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Animals
Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami in 1995. The park's new owners will no longer stage shows with its aging orca under an agreement with federal regulators.

The Miami Seaquarium is ending shows with Lolita, its 56-year-old orca

Mar 04, 2022
Lolita was captured five decades ago in the Puget Sound. Animal rights activists say she's the oldest orca in captivity and should live her final years back home in a seaside sanctuary.
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Animals
While killer whales are known to attack blue whales, John Totterdell and his colleagues are the first to ever document a successful takedown. And they've done it more than once, publishing their findings in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

Orcas take down a blue whale, proving they're the apex predators of the ocean

Feb 19, 2022
"Within seconds we realized, oh my God, a pack of killer whales is attacking a blue whale," researcher John Totterdell from the Cetacean Research Centre in Australia, told NPR.
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National
An endangered female orca leaps from the water while breaching in the Salish Sea west of Seattle in 2014.

Washington Wheat Farmers Could Be Toast If Dams Are Removed To Help Hungry Orcas

Aug 15, 2019
Washington's orcas are hungry, because there aren't enough salmon for them to eat. State officials want to take out some dams to help them, but that would hurt Washington's wheat farmers.
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Orca J-35, also known as Tahlequah, seen in 2014 off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

After Calf's Death, Orca Mother Carries It For Days In 'Tragic Tour Of Grief'

Jul 31, 2018
What began as a moment of joy ended in tragedy when the infant died last week. Since then its mother has refused to let go, holding her child tightly in what experts call a moving expression of grief.
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The Salt
A photo taken in Astoria, Ore., circa 1910. It was stated that the chinook on the left weighed 116 pounds and the one on the right weighed 121 pounds.

This Is Why You Don't See People-Size Salmon Anymore

Mar 12, 2018
Historical photos show fishermen with chinooks almost as tall as they are. A century's worth of dam-building, overfishing, habitat loss and hatcheries has cut the size of the average fish in half.
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The Two-Way
A female orca named Wikie swims with a calf in 2011 at Marineland in Antibes, France. Wikie was the central animal in a study, published Wednesday, about orcas' ability to imitate human speech.

Whale Hello: Orcas Can Imitate Human Speech, Researchers Find

Jan 31, 2018
A killer whale attempting to say "hello" or "Amy" did not sound as clear as, say, a parrot. But scientists found that the whales could repeat human vocalizations with some success.
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