Sentences with phrase «orca who»

In addition to over 200 Northern Resident Orca who return every summer, to gorge on salmon and rub themselves on the beaches of the Robson Bight Ecological Reserve, we are visited year round by pods of Transient Killer Whales, while Humpback Whales forage our narrow straits.

The film discusses the dangers to humans and the orcas who are confined in theme parks.

The method is best known from the world of marine mammal training where trainers need a way to communicate with large animals like dolphins and orcas who can not be controlled physically.

We turn our attention to the Orcas who can be extremely hard to track — but luckily we have the help of a helicopter.

Not exact matches

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 year.

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

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

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.

It was during this time, in 1993, that Keiko made animal stardom when he «played» a leading role in the hit film Free Willy, which tells the story of a boy who befriends and eventually releases a captive orca.

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

But Heidi Harley, a comparative psychologist at the New College of Florida in Sarasota who has studied cetaceans at a variety of marine parks and was advising SeaWorld on improving its orca enclosure in San Diego, California, says important work on breeding and physiology was being done.

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.

Love, which reunites Haneke with Piano Teacher star Isabelle Huppert, is about a retired music teacher who has a stroke, while Rust and Bone, Audiard's first film since A Prophet, features Marion Cotillard as an aqua park employee who loses her legs in an accident involving an orca.

Marion Cotillard plays Steph, a free - spirited Orca trainer at a Sea World type facility, who becomes a double amputee after a freak work site accident.

In «Rust and Bone,» Cotillard plays Stephanie, an orca trainer who loses her legs in a tragic accident.

The main focus in Blackfish is a male orca named Tilikum, who has been linked to three human deaths.

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.

French character actors Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners and Celine Sallette co-star and the story is rumored to be based, at least in part, around one of the shorts about a marine park Orca trainer who loses his leg and then joins Unlimbited Potential, a support group made of addict - amputees.

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.

Marion Cotillard stars in the film and set photos like the one above suggest she'll be playing a marine park Orca trainer who loses her leg and then joins Unlimbited Potential, a support group made of addict - amputees.

Much of the film's effectiveness is due to the vigor and vigilance of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who brings the keen eye of a documentarian (her 2013 exposé Blackfish shined a light on the plight of captive orcas at SeaWorld) to her debut in features.

The movie takes as its departure point the 2010 killing of Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau by the orca Tilikum (who had killed before, apparently), and then examines the rise of Sea World and the inhumane conditions under which these orcas live, which can lead to the kind of psychopathic behavior seen in Tilikum.

Which is a good thing, because my defenses would surely have gone up had I been aware in advance that Cotillard plays an orca trainer at Marineland who loses both of her legs just above the knee almost as soon as she's introduced.

FarFaria's CEO and co-founder Ajay Godhwani spoke to Good e-Reader about the platform and the partnerships they have with publishers like Orca Books — along with a Big Five publisher who will be named in an announcement this week — as well as offered a guided tour through how young children interact with their texts.

HLS SALDF also addressed the popular issue of wild animals in captivity through talks by Chris Green, former ALDF legislative director (and current executive director of the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School), who spoke about legal developments in this area, and Death at SeaWorld author David Kirby, who spoke on the plight of captive orcas.

Nowadays, whale watch operators who can't show orcas to their passengers can almost count on humpbacks to fill in the gap.

It's dark when I get up at 6 am, the first hint of a new day on the horizon; the forest floor has turned gold and green as the cedars shed their summer cloak; honeysuckle leaves litter the boardwalks and garden ground; bright red honeysuckle berries are being plucked by tiny wrens; jays are sitting in the apple tree, feasting on the fruit we imagined as apple pie; the last roses are fading; fronds of great bull kelp are landing on the beach, food for next year's garden; the sudden daybreak howl of sporty boats heading to the hot fishing spots where we have our hydrophones has gone; sea lions are beginning to heave their huge bodies onto haul - out rocks along the way; most of our assistants have left, heading back to school or home; and in their absence we are spending more time in the lab at night, recording the voices of the orcas, who are still here.

The little orphan orca, who's dramatic rescue and return to her family captivated the world in 2002, is now 6 years old and a fully functional member of her A4 pod and Northern Resident orca community.

It's been rather uncanny over the years, to note how often the space left by absent resident orcas is filled by transient orcas, who somehow manage to show up and save a thin whale watching day.

Our kayak day trips are a great way to get out and explore the Johnstone Strait area for those who do not have time for our longer Base Camp kayak tours or Orca Waters Explorer kayak tours.

These Orcas, who will prey on Pacific White - sided Dolphins, showed little interest but the dolphins moved quickly in the other direction.

Supplementing the acoustic data are visual sightings of orcas as they pass OrcaLab, and reports from land observation sites during the summer «season» as well as reports from other researchers and whale watchers who share observations and information.

Jason Westby, a freelance tour guide who operates fishing tours in conjunction with a number of local resorts, including Chabil Mar, spotted the three orcas between 9:30 and 10:30 AM on December 29, 2016, in the vicinity of Ranguana Caye and Palm Owens Caye on the Belize Barrier Reef.

Perfect for families with teens or novice kayakers who want to experience the magic of close orca encounters.

Black, who co-owns Monterey Bay Whale Watch, says a family of nine killer whales has taken part in all of the attacks, but the first killing involved 33 orcas.

There were an estimated 31 fish eating orca working the tidal currents, and mixed in with them were humpback whales who were also feeding!

What does it mean to have scattered the cloud of witnesses — bear, wolf, orca, eagle, seal — who gathered so faithfully each year through the centuries to celebrate the salmon's return?

More recent trips caught footage of a pod of orcas teaching its young how to hunt, which digitally raced around the world of marine mammal scientists, participated in a penguin census, and logged polar bear and whale identification photos for researchers who track global populations of these animals.

Surfdaddy Orca November 9, 2009 In the new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats, reporter Bob Wilton confronts Special Forces operator Lyn Cassady, «I've heard that you're a psychic spy.»

But the best way to see orca whales is to hire a boat to visit the resident whale pods who feed along Haro Strait near San Juan Island.

The SeaWorld legal team dismissed the case as a waste of time, the BBC reported, but Jeffrey Kerr, who represents the orcas and PETA, said:

Other Democrats skewered here include President Jimmy Carter, who is depicted saying, «Hi, a «hm a dumbass,» and Sen. Ted Kennedy, who is described as «Sen. Drunkenslob (the Cape Cod Orca).»

Today's whalers run rigid inflatables at 50 knots, filled with tourists hoping for an orca or grey whale but who will settle for a seal or dolphin.