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Orcas!!! Video captured in Monterey Bay courtesy of Wildlife and Adventure Photographer and Videographer, Slater Moore @slatermoorephotography - Love watching the Orcas swim as a pod!! 🌊🌊🌊 Killer whales, or Orcas (Orcinus orca) are cetaceans. They are the largest dolphins in the world, called 'whales' because of their size. Orcas have mostly black skin with white patches.They are found in all the world's oceans, from the cold of the Arctic to the tropical seas. They are easy to identify because of their distinctive white and black colouring. Like all toothed whales, they are carnivores. They hunt in family groups called 'pods'. Members of the pod work together to surround their prey. Killer whales eat many different kinds of prey, such as sharks, seals, dolphins, penguins. There are several different types of Orca, each of which has different living and prey habits. They do not interbreed and seems to be subspecies or even separate species. Their behaviour and hunting techniques also differ. Killer whales are the largest living members of the dolphin family. Males typically range from 6 to 8 metres long and weigh in excess of 6 tonnes. Females are smaller, generally ranging from 5 to 7m and weighing about 3 to 4 t. The largest male killer whale on record was 9.8 metres, weighing over 10 tonnes, while the largest female was 8.5m, weighing 7.5 t. Calves at birth weigh about 180 kilograms (400 lb) and are about 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) long. The killer whale's large size and strength make it among the fastest marine mammals, able to reach speeds in excess of 30 knots (56 km/hr) #Orca #SaveTheSRKW #SouthernResidentKillerWhales #SaveOurCetaceans #WildAndFree #Earthlings #NationsUnderwater #Communities #Families #NoToCaptivity #Conservation #Education #NakaweWarriors (at Monterey Bay, Ca)

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@pnwprotectors @maestro320v Orca Magic from our friend @maestro320v • • • "Chasing Herring" Orcas chasing a huge ball of herring in the Norwegian Sea at sunset courtesy of Sea Legacy @sea_legacy Founder and @natgeo Fellow, @paulnicklen together with his wife Conservation Photojournalist, Cristina Mittermeier @cristinamittermeier • As social animals that live in groups, orcas need to communicate with each other to maintain social bonds, and to coordinate feeding behaviours. Indeed, acoustics constitute an orcas' primary sense and involve three types of vocalisations. Echolocation clicks are high frequency sounds that are used for finding prey and for navigation. The echoes received from the produced sounds enable the whale to form an image of its surroundings. Whistles are variable, pure tone signals typically associated with social activities, and used for communication over short distances. Pulsed calls act as indicators of affiliation, and are used for communication over long distances. Research has shown that the types of sounds different orca populations make can vary greatly. These differences have been termed dialects, and are a method for researchers to distinguish which orcas belong to which population. The communication and sounds used in hunting also vary greatly depending on the main food source of the orca. Orca populations that specialise on hunting marine mammals are typically silent when they hunt, as their prey can hear and detect orca vocalisations. In contrast, fish eating orca populations are highly vocal, as the physiology of their prey’s ear cannot detect the frequencies of their sounds. • ​#SaveOurWhales #SetTheWhalesFree #NoToCaptivity #NOtoSeaWorld #WeAreTheOrca #NoFishNoBlackFish #BreachTheDams #DoNotBuyATicket #CaptivityIsCruel https://www.instagram.com/p/BoUYg_JBpzq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7gy15p5ves5m

"When You Know You're Being Filmed . . . Smile! Eeeek!" 😂 - 🔊🔊🔊 Turn up the volume and watch closely. Today is "World Environment Day" and I'd like to share this amazing video of a couple of False Killer Whales who managed to swim up next to a boat audibly trying to communicate. Realising they were being filmed, one of them manages to flash his pearly whites for that "Close Up Smile". This video was filmed off the Coast of Oahu, Hawai'i with a GoPro @gopro courtesy of the Team at Wild Side Specialty Tours @wildsidehi - 🔵@maestro320 Notes: The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is the third-largest dolphin, a member of the oceanic dolphins. It lives in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. As its name implies, the false killer whale shares characteristics with the more widely known killer whale (Orcinus orca), though the species belong to different genera within Delphinidae; as well as similarities in appearance, both species attack and kill other marine mammals. The false killer whale has not been studied extensively in the wild; much of the data about it have been derived by examining stranded false killer whales. The false killer whale is covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS), and the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). The species is further included in the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manate and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia (Western African Aquatic Mammals MoU) and the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (Pacific Cetaceans MoU). In November 2012, the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recognized the Hawaiian population of false killer whales, which numbers around 150 individuals, as endangered. - #Conservation #Education #Research #OneOceanGlobal🌏 @oneoceanglobal #FalseKillerWhales #Oahu #Hawaii #EmptyTheTanks #NoToCaptivity #WildAndFree