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Killer Whales Love to Dine on Chinook Salmon, Which Could Further Endanger Their Future
Animals  (tags: killer whales, endangered, survival, chinook salmon )

Simone
- 80 days ago - oregonlive.com
Killer whales attack prey as large as gray whales and as small as herring. But the killer whales of the San Juan Islands prefer to eat chinook salmon -- and that could be their ruin. Researchers tracking the whales found their numbers fell sharply
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Killer Whales Die Without King Salmon
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, salmon, death, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 92 days ago - enn.com
Some killer whale populations favor king salmon so much that the whales will actually die when numbers of this largest member of the salmon family drop, according to new research.
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Screaming to Be Heard Over Ship Noise Is Taking It Out of Killer Whales
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, screaming, noise, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 95 days ago - treehugger.com
Researchers have found that because of nearby ship noise, killer whales are having to make louder sounds to be able to communicate with one another. A particular group of killer whales in Washington's Puget Sound, called the Southern Residents, seem to
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Amazing Pictures of the Seal Who Narrowly Escaped Becoming a Snack for a Killer Whale
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, seals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 171 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
These dramatic pictures reveal the stunning hunting skills of a killer whale and show the extremes the mammals will go to in order to catch its prey.
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Free Lolita the Killer Whale ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, captivity, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 174 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Free Lolita the killer whale!!!!!!!!! Lolita is a whale who is 47 or 48 years old and was brutally captured from her family when she was six. And now is living in an illegal tank that is not is not big enough for one killer whale. She has not seen
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Canada at a Legal Crossroads on Future of Orcas and Other Species at Risk
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, lawsuit, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 240 days ago - ifaw.org
A groundbreaking lawsuit about the future of resident fish-eating killer whales and the responsibility of the federal government to enforce the Species at Risk Act (SARA) is headed back to court today.
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Fight to Protect Endangered Killer Whales Far From Over
Animals  (tags: animals, killer whales, habitat, lawsuit, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 240 days ago - ifaw.org
A lawsuit to protect Canada's two populations of resident fish-eating killer whales is back in court today as environmental groups fight for legal protection of their critical habitat.
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Canadian Killer Whales Face Extinction
Animals  (tags: canada, killer whales, endangered, declining, populations, extinction, tragedy )

Simone
- 434 days ago - iar.org.uk
Killer whales in British Columbia's waters could be extinct in as little as a century, wildlife experts have warned. Only 87 resident killer whales now live off the Canadian province, after a 20 per cent decline between 1993 and 2003, and to protect
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Killer Whales Spotted in Abu Dhabi Waters
Animals  (tags: killer whales, UAE, marine life, sightings, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 557 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A group Emirati men sighted a very unusual visitor of close to Abu Dhabi island: An orca, or Killer whale. Although the United Arab Emirates is home to more than a third of the 80 known species of cetaceans, few Killer whales have been spotted in
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Caught On Tape: Killer Whales Beach Themselves During Hunt
Animals  (tags: killer whales, defy death, catching prey, hungry, beaching, video tapes, wild animals, survival )

Simone
- 607 days ago - knbc.com
Reuters has obtained amazing video of killer whales beaching themselves while they're hunting in Argentina. Sea lions are formidable hunters, but in this situation, they're the prey. Hundreds of feet off the coast of Punta Norte, a pod of 30 killer
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Killer Whale Sighted Off Coast of Nova Scotia
Animals  (tags: killer whales, sightings, Canada, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, wildlife )

Cher
- 623 days ago - novanewsnow.com
Jamie Peterson will never forget the sight he saw in late March while aboard the Gladiator 3 fishing on the Scotian Shelf. A killer whale spent two days cavorting about the long liner while Peterson and other crewmembers, Kelly Chase and Ricky Carrigan,
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Rare White Killer Whale Spotted in Alaskan Waters
Animals  (tags: killer whales, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 646 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Scientists conducting research in the North Pacific have sighted a very rare white Killer whale, or Orca. The white killer whale was spotted with its pod about two miles off Kanaga Volcano, part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
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Elusive White Whale Spotted
Animals  (tags: orcas, killer whales, whales, discovery, alaska )

John
- 650 days ago - aksuperstation.com
Government researchers spotted a rare white killer whale in the Aleutian Islands. The whale was spotted on February 23rd among a pod of normally colored whales.
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Endangered Killer Whales Emerging in Monterey Bay - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: killer whales, sighting, endangered, monterey bay )

Simone
- 660 days ago - santacruzsentinel.com
The 65-foot Sea Wolf II and its dozen or so passengers were making their way through the rough waters of the Monterey Bay when something caught their attention. "We were trying to figure out what was attracting gulls to the area when suddenly we saw
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Endangered Killer Whales Emerging in Monterey Bay
Animals  (tags: killer whales, migratory behaviour, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 662 days ago - santacruzsentinel.com
This is the fifth year since 2000, Black says, that these resident killer whales have been spotted in the Monterey Bay, and the sixth year they've been seen in California, a migratory behavior some researchers think the whales have adopted because they're
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