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This protected area was established in 1982 primarily for the protection of the near two hundred killer whales who travel through this area.
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The most common type spotted in the Monterey Bay is the transient killer whales who will hunt seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises and whales (typically gray whale calves and minke whales).
KEIKO, the killer whale who starred in the Free Willy films, is about to go home — but probably not to freedom.
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.
Nearby on the ground lies a mopey body pillow of Tilikum, the deceased killer whale who gained notoriety after killing multiple people as an attraction at SeaWorld Orlando.
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She was featured in the documentary by reporter Victoria Gill and producer Andrew Luck - Baker on menopause among female killer whales, who stop having babies in their 30s or 40s.
Victoria Gill and Andrew Luck - Baker of BBC Radio 4 won the Gold Award in the audio category for a story on menopause among killer whales and the role of sprightly matriarchs who can be seen breaching the coastal waterways between British Columbia and Washington state.
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.
«It gives us a real jump start in knowing what to be looking for,» says Steve Ferguson, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada who led a survey of traditional knowledge on killer whales in Nunavut waters.
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.
«We had no idea what they were even feeding on in the Atlantic, but eventually it has became more and more clear that minke whales are the predominant prey source for certain killer whales in our area,» explained Stevens, who published a field guide to whales and dolphins in Atlantic Canada in 2013.
«It would be great to have satellite tags on a few individuals to learn about finer scale movement patterns and to see with greater resolution who they interact with, where they spend their time, what they do in winter, and whether there are any fish - eating killer whales.»
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.
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
«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.
«I think the move is a good decision for killer whales, who can travel up to 160 km in a day,» he says.
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.
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.
In an early voiceover, she states she has always been obsessed with killer whales, those huge creatures who are «always smiling.»
Megan Leavey is directed by Gabriella Cowperthwaithe who struck a blow for ending the captivity of Killer Whales with her award - winning doc Blackfish.
A truly unsettling, informative documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite about killer whales in captivity; specifically a killer whale named Tilikum who has been responsible for the deaths of three individuals while in captivity.
Watching Rust and Bone, which Sony Pictures Classics acquired preemptively before its first Cannes screening, it's easy to imagine all of the ways in which Hollywood might have fouled up this story of a killer - whale trainer (Marion Cotillard) who loses both her legs in a freak accident and, during her recovery, enters into a tentative romance with a stoic drifter (Matthias Schoenaerts) who moonlights as an amateur MMA fighter.
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.
The film stars Marion Cotillard as a killer whale trainer who suffers a horrible accident, but develops a bond with a man (Bullhead «s Matthias Schoenaerts) who has...
Whishaw, who got his breakthrough in the adaptation of the serial killer novel Perfume, is playing Herman Melville in the Ron Howard - directed The Heart Of The Sea, the Warner Bros film that stars Chris Hemsworth about the actual whale attack that spawned Melville's Moby Dick.
The target was J - 26 (aka «Mike», named after deceased pioneering killer whale biologist Michael Bigg) a 21 year old who is -LSB-...]
We are recruiting helpers for two periods; - late August to mid December: focus is elephant seal breeding, killer whale predation on weaned elephant seal pups, establishment of pairs and territories by skuas - mid December to late March: focus is elephant seal moulting, genaral killer whale activity and behavior, intensive study of skuas behaviour and communication, monitoring of breeding of marine birds and raptors, collection of general environmental data Only applicants who can stay for a whole period (about 3 months and a half) can be taken into consideration.
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.
Our intrepid guides - who looked entirely too healthy and well adjusted - discussed the rules and logistics of our proposed excursion into Johnstone Strait, known for its concentrations of killer whales.
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.
«It is one of the few places on the gray whale migration where they have to leave the protection of the shore,» said Black, who has been studying killer whales since 1992 and is considered the Bay Area's foremost expert.
In a Feb. 25 post playing on the recent killer whale incident at Sea World (a post which can no longer be read thanks to a temporary restraining order granted against HAN by a Louisiana state judge), HAN wrote about the supposed fate of «veteran wildlife guide Dizzy Dimarco» who was said to have been thrown into the upper limbs of a tree while feeding giraffes at Global Wildlife.