survive.

Balcomb's Center for Whale Research just released their population summary for Washington's orca whales in 2010.

We highly recommend you click this link to read the article in the Daily Mail and enjoy four incredible photographs of orca whales in action.

Then consider joining us on a killer whale watching kayak tour in the San Juan Islands for a chance to observe orca whales in the wild.

The San Juan Islands, just north of Seattle, Washington, are the best place in the world to view orca whales in the wild.

See us Kayaking with Orca Whales in the San Juan Islands.

Our last blog entry discussed the dangers from a new study that involves dart tagging the resident orca whales in Washington — the same friendly orcas we enjoy watching on our kayaking tours in the San Juan Islands.

Jacques Cousteau declared Telegraph Cove as one of the best places in the world to observe Orca Whales in the wild.

This morning we sail north, passing the famed Roche Harbor on our way to view orca whales in one of their favorite gathering places.

I didn't want to look like an Orca whale in a tux.

A kayaker within arm's distance of an orca whale in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia.

Photo of a male kayaking very close to a Orca Whale in Weynton Pass (Johnstone Strait), British Columbia, Canada.

Not exact matches

One sits quietly near the entrance, organizing a luxury kayaking trip for a family to see orcas and humpback whales in British Columbia.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this yeaIn Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this yeain comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

This fall, lawmakers in California made yet another dramatic move in response to the company's Orca show: They passed a law outlawing breeding the whales in captivity.

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

Evidence for vocal learning in juvenile male killer whales, (Orcinus orca), from an adventitious cross-socializing experiment.

According to a new theory of predation — published late last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)-- humans sharply reduced the orcas» main source of food in the 1950s with the postwar explosion of industrial whaling.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

In addition, a global theory of killer whale predation depends on educated — and far - flung — guesses of how many marine mammals may have been killed by orcas over a set period of time.

Branch had estimated early last year that orcas may have been a factor in the disappearance of half the minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere.

* Correction, 8 October, 2:24 p.m.: In the video, Ann Bowles describes the difference between killer whale and bottlenose dolphin whistles, not killer whale and orca whistles, as was previously reported.

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning: when socialized with bottlenose dolphins, they shifted the types of sounds they made to more closely match their social partners.

Keiko was born into a wild group of killer whales, also called orca, in Icelandic waters.

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.

An orca called Wikie who learned to mimic human speech could teach us a lot about killer whale culture — but that's no reason to keep orcas in captivity

As the agency responsible for conserving and managing killer whales in U.S. waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faces a major challenge — it must identify orca subpopulations, understand their needs, and develop effective and sometimes unique ways to manage them.

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.

To find out if differences in diet and culture have also led to two species of killer whales in the Northeast Atlantic, Foote and his colleagues studied the dietary choices and genetic relationships of orcas from Greenland to Norway.

Some killer whale observers have proposed that the orcas in the Northeast Atlantic also likely comprise two species, because some pods appear to be fish specialists, while others prefer marine mammals.

Now, scientists report online today in PeerJ that commercial ships entering Haro Strait where the orcas live (as shown in the photo above), are likely interfering with the calls the whales make to communicate and locate prey.

The findings suggest that a captive whale's ability to deftly mimic unfamiliar noises hints that imitation likely plays an important role in building orcas» unique «vocal traditions.»

In 2014, about 60 bigger whales were stranded, including 20 long - finned pilot whales, 15 minke whales, and one humpback, one orca and one beluga whale.

And in 2006, scientists reported in the journal Biology Letters that a killer whale in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, could imitate a sea lion's bark — likely because the orca was solitary «and striving for attention,» said Griffin, one of the researchers who analyzed those calls.

Among the many other marine animals dwelling in American coasts whose populations have fallen and struggling to recover or persist are orca, beluga whales, manatees, otters, seals, and sea lions.

In the surrounding Pacific Northwest area visitors can hike miles of trails, explore natural caves and kayak with Orca whales.

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

Whale researchers are studying the diminishing Orca population in Free Willy 3: The Rescue.

Whether the bond is with a woman who has lost the will to live, an Orca whale (both seen in «Rust and Bone»), a cheating wife - beater («Mystery»), a ghost («Mekong Hotel»), or a male prostitute («Paradise: Love»), things don't always turn out for the best.

Blackfish is the doc, from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, which opens the book on Seaworld and the mistreatment of the Orca whales they keep in captivity.

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.

I guess Orca is «guilty» of anthropomorphizing whales, but it's a lot more savvy about the ramifications in doing so than critics have given it credit for.

Dogs involved in the Conservation Canines program are not landbound but go out to sea as well, leading scientists to orca whales by detecting the scent of their scat while on board a boat.

(Whale and Dolphin Conservation Press Release) In the aftermath of SeaWorld's announcement to end its captive breeding program for orcas Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) has a launched a new campaign calling on people not to swim with captive whales and dolphins.