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Killer whale hunting herring (BBC)

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6/13/19 - CA51C Bumper belly-flopping after a sea lion hunt.

Photos by Tim Huntington with Blue Ocean Whale Watch

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One of my older pieces. I still love it a loot 🐋🩷🩷

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Orkney Islands Council is developing Scotland's first whale stranding protocol to provide a structured response to mass whale beaching incidents. This initiative comes in the wake of two major mass stranding events on the island of Sanday in the past two years, which involved 77 and 23 whales respectively. The protocol, which is still being developed, will define the roles and responsibilities of various organizations, including NatureScot and British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and will guide the decision-making process for managing the carcasses, such as whether to bury them or allow them to decompose naturally. The council has noted that the geography of the Orkney archipelago and the community's input are important factors in formulating the protocol.

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Old foes

Always been a sucker for whales

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whale fall

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Cetacean species spotlight:

Pseudorca crassidens, the false killer whale.

False killer whales are large marine predators, and the 4th largest species of oceanic dolphin. They are mainly found in tropical oceans worldwide, and are known to form pods with other dolphins such as the common bottlenose dolphin.

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Southern Resident Orca vocalizations. The individual dialects of J, K and L pod can be heard here.

During the night, there are no boats… ~81 orcas call into the silent waters of the Salish Sea during the evening of October 20th, 2013. Loud vocals, echolocation, tail lobs and breaches.

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A sperm whale. From Ocean Souls (2020).

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not to be dramatic but sometimes i feel like i don't belong anywhere on this earth like maybe all there is for me is perpetual loneliness + constant desire to go back to a place that doesn’t exist anymore

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male norwegian orca breaching

photo by Krisztina Balotay Photo on facebook

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Orca of the Norwegian Arctic by George Karbus

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Norwegian Orca Survey on facebook:

Let us introduce NKW-048, an adult female recognizable at her quite special eye-patches 😋She was in Skjervøy last week!

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Trua - Aug 25th, 2025

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An orca displays its teeth. Filmed in the Crozet islands, in the subantarctic Indian Ocean. From Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom - A man among orcas (2006).