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 Animals  Jacquelin - 1 day ago - telegraph.co.uk Orcas are known for the precision of their displays in sealife centres around the world but rarely are such performances witnessed in the wild.However, wildlife photographer Rolf Hicker captured this trio off Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
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 Animals Jacquelin - 1 day ago - suntimes.com VANCOUVER, British Columbia---- Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country's Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia.
Ecojustice, on behalf of eight environmental organizations,
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 Animals Jacquelin - 3 days ago - canada.com Lack food may be reason for changes in behaviour
Killer whales in waters off southern Vancouver Island and Puget Sound are losing blubber and developing strange behaviour patterns because of a shortage of salmon, whale experts say.
Some endangered sou
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 Animals Jacquelin - 9 days ago - kirotv.com KINGSTON, Wash. -- The three pods of killer whales that live in Washington's inland waters have made a visit to central Puget Sound.
Howard Garrett of Orca Network, a group that tracks whale sightings, tells the Kitsap Sun that says observers spotted a
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 Animals Jacquelin - 13 days ago - pnwlocalnews.com She was believed to be the oldest whale in the Southern Resident Killer Whale community.
The Center for Whale Research, who estimates her birth year as 1910, designated her K7. She was given the name "Lummi" through The Whale Museum's Orca Adoption
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 Animals  Raven - 13 days ago - whale-images.com Whale biologists classify Orcas into three seperate types. Residents, Transients and Offshores. Little is known about them as they live in open sea. Larger groups and believed to eat fish as residents do. It is as though they are different cultures.
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 Animals Jacquelin - 14 days ago - canada.com VANCOUVER ISLAND - She's been missing and presumed dead for several months, so now it's time to say good-bye.
Lummi, the oldest orca among the three pods of endangered southern resident killer whales, did not return to the waters off southern Vancouver
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 Animals Jacquelin - 95 days ago - nzherald.co.nz Jean-Michel Cousteau is, like his late father Jacques-Yves Cousteau, an ocean explorer. He is in New Zealand this month to find and film orcas, or killer whales, using the experience and contacts of whale researcher Dr Ingrid Visser.
Orcas are the larg
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 Animals Jacquelin - 125 days ago - thedaily.com.au The baby sea lion is stuck in a moment he can't get out of.
As he stares into the eyes of a nine-metre orca on the remote shores of an Argentinian beach, he has no idea what is about to happen.
He is only four weeks old, and yet to develop the skill
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 Animals  In a Mirr - 159 days ago - video.aol.com Passengers on a whale-watching excursion in Monterey Bay, Calif., on Mother's Day, 2004, witnessed a huge gray whale and her calf locked in mortal combat with a determined gang of killer whales. Using actual video footage from eyewitnesses and the latest
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 Animals Jacquelin - 165 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au PLAYA PUNTA NORTE, Argentina: A six-tonne orca, or killer whale, torpedoes toward the beach, its dorsal fin cutting the Patagonian sea. It launches itself onto the sand in an explosion of water and foam.
Before the waters die down, the orca is shaking
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 Animals In a Mirr - 175 days ago - animals.nationalgeographic.com Orcas, or killer whales, are the largest of the dolphins and one of the world's most powerful predators. They feast on marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, and even whales, employing teeth that can be four inches (ten centimeters) long. They are known
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 Animals  Terrah - 180 days ago - change.org More Than 20,000 Dolphins Killed Annually!
Every year, over 20,000 dolphins and other marine mammals are brutally massacred in Japan as part of an annual dolphin drive hunt. From October to April, Japanese fishermen will kill more than 20,000 dolphins
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 Animals  Cher - 182 days ago - bornfree.org.uk When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat - the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight
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 Animals  Simone - 191 days ago - blogs.kitsapsun.com When it comes to preventing a major oil spill, state and federal officials are faced with a bit of a paradox.
If there have been no oil spills for awhile, then it looks like the planning must be good enough, no matter who might argue otherwise. If
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