I noticed the hidden ORCA and started looking for other ORCA phrases.
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And then I was like, oh my god, I gotta get an orca tatted...orca is life.
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Scientists like Eve Jourdain are looking at orca behaviour using suction cameras for an orca-eye-view#BluePlanet2 pic.twitter.
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The company ended its controversial orca breeding program in 2016 and also announced it would end its orca shows at its San Diego theme park.
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The company soon followed suit, announcing last March that it was phasing out its orca shows entirely at all 11 locations, along with its orca breeding.
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Lost Film is the relatively new indie-pop project of Jimmy Hewitt, who used to make music as the delightful but now defunct outfit Orca Orca.
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In 2016, following a decision to phase out theatrical orca shows, SeaWorld announced an end to its orca breeding program, then laid off hundreds of employees.
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SeaWorld has also promised that it will phase out its theatrical orca shows, in favor of displays that will introduce future visitors to more "natural" orca behavior.
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Last year, the commission approved a plan to expand the orca enclosure at SeaWorld's San Diego park, but only on the condition that the company end all orca breeding.
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In 2016, SeaWorld also announced plans to stop the parts of its orca performances that included kissing, dancing or posing, and additional plans to phase out orca shows completely.
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I was part of the first artificial insemination on an orca, in the year 2000; it was on a wild-caught Icelandic orca named Kasatka, and the program grew from there.
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They&aposre also exploring ways to deliver live fish — and oral medication — to the orca in a way that won&apost prompt the orca to become accustomed to people or boats.
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SeaWorld faced growing pressure about its orca policies and then declining park attendance after the release of "Blackfish," which documented the 2010 death of a trainer pulled underwater by a 12,000-pound orca.
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" The company made the announcement on Thursday, vowing to end orca breeding that day and introduce "new, inspiring, natural orca encounters, rather than theatrical shows, as part of its ongoing commitment to education.
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So, Discovery Channel, when are we getting our Orca Week?
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For years, no orca born into this group has survived.
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Most animals die very shortly after the end of their fertile years, but dolphins and orca whales, like humans, tend to live past their reproductive years (cool fact: female orca whales go through menopause).
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"We will end all orca breeding programs — and because SeaWorld hasn't collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld's care," he wrote.
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A grandmother orca boosts babies&apos chances of survivalFranks and his team examined more than 40 years of census data on two orca groups that live off the coast of Washington state and British Columbia.
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Tilikum, the orca whale from the 2013 documentary Blackfish, has died.
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In 2016, SeaWord announced the end of its orca breeding program.
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And the corpses definitely showed signs of being leftover orca lunch.
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They had to battle high winds and large pods of orca.
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Additionally, they have announced an end to their orca-breeding program.
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The orca was captured in 1983 around the age of 2.
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And then — a fin of an orca arcing over a wave.
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Orca species are considered endangered in both Canada and the United States.
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She also appeared in the 1977 movie Orca, about a killer whale.
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So each and every orca baby is literally years in the making.
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How cool would it be if this puzzle won an Orca Award?
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Project Orca is designed to accommodate 12 guests and 14 crew members.
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Orca mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers pass on so much essential knowledge that calves removed from their influence are as ill-equipped for wild orca life as children raised by wolves would be if dropped into Midtown Manhattan.
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At 213 feet, the vessel will dwarf the actual mammal ten times over – but it will be designed to have the general appearance of an orca and be engineered to thrive in harsh climates, similar to an orca.
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" The last theatrical orca show at SeaWorld San Diego comes after the death on Friday at Sea World Orlando of Tillikum, an orca involved in the deaths of three people which was featured in the 2013 documentary film "Blackfish.
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Since the release of the film, SeaWorld has announced that it is planning to phase out orca shows to focus on more natural behaviors and that the parks are putting an end to their orca breeding programs as well.
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A heartbroken orca whale's sadness has become an emblem of her struggling population.
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No orca or dolphin born under human care has survived release, he said.
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Along with SeaWorld's Tilikum, the world lost another notable orca whale this week.
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We should not be surprised when a young orca dies in a tank.
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Unfortunately, in September the young orca began take a turn for the worse.
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The park announced the death of the 36-year-old orca on Friday.
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The orca floated to the glass side and kissed "girl" with her nose.
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A group of five fishermen had a close encounter with an orca recently.
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The younger orca did eventually escape, but it was too late for Namu.
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It was Griffin who caught Shamu, the first healthy orca ever captured intentionally.
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Orca Pacific has used third-party tools to do sophisticated targeting like dayparting.
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Don't want to be reminded of an orca whale or your first iPod?
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The film "Blackfish" didn't just attack SeaWorld for keeping orca whales in captivity.
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It described Kayla a couple years ago as a "graceful, intelligent, athletic" orca.
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Project Orca is not the only recent design to prioritize luxury Arctic travel.
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"The research here is very clear: Those orca whales are starving," Rosenfield said.
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But orca whales, salmon, and other critically threatened fish could pay the price.
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Tilikum, the captive orca who killed a trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.
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Scientists believe she's the first orca in the world to mimic human speech.
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Marine wildlife experts extract a breath sample from J50, or Scarlet, an ailing orca.
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An orca named Kayla died unexpectedly at age 30 in January of unknown causes.
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Orca that carried dead, decomposing calf for weeks now returns to fun with friends.
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But Thursday's announcement is the most dramatic step towards a captive-orca-free future.
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"Today, a baby Orca died at the Sea World in San Antonio," he continued.
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A captive orca is dropped on its head during a transfer and soon dies.
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Sequoyah, the Cherokee scholar, appeared, and a leaping orca, and an air-traffic controller.
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It's a place to feed and find refuge, especially from predators like orca whales.
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Screenshot of Orca dashboard Screenshot of Orca dashboard The startup is going after established security vendors like Rapid7 and Tenable by attempting to build a more modern approach to cloud security, one that's built from the ground up for cloud native constructs.
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SeaWorld reported in March that the orca -- estimated then to be 35 -- may be dying.
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A grieving orca was seen pushing her calf after it died shortly after being born.
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A dead orca was seen being pushed to the surface of waters by its mother.
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In California, lawmakers also increased pressure by banning orca breeding and captivity programs in 2016.
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On Friday morning, Tilikum the orca whale died at the SeaWorld park in Orlando, Florida.
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Rather, it wants chimpanzee rights for chimpanzees, orca rights for orcas, elephant rights for elephants.
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Following that documentary, in 2016, SeaWord announced the end of its captive orca breeding program.
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Yes, ending captive orca breeding is a wonderful first step and it should be celebrated.
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Tilikum -- the orca that killed someone at SeaWorld in Orlando 7 years ago -- has died.
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In 2016, SeaWorld said it would phase out orca performances and stop breeding the animals.
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Rosetti Superyachts, an Italian shipyard, just unveiled a 213-foot yacht concept dubbed Project Orca.
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Last year, an orca mother carried a dead calf for 35 days on her back.
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As a result, whales are scheduled, strictly regimented, loudly announced -- like Sea World orca showcases.
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The drones were developed by the Offshore Robotics for the Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub.
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Playlist: "What I See" (Rise Above), "Thirsty and Miserable" (Rise Above), "Spray Paint (the Walls)" (Rise Above), "Cannibal Resource" (Bitte Orca), "Useful Chamber" (Bitte Orca), "Fluorescent Half Dome" ( Bitte Orca), "Offspring are Blank" (Swing Lo Magellan), "Unto Caesar" (Swing Lo Magellan), "I Found it in U," (Lamp Lit Prose) Spotify | Apple Music This is the chief complaint about Dirty Projectors, and sure, all of Longstreth's music, to a certain degree, is pretentious.
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SeaWorld decided in 2016 to end its orca breeding programs and phase out killer whale shows.
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All orcas are currently considered part of Orcinus orca, the largest species of the dolphin family.
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Last Friday, state legislators passed a bill banning orca performances and captive breeding programs in California.
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If it's young, it could have been separated from its mother, perhaps during an orca attack.
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"Today, I lost a member of my family," orca behaviorist Kristi Burtis said in a statement.
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At the end of the statement about Tilikum, SeaWorld provides a video about its "orca care."
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Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy, was transferred to a sea pen in 1998.
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The youngest orca among the three parks is now 2-year-old Amaya in San Diego.
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Disturbingly, much of the damage observed was self-inflicted—but a likely consequence of orca confinement.
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The film focused on an orca named Tilikum, which killed SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
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Kyara, the last orca born in captivity at SeaWorld, has died at just 3 months old.
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Among the many diverse animals he has photographed are polar bears, orca, humpback whales, and penguins.
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The latest from Syria's front lines, a primer on the Super Bowl and a talking orca.
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Keep reading for a look at renderings of Project Orca and other Arctic-related luxury vessels.
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The whale was at the center of an orca breeding program that SeaWorld ended last year.
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The California Coastal Commission also took steps to ban orca breeding at SeaWorld's San Diego facility.
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The Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada: Threatens endangered orca population Up north, Canada's Trans Mountain Expansion project, which would add more than 563 miles of additional pipeline to already-existing infrastructure, stands to extinguish an endangered orca population along the Pacific coast.
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A grieving orca has finally let go of her dead calf after carrying it for 17 days.
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The mother orca caught the world's attention last month after carrying her baby's body on her nose.
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Manby credited SeaWorld's orca show with changing public opinion about the animals over the last half century.
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I get a low fare warning, so I reload my ORCA card when I get to work.
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The 34-year-old male orca has been in captivity at SeaWorld for the past 23 years.
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Biologists are worried about the survival of the 4-year-old female orca known as J-50.
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The "Little Bubble" single artwork is reminiscent of the Bitte Orca artwork, except the bubbles are empty.
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DeGeneres said she saw Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Bieber, and maybe even a famous Orca whale, Free Willy.
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Burgess said he had eliminated those products, and the orca-friendly label was unrelated to that move.
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A large male orca dove under his boat and rolled onto his back, looking up at him.
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In fact, no orca or dolphin born under human care has ever survived release into the wild.
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In a sad coda to their orca program, Tilikum is now ill with an incurable lung disease.
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The orca, also known as the killer whale, is an aquatic animal of the dolphin family Delphinidae.
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Parrots are not as big as Orca whales and cannot rebel physically against their captors so powerfully.
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This is Takara's fifth baby born at the park and the last orca birth for all of SeaWorld.
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The company also plans to debut its larger education program called Orca Encounter in San Diego this summer.
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The orca population is a large extended family made up of three social groups, which are called pods.
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Wikie the killer whale is making waves for being the first orca caught on camera mimicking human speech.
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The argument is not a new one, but it has resurfaced in connection with the dwindling orca population.
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Kayla is the fourth SeaWorld orca to die at one of its parks in the past two years.
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Officially know as J2, but affectionately known as Granny, this killer whale was likely the oldest living orca.
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A second deterrent would feature an orca vocalization chamber to alert great whites that their predator is nearby.
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Did the success of 2013 documentary Blackfish have something to do with SeaWorld's decision to stop orca breeding?
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These orca whales have been negatively effected by a drop in the salmon population, boat noise and pollution.
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In 2010 the wild, young female orca was found swimming in the waters around the Netherlands, extremely emaciated.
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However, the department notes a vessel should not be closer than 50 metres (54 yards) to an orca.
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Dolmen da Orca, a typical structure in Western Iberia, part of the megalithic cluster of Carregal do Sal.
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SeaWorld announced it was ending its orca breeding program and would be phasing them out of live shows.
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Blue Orca also alleged Samsonite played "accounting games" related to its 2016 purchase of luxury baggage maker Tumi.
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The Oscar nominee was also arrested in 2017 at a protest of SeaWorld's orca show in San Diego.
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We grieved with orca mother Tahlequah as she carried her dead calf for 22019 days and 1,000 miles.
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"Blackfish," a documentary that condemned keeping orca whales in captivity, has haunted SeaWorld since it premiered in 2013.
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Tilikum, the SeaWorld orca that became a household name after the "Blackfish" documentary is fighting for his life.
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SeaWorld caved under the public pressure generated by "Blackfish" (22005), phasing out its orca breeding program in March 22011.
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Great white sharks don&apost usually have predators, except for occasional attacks by killer whales ( Orcinus orca ), Burgess said.
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Scientists in British Columbia, Canada detected orca noises in their underwater microphones on the morning of December 2, 2016.
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Orca Encounter is being billed as an educational experience that will show how killer whales eat, communicate and navigate.
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"Huge respect to @blackfishmovie for putting orca captivity at @SeaWorld on the agenda" Greenpeace UK Oceans said on Twitter.
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In 85033, the Republicans launched ORCA into the ocean of data management, only to see it sink into oblivion.
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The orca began showing signs of discomfort Saturday afternoon, prompting her veterinarians to begin treatment after a physical examination.
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SeaWorld was already fighting a California ruling from October that had banned orca breeding at its San Diego park.
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Tilikum, a male orca nicknamed Tilly, grew widely known in 2013 after being featured in the CNN documentary Blackfish.
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This study has its limits, given that it includes just one orca in captivity and not in the wild.
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This comes several months after the news that SeaWorld will end orca breeding programs at all of its parks.
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"The tawdry orca sideshows and despicable spying tactics are sinking SeaWorld's ship," said Tracy Reiman, PETA's executive vice president.
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Move over, dolphin-safe tuna and bee-friendly pesticides, and make room for orca-friendly products on the shelf.
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There are some rotomolded YETI competitors like Orca, OtterBox, and RTIC, that are slightly cheaper, but still comparably priced.
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Vera Farmiga plays Emma Russell, who has invented an acoustic device, the Orca, that can tune in to Titans.
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You will see orca pods off the beaches and coyotes in the forests near the University of British Columbia.
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"Owners of an Orca will proudly hold their place in history as having led the transition towards better watersports."
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Humans and orca whales have something in common: in both species, females survive long after they stop bearing children.
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Gabriela Cowperthwaite's exposé of the abuse of orca whales at SeaWorld changed public perception, corporate behavior and the law.
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However, environmentalists have called the twin pipeline proposal a death warrant for southern resident orca in the Salish Sea—one of only two orca populations to have received federal protections under the United States' Marine Mammal Protection Act, an environmental law that prohibits the killing, harassment, or taking of animals considered at-risk.
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Researchers were able to confirm the baby whale's gender when the orca popped to the surface with its underside exposed.
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If we're trying to celebrate a food chain-topping marine animal, it might be time for an Orca Week instead.
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"Blackfish" chronicled the life of Tilikum, an orca that killed a SeaWorld trainer during a performance in Orlando in 2010.
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At an estimated age of 224 years old, the orca known to researchers as "Granny" is presumed to be dead.
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Only the female orca Corky, also in San Diego, is believed to be older at an estimated 53 years old.
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If you max out that 50-kilo scale, you can call it a 'Willy'—as in Free Willy, the orca.
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SeaWorld was already fighting a California ruling from October 2015 that had banned orca breeding at its San Diego park.
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This three-month-old baby becomes the fortieth Orca to die at Sea World, none of them of old age.
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The bull orca "has become increasingly lethargic" the past few weeks, according to the marine mammal park in Orlando, Florida.
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Around the same time, NOAA also started closely monitoring another pod member, 3-year-old juvenile orca Scarlet, or J50.
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We have evidence for 4 different baleen whale species, and at least 2 toothed whale [dolphin or orca-like] species.
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It's part of an overall brand shift away from theatrical orca shows and toward an educational theme park approach instead.
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The Shortlist ORCA How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator By Jason M. Colby 394 pp.
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Of course, the evidence Blackfish puts forward — including both environmental and genetic explanations for orca aggression — should be treated skeptically.
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SCIENCE TIMES An article on Tuesday about declining orca populations misstated Brad Hanson's position at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
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An animal care specialist and veterinarians tried to help the orca recover, but she died at about 12:15 a.m.
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The 100-foot yacht was also specifically designed for extended stays in frigid temperatures – even without the dramatic orca design.
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We take the light rail to the International District (pre-paid Orca card) and stop for pastries before heading over.
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The orca, a male estimated to be about 36 years old, had been kept by the organization for 25 years.
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Last year Congressman Adam Schiff and Jared Huffman, both California Democrats, introduced legislation that would phase out SeaWorld's orca program.
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On Wednesday, Takara, the 25-year-old matriarch of the SeaWorld San Antonio's orca pod, gave birth to a healthy baby.
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"As long as you stop the breeding program then we've won and we have ended orca captivity and that's the goal."
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Pitman's curiosity was piqued by those pictures, so he started fishing through thousands of orca images taken in the Southern Ocean.
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A few minutes later, they spotted three more female relatives of the young orca mother, including the grandmother of the infant.
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To complicate matters, there are other competing theories; recent research suggests the megalodon faced competition from white sharks and orca whales.
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Because of her income level, she qualifies for a discounted ORCA LIFT transit card, dropping that price to $1.50 per trip.
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The baby orca was the first calf born in three years to the endangered orcas, the Center for Whale Research said.
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A pod of orca whales shocked a group of ecstatic paddleboarders near Deception Pass Bridge in Oak Harbor, Washington, on Wednesday.
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Orca whales also do not have babies often or in large numbers, and when they do, it is a long process.
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Blue Orca said it valued Samsonite at HK$17.59 a share, 43 percent below its last traded price of HK$30.70.
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We're currently testing new coolers from Pelican, Yeti, Igloo, Coleman, Orca, Cabelas, Rtic, and Engel for consideration in our next update.
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While we can never hope to fully grasp another species' experiences, orca behavior and neuroanatomy point to a complex inner life.
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This summer, an orca called J35 put a sad face on this problems as she carried her dead calf for weeks.
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The 30-year-old female orca died Monday morning, with animal care specialists by her side, SeaWorld said in a statement.
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Even with carbon fiber, the Orca weighs in at 580 pounds — with nearly half (275 pounds) coming from the battery alone.
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Kayla, a 30-year-old female orca, died at SeaWorld Orlando on Monday morning after developing a sudden illness over the weekend.
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SeaWorld estimates that ending orca breeding will save $15 million over 3-5 years in spending on marketing to improve its reputation.
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Earlier this summer, a pair of humpback whales came to the rescue of a seal who was being pursued by orca whales.
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J35, a 20-year-old whale, gave birth to the first baby orca in three years, but the calf died shortly after.
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Kyara, who was conceived before SeaWorld announced it was winding down the orca program, was the last to be born in captivity.
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Prior to the Blue Orca report, the average recommendation from 14 analysts on the shares was a "buy", Thomson Reuters data showed.
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Angel Deradoorian would arrive to tour the record, before joining Coffman on the Bitte Orca sessions, with the addition of Haley Dekle.
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The decision to end orca breeding also resolves a legal dispute between SeaWorld and the California Coastal Commission, a state regulatory body.
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SeaWorld San Diego is phasing out orca shows, Ringling Brothers has closed for good, and more people are vegan than ever before.
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I type, click-by-click, in a 3D space as a virtual orca whale floats by in front of a Facebook feed.
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SeaWorld, its reputation savaged by a documentary about the suffering of orcas at its marine parks, is ending its orca-breeding program.
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Nancy Black said the pod, led by an orca she's named "Emma," had killed five gray whale calves in ten days.—VICE
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Prior to the Blue Orca report, the average recommendation from 14 analysts on the shares was a "buy," Thomson Reuters data showed.
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I reeled in a 109-pound halibut, caught giant king salmon, and played tug-of-war on a fish with an orca.
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SeaWorld will no longer breed killer whales, building on its recent decision to phase out orca shows at its San Diego aquarium.
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One night there was another group singing—I say "singing" but they were mostly making weird noises, more or less orca sounds.
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Unlike in most previous such releases, the 10 orca and 87 beluga whales have been in captivity for a relatively short time.
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Her dead calf resting on her nose, an orca has swum in mourning for more than three days in the Pacific Northwest.
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Upon completion, Project Orca will be 213-feet long and have a color palette and general shape representative of a killer whale.
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Fisheries along the coast could collapse, too — so could orca whale populations that feed on salmon, which need healthy rivers to survive.
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As the crane hoists the container over the ship, the container comes crashing down onto the Orca, pulling the crane with it.
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SeaWorld announced Thursday that it is ending its orca breeding program, making the 29 orcas currently in captivity the park's last generation.
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Last July, she posed nude underneath layers of black and white paint for a PETA ad protesting orca whales being kept in captivity.
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By the looks of it, this creature was likely a formidable predator—a kind of extra-large version of the contemporary orca whale.
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Tl'uk is a Bigg's killer whale, a transient type of orca that hunts seals and sea lions up and down the West coast.
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Other whales in the San Antonio orca pod were behaving normally on Monday and showed no signs of the illness, park officials said.
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Canada's government announced in May it would cut the allowable catch of Chinook by up to 35 percent to help protect the orca.
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Since then, I have been fighting to achieve what SeaWorld has just announced: the end of captive breeding and the orca captivity program.
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The Seaquarium kept Lolita after SeaWorld Entertainment Inc decided in 2016 to end its orca breeding programs and phase out killer whale shows.
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My Orca card that I get through work is good for essentially all public transit in Seattle, the only exception being the ferries.
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SEATTLE – Federal officials are weighing all options to save an emaciated endangered orca including feeding it live salmon at sea dosed with medicine.
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First identified in the 19th century, the cetacean species resembles a cross between an orca and a bottlenose dolphin, according to the Oregonian .
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"SeaWorld has been listening and we're changing," the company said in a statement Thursday, announcing that it would end its orca breeding program.
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UBS's ORCA-Direct learns in real time, utilizing historical trading data to find the bank's clients the best available liquidity when volatility rises.
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But we shouldn't ignore the fact that just last year, California, the site of a main SeaWorld park, already banned captive orca breeding.
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There's this one YouTube thing when I was in my "whale hole" on YouTube—and this orca whale ate a great white shark!
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Like the human brain, the orca brain contains von Economo neurons: rare, specialized cells that relate to empathy, communication, intuition and social intelligence.
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An investigation last year by The San Antonio Express-News found that infections played a frequent role in orca deaths at SeaWorld's facilities.
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It's a calm day in Cornwall and we're drifting in Wood's boat, Orca, just off the Lizard, the southernmost tip of mainland Britain.
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The last time they had seen him, he was looking thin and not healthy, according to Shari Tarantino, president of the Orca Conservancy.
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Launched in 2017, the ORCA Hub is a consortium of five universities working with partners from industry sectors such as energy and technology.
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She visits Lolita, an orca who has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for nearly half a century, since she was six years old.
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With no more captive breeding, SeaWorld will only be able to obtain a new whale when a rescue orca cannot be rehabilitated and released.
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Little do they know, orca whales can lay them out with a headbutt to the vulnerable belly full of nutritious organ meat, said Burgess.
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Since working there, I've set up a website about animal welfare called the "Happy Orca," because I believe that zoos are fundamentally really wrong.
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Stewart said he wasn't scared at the start, but noticed the orca had its mouth open when he made his way into the water.
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The other orcas at SeaWorld Orlando could be affected socially by Kayla's death, the park said, and orca behaviorists will be monitoring them closely.
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Alexis Martinez was killed Christmas Eve in 2009 at a marine park in Spain by an orca that was born and trained at SeaWorld.
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"What is unique about ORCA is the machine learning we put into it," said Chris Purves, head of the bank's FRC Strategic Development Lab.
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Some coolers, such as YETI and Orca, are molded out of one piece of plastic with no seams in a process called roto-molding.
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The marine park announced yesterday it's ending its orca breeding program -- meaning the whales in SeaWorld's care will be the last generation enclosed there.
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Staggering numbers of wildlife perished almost immediately: as many as 2202,2628 seabirds, more than 28500,6900 otters, almost 2628 bald eagles, and 28503 orca whales.
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For a generation that grew up on Shamu or Free Willy, anecdotes that Colby shares of orca hunters in "the Old Northwest" are shocking.
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Riders can qualify for what is known as an Orca Lift card if their household incomes are less than double the federal poverty level.
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Another short-seller, Blue Orca Capital, had cast doubt on ANTA's revenue in a presentation in May that ANTA dismissed as "inaccurate and misleading".
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"These brands know that they're going to run out of stock, so why pay to run out of stock faster?" said Orca Pacific's Ghiorso.
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Their book, "Stepping Stones," a dual-language picture book from Orca Book Publishers, in English and Arabic, has been a best seller in Canada.
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None of this comes cheap, though, as Taiga Motors is targeting a whopping $24,000 for the Orca when it goes into production in 2020.
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Government officials said in a statement on Sunday that emergency responders had placed hydrocarbon materials and containment barriers around the Orca to prevent leaks.
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The study also revealed that orca calves that had lost their grandmothers were more likely to die than those who were accompanied by them.
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Since then, SeaWorld has stopped breeding whales and announced plans to phase out its famous orca shows in favor of attractions without live animals.
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Activists worry that once China's biggest players start orca performances, it will spawn a copycat effect at smaller, less experienced parks around the country.
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Great whites spend a lot of time chasing their next meal, and usually win their encounters with other animals, so why not attack an orca?
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Could it be a tribute to Tilikum, the orca at the center of the anti-SeaWorld documentary Blackfish, who just died in captivity this week?
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SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show after years of outcry and falling attendance prompted it to renounce theatrical orca displays.
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Jay Inslee earlier this year after forming the Southern Resident Orca Task Force , an initiative meant to keep endangered killer whales alive in the region.
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SeaWorld announced earlier this year the plans to end its orca shows and captive breeding programs, and the California government just made it a certainty.
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On the Columbia River, Washington (CNN)One image was clear -- a dead orca calf being carried across the ocean by its apparently grief-stricken mother.
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A month earlier, Kyara, a 3-month-old baby orca — the last killer whale born in captivity at a SeaWorld park — died of an infection.
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ANTA shares rose over 3% on Friday morning after closing down 5.5% a day earlier, after Blue Orca Capital gave a presentation on the company.
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The bank expanded ORCA to U.S. Treasury trading in late 2018, with further roll-outs expected in the Foreign Exchanges, Rates and Credit (FRC) space.
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The letter includes research, prepared by biologists and veterinarians, on the deteriorating health of at least one orca that is held in a small enclosure.
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Evidence shows the orca brain is large, complex and highly developed in areas dealing with emotions, said Lori Marino, president of the Whale Sanctuary Project.
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Now living in LA, Longstreth is a far cry from the musician who surprisingly sprung the enthralling Bitte Orca onto an already saturated Brooklyn scene.
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Pursuits Travelers to the Pacific Northwest are sometimes lured by postcard promises of orca whales or the Space Needle against a backdrop of lofty peaks.
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The death comes several years after SeaWorld announced it was ending its orca breeding program amid criticism about how it treated the orcas in captivity.
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The 2013 CNN documentary film "Blackfish" highlighted the issue, telling the story of a SeaWorld trainer killed by the 12,000-pound orca Tilikum in 2010.
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The crane tumbles over the Orca and into the water, and the ship flips onto its side as people on board dive into the water.
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Last year, a grieving mother orca in the Pacific Northwest carried her dead calf on her head for more than 17 days and 1,000 miles.
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"News about the 'whale jail' near Nakhodka, the icy conditions, and the suffering of the orca and beluga whales is causing international concern," the actress wrote.
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While Shark Week programming is notorious for feeding into our fears about sharks, it turns out these fish are rarely a match for the orca whales.
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A team of biologists from NOAA Fisheries, Vancouver Aquarium, and other institutions have been tracking the three-year-old orca, named J50, or Scarlet, for weeks.
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Tim Stewart is said daring kayaker, who told the NZ Herald he went down to the ocean after he heard of orca sightings in the area.
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In 1977, there was Orca , which features Charlotte Rampling and Richard Harris fighting an enraged killer whale that, at one point, bites off Bo Derek's leg.
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The matriarch of SeaWorld's orca family died at 42 years old on Tuesday night after a years-long battle with a lung disease, the park announced.
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Fans identified the exact boots that were used in the costume because of the company logo on the heel: off-the-shelf Orca Bay Brecon Chelseas.
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On four of these outings, the researchers watched in horror and amazement as groups of up to 20 orca whales attacked and killed lone beaked whales.
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Dawn Noren, a research biologist at NOAA, said that it's possible the orca — named J35 — has podmates who've been foraging for her and giving her food.
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However, like the crew of the boat Orca, "Jaws" overcame the odds and became one of the most groundbreaking movies the film industry has ever seen.
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That certainly would be impressive and an exciting advancement of human-orca relations, but to my ears, the "words" sound a whole lot like fart noises.
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Some analysts also say that while the report could hurt its share price for some time, Blue Orca was underestimating positive earnings upside for the company.
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This intricate yet ruthlessly efficient style, is most readily available on arguably the band's two best records, 2007's Rise Above and 2009's Bitte Orca.
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But those feelings quickly turned into confusion and a quiet optimism when the band released "Stillness is the Move" as the first single off Bitte Orca.
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We're covering SeaWorld's decision to end its orca breeding program, and we're taking a look at a wearable sort of airbag that could better protect motorcyclists.
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Dunn hopes through the work of Munchkin, The Whale Sanctuary Project, PETA and animal lovers, Tilikum will be the last orca to die in a tank.
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"The strike has been put off because of the assessed damage," Albin Hotic of the ORCA union, representing pilots, flight attendants and aeromechanics, told N1 television.
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"It's hard not to remember the orca mother who carried her dead calf around for more than two weeks," writes Remy Tumin, on the Briefings team.
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"It's hard not to remember the orca mother who carried her dead calf around for more than two weeks," writes Remy Tumin of the briefings team.
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There was a passageway out of the net, and Namu, the bigger orca, tried to nudge the younger one (likely his sibling) out through the hole.
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Greenpeace said the Southern Resident orca is an "important part of the culture and history of the Pacific Northwest," and called for greater protection for them.
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"It's hard not to remember the orca mother who carried her dead calf around for more than two weeks," Remy Tumin on the Briefings team writes.
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Killer whales are some of the ocean's fiercest predators, yet they famously don't attack humans (there's only been one known human attack by a wild orca).
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What's harder is turning our shared sense of grief for this mother into an impetus to solve the problems plaguing the dwindling southern resident orca population.
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Though the show in San Diego is ending, die-hard orca performance enthusiasts will still be able to enjoy watching whales perform in tanks for people.
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Jay Inslee of Washington convened the Southern Resident Orca Task Force, a group of state, tribal, provincial and federal officials, to help protect the region's orcas.
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According to CNN, the whale watchers and tourists aboard an Island Adventures Whale Watching boat near Anacortes, Washington, spotted a rare, white orca calf on Saturday.
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Dramatic video of the crane collapse shows workers trying to load a shipping container onto what appears to be a relatively small vessel called the Orca.
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February 2, 2018 A whale of a tale is featured in today's show: An orca has apparently learned how to mimic the vocalizations of its trainer.
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As a white liquid-filled bubble came out of the hole, Lee said it reminded her of Shamu, the orca who used to perform at SeaWorld.
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Market transparency has seen a boost from heightened regulations as authorities in states like Oregon rolled out legal recreational markets, said Casey Houlihan, head of ORCA.
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Haichang's Shanghai Ocean World, which is due to open in November, and Chimelong's Ocean Kingdom are preparing live orca shows for the first time in China.
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ROX Orca competed in the highest league of competitive Overwatch at the time, APEX, where Se-yeon cemented herself as one of the best Zarya players ever.
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The missing livers point to possible orca attacks—as we've reported before, shark livers are full of the nutrient squalene, which the orcas seem to be after.
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Eventually, he (the kayaker, not the orca) returns to his boat and paddles around with the mammal for a while longer before they go their separate ways.
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Kayla's death comes two years after the death of Tilikum, the SeaWorld orca that killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 and inspired the controversial 2013 documentary Blackfish.
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YouTuber Kirk Fraser posted a series of clips recently that showed one seal's unusual orca-survival technique — namely, scramble onto the nearest boat and look really cute.
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An orca whale family has added a new female calf to their pod — a very welcome addition because the population of the mammal animals is so low.
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Orca recently announced a $6.5 million seed round led by YL Ventures; what wasn't reported at the time was just how much YL Ventures invested: $6.1 million.
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Under the sea Fishermen off Cape Cod who witnessed the rare occurrence of an orca whale swimming with a pod of dolphins, could hardly believe their eyes.
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I usually set aside about $150 for my Orca card, which I can use on the bus, light rail, ferry, and for car or ride sharing services.
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In response, the park announced that it would be ending its orca breeding program (no word yet on breeding programs regarding other creatures kept in captivity).[Motherboard]
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Splitting the Catch, Audun Rikardsen, NorwayA large male orca whale is seen feeding on herring that have been squeezed out of a fishing boat's closing fishing net.
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The orca, known as J35, was spotted chasing a school of salmon off the coast of Washington Saturday afternoon and its calf was nowhere to be seen.
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Image Courtesy University of OtagoAn investigation into the oral health of captive orca whales is raising serious concerns about the health and welfare of these majestic creatures.
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An international team of researchers has completed the first detailed investigation of the dental health of captive orca whales, finding damage in all of the whales studied.
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In terms of what should be done, Ventre says aquatic parks should consider phasing out orca captivity through attrition, and refrain from capturing orcas for human entertainment.
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Orcas can live for decades, and as this new study shows, the compromised condition of orca teeth make them poor candidates for release back into the wild.
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During his time at SeaWorld Orlando, sperm removed from Tilikum by trainers is used to sire 22016 orca calfs, 26 of which preceded their father in death.
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Filmed off the coast of Sheltand, UK, the clip above shows an orca lunging toward a seal that's calmly bobbing around in the shallows by some rocks.
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A spokeswoman for the theme park company said she did not know the prognosis for the orca, which was captured in 1983 around the age of 2.
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" — Drew Stevens, CEO of Orca Communications "When I set to start my business, I became the accountant, administrative assistant, project manager, writer, business developer and co-boss.
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Scientist Edie Widder, founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA), developed the camera that first filmed a giant squid near Japan's Ogasawara archipelago in 2013.
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Animal activists are rejoicing after SeaWorld officials announced the company would end its longstanding practice of both breeding orca whales and making them perform in theatrical shows.
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While a fish hatchery would allow for increased production of salmon, orca advocates believe fish hatcheries are just a temporary bandage that don't address the bigger issue.
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Before the Overwatch League took over the top tier of Overwatch esports, Korean player Se-yeon played with one of the top teams in the world, ROX Orca.
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We've seen a lot of orca footage during our time in the ol' animal-beat trenches, and let's just say that it does not always go this well.
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What he ended up capturing wasn't a pod gleefully dismembering a seal, but rather a lone orca who was apparently just hanging out, palling around with a kayaker.
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It's actually taking place in the Army Bay, New Zealand, where a kayaker casually jumped out of his vessel to hang out with a curious orca on Monday.
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The company said it wouldn't embrace captive breeding or orca shows at any other SeaWorld location — in the United States, China or anywhere else, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
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Interestingly, similar calls made by bottlenose dolphins and orca whales "carry information on group identity" and are used for "maintaining social cohesion," the authors wrote in the study.
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Using high-resolution photos, the researchers assessed wear and tear on the individual teeth of captive orca, looking for fractures, boreholes, and other signs of poor dental health.
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SeaWorld has also said it will scrap plans for a $100 million project called "Blue World" to enlarge its 7-million-gallon orca habitat at SeaWorld San Diego.
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With the Southern Resident orca population critically endangered, every member is important for the continuation of the group, especially younger whales who could possibly mate in the future.
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ORCA has for long called on the government to appoint new management at Croatia Airlines, help seal a collective bargaining agreement, raise pay and reduce over-time hours.
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And this is to say nothing of the underwater-themed playrooms at Crystal Green, the Easton and 1 Seaport, complete with submarine jungle gyms or orca-shaped swings.
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On average Balcomb says, a female orca can produce about five viable babies in her reproductive lifetime, which is about 25 years starting when the whale is 15.
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There is footage here of all sorts of animals eating or trying to eat other animals — orca-penguin, cheetah-gazelle, tiger shark-turtle, leopard-monkey, secretary bird-cobra.
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An apparently grieving female orca whale who swam with the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks has stopped carrying the carcass, environmental officials said.
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Black said that since April 20 they have taken down five grey whale calves in ten days and that an orca she calls Emma is leading the attacks.
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Such is the case with Tahlequah, also known as J35, a 20-year-old female orca from the critically endangered southern resident population based near Puget Sound, Wash.
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Blackfish, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, focuses mainly on the captivity of the orca Tilikum, who was involved in the deaths of three people.
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I had no idea that Rockstar were going to introduce animals into the water, so I was so impressed when I saw dolphins and orca and humpback whales.
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Then last March, SeaWorld announced it was immediately halting killer whale breeding at all of its parks and would completely phase out the theatrical orca shows by 2019.
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"The big question is: Everyone knows retail is going to be soft, but does Amazon pick up enough share to offset the overall softening?" said Orca Pacific's Ghiorso.
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In a report published on May 24, an activist investment firm called Blue Orca Capital accused Samsonite of using questionable accounting practices to inflate its earnings and profits.
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Although the band had a committed following by the time it released "Bitte Orca" in 2009 and "Swing Lo Magellan" in 2012, it stayed well outside any mainstream.
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Now, researchers have discovered that the grandmother effect also holds true for orcas: The presence of a grandmother orca increases the survival rate of that whale&aposs grandchildren.
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But that home-run return came with a major headache: dealing with the repercussions of "Blackfish," a searing documentary that castigated SeaWorld's treatment of orca whales in captivity.
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Her main project is tweaking a machine called Orca, which emits radio frequencies that reduce the monsters from raging whirlwinds of destruction to much more docile (if enormous) beasts.
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Sam Kynman-Cole, of topVIEW Photography, had heard of orca sightings in Army Bay, Auckland, so he dutifully sent up the ol' drone to see what he could spot.
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"You will still see a whale leaping out of the water," Al Garver, a former orca trainer and vice president of zoological operations, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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And what about the only other object in the gallery, a large plush-toy orca, Tilikum Body Pillow, named after the animal performer at SeaWorld who killed three people?
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"We are saddened to report that three adult killer whales (orca) are missing and presumed dead as of July 1, 2019," the center explained in a release on Tuesday.
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At this point, most people have seen the documentary Blackfish, which documents the treatment of the orca Tilikum at SeaWorld and the controversy surrounding the death of a trainer.
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Samsonite also issued a 9-page response to other allegations made by new launched short seller Blue Orca, repeating its stance that the report was one-sided and misleading.
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Brown hyenas and orca whales may also break this rule, and the researchers expect that we'll discover more species that do the same the more genetic data we collect.
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"Blackfish" begins by showing the practice of capturing orca babies in the 1970s and casts SeaWorld in a harsh light for the conditions in which the whales are raised.
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The 34-year-old male orca is suffering from a bacterial infection in its lungs that so far has not responded to treatment, SeaWorld said on its website, seaworldcares.com.
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A turning point for the industry came in 2013 with the documentary Blackfish, which told the story of Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld in Florida.
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The first orca Griffin procured, Namu, was caught accidentally by some fishermen, when a snagged fishing net trapped a pair of orcas between a reef and a rocky outcropping.
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"Free Willy," a 20153 family film involving a boy and his affection for a young orca in the Pacific Northwest, drew significant attention to the plight of the whales.
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As the sensation crested, a huge orca lifted up out of the water, baring its smooth gray back, and for a moment I felt its weight settle on me.
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This beluga whale — the most southerly ever recorded in British waters, according to Sally Hamilton, director of the charity Orca — seemed to be in good health and still feeding.
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"We've seen a significant increase in volatility — none of the normal rules apply," said John Ghiorso, founder and CEO of Orca Pacific, a Seattle-based agency focused on Amazon.
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But when Blue Orca contacted the institution from which Mr. Tainwala, according to some biographical sources, received a doctorate, the institution said that he had not obtained a degree.
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I end up doing about four miles, finishing in the international district again, and take the light rail home using my Orca card, which still has money on it.
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A team of international researchers have taught a female orca whale to imitate human speech, documenting what is considered to be a world first in a paper published Wednesday.
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Since the release of a 2013 documentary film Blackfish, the company has faced a rising tide of public anger and pressure from animal rights groups to end orca captivity.
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But the world has not forgotten about the wrongs against Morgan, the Free Morgan Foundation — which includes the organizations of Orcalab, Orca Network, Orca Research Trust, Centre for Whale Research, Project SeaWolf Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island — is continuing to work for the whale's freedom, collecting footage of her abuse and campaigning with the government and courts for her release.
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SeaWorld's vice president of veterinary services, Dr. Hendrik Nollens, it will be the last chance for researchers to study orca development in ways that cannot be done in the wild.
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Attendance and revenue declined after the release of the 2013 documentary about the life of Tilikum, an orca that killed a SeaWorld trainer during a performance in Orlando in 2010.
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Image: NOAA FisheriesA team of experts injected an ailing orca calf with a dose of antibiotics, in a medical intervention that's never been tried before on a wild killer whale.
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Orca Security, a startup based in Israel, announced a healthy $6.5 million seed round today led by YL Ventures, a firm that makes a living investing in Israeli security startups.
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The scientists confirmed it as the fourth instance of a great white shark becoming orca lunch since this past May, according to shark tour company Marine Dynamics SharkWatch SA blog.
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Heterogeneous Collaborative Unmanned Systems (HCUS), as these drones will be known, would be dropped off by either a manned submarine or one of the navy's big new Orca robot submersibles.
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"The death of the orca calf is a heartbreaking reminder of the urgency we face in saving these iconic animals," the governor&aposs spokesman Jaime Smith wrote in an email.
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Blue Orca was launched this month by Soren Aandahl, a Texas-based short-seller who previously co-founded Glaucus Research, which has attacked several firms in the Asia-Pacific region.
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We got the "Jackass" star at LAX ... he's ecstatic about California outlawing orca breeding and captivity programs, and says he's stoked killer whale shows are coming to an end, too.
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Late last year, SeaWorld announced that its signature Shamu show in San Diego would be phased out amid criticism and the threat of legislation to ban the public orca shows.
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In view of the discovery at the Orca-1 well, Kosmos said it had decided to extend the timeline to sell down its interest in the area to next year.
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At the center of the film was the captivity of Tilikum, one of SeaWorld's famous orca whales that had been involved in the deaths of three humans over the years.
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Blue Orca Capital said the owner of the Tumi brand had concealed slowing growth through debt-fuelled acquisitions and had used accounting methods to massage earnings and inflate profit margins.
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La semana pasada fue muy compartida en redes la fotografía de una orca que, mientras nadaba, mantenía sobre su lomo a su cría que murió por desnutrición poco después nacer.
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In 2010, an orca named Tilikum killed its trainer, Dawn Brancheau, by dragging her underwater and drowning her during a routine "Dine With Shamu" show at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.
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In view of the discovery at the Orca-1 well, Kosmos said it had decided to extend the timeline to sell down its interest in the area to next year.
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The lawsuits themselves pose an existential threat, contending Aboriginal groups were not adequately consulted, ecosystems and drinking water could be polluted, and orca and other endangered species will be harmed.
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Jay Inslee of Washington and the Southern Resident Orca Task Force, a state government panel, to begin removing the four dams on the Snake River to aid the starving whales.
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Orca advocates are calling for the dams to be breached as dams alter the habitat, change historic river flow and raise water temperatures, according to Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
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In one of his most notable cases, Scalia argued that SeaWorld had no responsibility for the violent death of one of its orca trainers, choosing instead to blame the victim.
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In September, Switzerland-based Octapharma sponsored a free sea kayaking expedition for 10 hemophilia patients on Washington State's Puget Sound, offering a chance to see pods of orca killer whales.
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"This is the most southerly recording of a beluga in the UK," Lucy Babey, head of science and conservation at marine conservation charity Orca, was quoted as saying in the BBC.
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The Center for Whale Research said the orca population in the area, known as the Southern Resident killer whales, have failed to produce any viable offspring in the past three years.
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Washington's resident orcas that feast exclusively on salmon are having less luck--the fish's numbers have significantly declined, and as its prey shrinks, so do orca populations in the Pacific Northwest.
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Brazilian, Northeast Pacific Bigg's, Canary Islands, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Japanese, Strait of Gibraltar and UK orca populations are all "at high risk of collapse over the next 100 years," the study states.
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They are the last generation of captive killer whales after the company announced in 2016 that it was ending its breeding program and would start phasing out the hallmark orca shows.
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The distressing scene repeated itself again and again over the course of more than two weeks in the summer of 2018 as the mother orca refused to let her baby go.
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Kayla was the second-oldest captive-born orca ever, Dr. Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute, which has been critical of SeaWorld, told the Orlando Sentinel.
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Rose said that "30 is prime of life" for a female orca whose average life span in the wild is 50 years but can go up to 80 or 90 years.
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Free willy Actually, we don't know its name, and it's not an orca, but rescuers are racing to save a blue whale tangled up in a fishing net off California's coast.
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"Orca, as a cloud native security platform, secures both customers' own cloud native and legacy apps migrated to the cloud without needing agents," company co-founder and CEO Avi Shua explained.
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The orca who carried her deceased baby for more than two weeks in a remarkable display of grief has let go of the calf, according to the Center for Whale Research.
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Two famous whales, two very different lives and a powerful example of what captivity means for an orca: not just a potentially shorter life, but a less enriching one, as well.
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I remember my supervisors telling me we had a moral responsibility to diversify the orca gene pool, and that we were actually caring for the whales by experimenting with artificial insemination.
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But when they interact, even a short visit from an orca can send the massive sharks scurrying for long periods of time, according to a new paper published in Scientific Reports.
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They are the last generation of captive killer whales after the company announced last year that it was ending its breeding program and would start phasing out their hallmark orca shows.
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A couple of boaters found themselves directly in the middle of a pod of orca whales hunting a sea lion off of the coast of Bowyer Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Around 60 percent of the orca studied endured a dental procedure known as a "modified pulpotomy," where a hole is drilled into the tooth to extract the soft pulpy tissue inside.
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The criticism intensified after three marine mammals, an orca, a beluga whale and a white-sided dolphin, died at SeaWorld San Antonio within four months in late 2015 and early 2016.
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Amidst protest from multiple orca experts, the animal was stripped of any legal rights and shipped off to Loro Parque in Spain, where she routinely shows signs of stress and depression.
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If you designed a job to embody a kind of old-school masculinity, you couldn't do much better than orca capture, which combines elements of hunting, fishing, rodeo, and unfettered capitalism.
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Orca whales are now prowling the warming waters of the Arctic, as Snider told me, where they were very rare until recently—a top predator that will reshape the food chain.
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From Fremont, it will take about 15 to 20 minutes to get to the city center and will cost $2.75 (you'll need cash if you didn't get an ORCA reloadable card).
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When the 18.903 film "Blackfish" highlighted the story of Tilikum, a captive orca that killed a trainer, it spurred widespread anger over the confinement of the whales by companies like SeaWorld.
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The company unveiled a pricey new Jet Ski-style watercraft called Orca at an event in Toronto Tuesday night that can last for up to two hours on a full charge.
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The Orca has a top speed of 65 miles per hour, and has 228kW of power (about 2000 horsepower) on offer, which sounds like it will make for a fun ride.
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Kyara, the orca born in April to her mom Takara, was being treated by veterinarians for an infection but her health declined over the weekend, SeaWorld said in a statement on Monday.
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The Canadian scientists noted that mother-son orca relationships are quite strong, and mothers tend to help out their adult sons—some have argued that mother whales even help pick their mates.
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As shipping traffic rises, so does the risk of an oil spill, which can be toxic and deadly to orca who are unlikely to detect the presence of chemicals in the water.
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Using this conditioning, the researchers started off by having the orca mimic the sound of other killer whales from different families with different dialects and then began to work with English words.
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Blue Orca Capital issued a report on Thursday saying Samsonite had questionable accounting practices and poor corporate governance, sending shares of the luggage maker plunging 10 percent prior to a trading halt.
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The video shows a pod of orcas chasing a minke whale to the point of exhaustion (typical orca hunting behavior), and then drowning it and ripping it apart with their powerful jaws.
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For the past two years, a research team led by Rebecca Wellard of Curtin University in Perth has accompanied commercial whale-watching boats to catch a glimpse of orca whales in action.
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But more than 24 hours of grieving is a rare occurance, says Deborah Giles, research scientist for University of Washington Center for Conservation Biology and research director for the nonprofit Wild Orca.
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SeaWorld trainers have not been in the water with the killer whales during shows since 2010, when a trainer at its Orlando, Florida, park was killed by an orca during a performance.
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Last Tuesday, SeaWorld sued California authorities in an attempt to overturn a decision that allows the theme park to expand its orca habitat only if it stops breeding killer whales in captivity.
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"It's really important to make sure the right kind of chemists and toxicologists and environmental scientists are reviewing the data and being really critical about how we define orca-friendly," he said.
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"Not Having Found" by Dirty Projectors (New York) The one show I played with Dirty Projectors was over 10 years ago, before Rise Above or Bitte Orca made them a household name.
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As a solver, I'm always excited to see this multiple Orca nominee's byline on a puzzle, so it's an honor for me to join him for his 43rd New York Times crossword.
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SeaWorld — which has long made theatrical orca shows a central attraction in its water parks — depicts orcas as peaceful animals that have only hurt humans in attempts to be playful with them.
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In an astonishingly anti-worker opinion in a case involving a SeaWorld trainer killed by an orca whale, Mr. Kavanaugh wrote in 2014 that the Labor Department was wrong to fine SeaWorld.
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Salt Spring Island is the largest of the southern Gulf Islands, which also include Galiano, home to restaurants like Pilgrimme, and secluded Saturna, where travelers can watch for orca whales from land.
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ORCA, a UK-based charity which studies and protects whales and other marine mammals in Europe, described the findings as an "absolutely tragic state of affairs and one that needs immediate action."
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And it wouldn't be a modern mobility machine without a companion smartphone app and the ability to accept over-the-air updates, both of which Taiga Motors promises will accompany the Orca.
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In addition to the mountain lion project, Conservation Canines works with dogs that sniff orca poop from a nautical mile away and mutts that find caterpillars by seeking out their tiny droppings.
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Cox introduced a motion to support the project with limitations on the number of orcas involved, voting ultimately to support an amended version calling for an end to SeaWorld's orca breeding program.
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Coffman became his girlfriend, and she proved crucial to the success of the band's next album, "Bitte Orca," which came out in 2009 and won Dirty Projectors a wave of new fans.
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One of them includes conspiracy theory enthusiast Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore), who apparently enjoys "the orca part" of Gretchen's teachings (whatever that means) because Cindy once stabbed her boss at SeaWorld.
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Six moths after a grieving orca whale carried the body of her dead calf for weeks and captured the world's attention, a new creature has been spotted mourning the loss of her baby.
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Kasatka is the second orca to die at a SeaWorld in a matter of weeks after her 3-month-old granddaughter, Kyara, died at the marine park in San Antonio in late July.
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Seattle is more than a little late to the game when it comes to centralized mass transit, but the advent of ORCA (One Regional Card for All) has started tying things together nicely.
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ORCA tracks lots of stuff: where and when passengers get on, what type of card it is (subsidized, for instance, or senior), what business (if any) it is associated with and so on.
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LONGEST TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW The baby orca was the first calf born in three years to the endangered orcas, the Center for Whale Research said.
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Your Cognitive Function Could Be Impacted A Week Later, Orca Keeps Diving to Retrieve Dead Calf Find Made at Jamestown May Be a Significant One To Avoid Ticks, Follow Lead of US Military
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Because they no longer capture orcas, this is really an announcement that they are getting out of the orca business a few decades from now when their captive population dies of old age.
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Just one month after a grieving orca mother carried her dead calf for weeks through the waters around San Juan Island, Washington, tragedy has struck another member of the Southern Resident population's Jpod.
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Gabriela Cowperthwaite's documentary film comes from a journalistic and scientific angle, but Hargrove's book is a passionate and specific call to action, based on first-person observation over years as an orca trainer.
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In protest to this breach, a group of Dutch non-government organizations banded together to form the Orca Coalition and take the theme park and Dutch government to court for the permit violation.
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Recently, heart-wrenching footage of an orca whale beaching herself after a performance at Loro Parque in the Carnary Islands caused outrage across the Internet, with many demanding the killer whale be freed.
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Boomer children met Shamu, SeaWorld's first performing orca, in the mid 1960s; millennials had the 1993 film Free Willy, which spawned three sequels, and made its killer-whale cast member, Keiko, a star.
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Blue Orca was launched earlier this month by Soren Aandahl, a Texas-based short-seller who previously co-founded Glaucus Research, which attracted attention for its attacks on several targets in Asia-Pacific.
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As a performer orca at Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France, Wikie was an ideal research subject because she is already trained to understand gestures from her handlers signaling that she copy their actions.
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According to Amazon-focused ad agency Orca Pacific, sales for essential items have increased by single or triple digits while sales for non-essential items have fallen by 20% to 40% from February.
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The Southern Resident orca population is a large extended family made up of three social groups, called pods and named J, K and L. The three missing whales are J17, K25 and L84.
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Researchers found levels of PCB as high as 1,300 milligrams per kilo in the blubber of some orca, studies show that just 50 milligrams per kilo can cause infertility and immune system problems.
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They wanted to see if a 14-year old orca whale living there, named Wikie, could listen to a huge diversity of sounds — from humans, elephants, and whales — and then mimic these noises back.
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Photo: Towers et al (Scientific Reports 2018)A pair of orcas earned their "killer whale" moniker one late fall day in 2016 by committing the first act of orca infanticide ever captured on film.
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A more recent bet is on Orca Security, an Israeli startup led by two former Check Point Security executives that's trying to solve the problem of securing applications in the cloud without an agent.
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SeaWorld, whose shares rose 8.2 percent on Thursday, also said it will scrap plans for a $100 million project called "Blue World" to enlarge its 7-million-gallon orca habitat at SeaWorld San Diego.
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Image: Marine Dynamics"This is the first confirmed account of an orca predation on a white shark from South Africa," Marine Biologist Alison Kock from South African National Parks told Gizmodo in an email.
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The infamous orca spent almost all of his mere 36 years in captivity, stuck in a small tank and trained to perform for years before becoming ill with a bacterial infection and passing away.
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Even though Dirty Projectors has always been a rotating band with you at the center, does that image represent some kind of longing for the way things were, at least with Orca and Magellan ?
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And we know it largely because of the orca display industry, which showed us decades of these giant dolphins interacting with humans, doing tricks, exhibiting levels of intelligence and emotion close to our own.
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But lately, a renewed and brazen orca population, like pirates of the Bering Sea, is aggressively pursuing fisherman for their daily catch, often running away with tens of thousands of pounds of pilfered fish.
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"You will still see a whale leaping out of the water," Al Garver, a former orca trainer and vice president of zoological operations at the San Diego park, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Examples would include, but are not limited to: the great apes, particularly the two species of chimpanzees and the orangutan; cetaceans such as dolphins and orca; elephants; and possibly even the common domesticated dog.
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He and other researchers said the findings could be important for orca conservation, suggesting it's just as vital to protect older, postmenopausal females as it is younger females of breeding age and their offspring.
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In this new study, scientists looked at 10 different species of animals (including walruses, orca whales, and kangaroos as well as humans) and found that in all instances, mothers kept their offspring to the left.
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The kayaker, who's not even in his boat half the time, mostly just swims around in the water with the orca, who is in all likelihood very aware of its ability to devour the man.
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Cowperthwaite interviewed former SeaWorld trainers, whale experts and academics to paint a portrait of the Orlando theme park's orca Tilikum and how he was captured in the wild in 1983 at the age of two.
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Following SeaWorld's announcement on Thursday that it's ending its orca breeding program, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), wants the company to place its existing orcas in sea sanctuaries.
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But John Ghiorso, the founder and CEO of Amazon's ad agency Orca Pacific, said the cost per click for all Amazon ad formats has increased by a low-double-digit percentage over the past year.
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" She added that some orcas "can be successfully transferred to sea pens that mimic their natural environments and potentially released back into their home waters, depending on the needs and abilities of each orca individually.
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But research published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B demonstrates that a captive orca named Wikie is actually capable of mimicking some basic human words, like "hello" and "bye bye," through her blowhole.
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We found him: on the side of the road, on the side of the bed, in my grandmother's garage where he'd tried to make a tomb of the giant powder-blue Oldsmobile we called Orca.
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Orca Pacific's Ghiorso estimated that sales for non-essential sellers decreased between 20% and 40% compared to February while sales for essential items have increased by double or triple digits in the same time period.
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But what pictures they are, each one in this book — horses at the end of the freeway, an orca plane-high above the sprawling city lights — an invitation to tell a story to yourself. Do.
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Those who do buy an Orca will at least be able to customize pretty much everything about its appearance, from the watercraft's colors, to its finish, to the shade and texture of the deck mat.
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Filter feeding whales use their rows of baleen to filter plankton and small fish from the ocean, whereas orca whales use their teeth to chomp down on large prey, such as sea lions and other whales.
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Image: Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics/Dyer Island Conservation TrustAs we've reported, there have been a few notable instances of orcas eating great white sharks before, like this 1997 orca-on-shark attack off the California coast.
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By scat alone, dogs can pinpoint the hard-to-find Puget Sound orca; track populations of black bears, bobcats, and bush dogs; they gather data on bird strikes in wind farms and dairy cows in estrous.
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In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale was pushed by its mother after the birth off the Canadian coast near Victoria, British Columbia.
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"This paper clearly identifies the range and scope of the harms orcas face in captivity and eliminates any lingering question of orca captivity as being ethically justifiable," said Bowman, who wasn't involved with the new work.
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia.
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A satellite-linked transmitter is visible on the dorsal fin of L87, an orca from the southern resident group of killer whales, while swimming in Puget Sound in view of a state ferry west of Seattle.
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"The results we're seeing are that people are actually using transit more frequently now that they have the Orca Lift card, and that is a good thing, because mobility translates to opportunity and productivity," he said.
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The jellyfish light is a "scream for help," according to an ORCA release, which the animal uses to lure in other predators when caught, hoping to escape once its tormenter is distracted by the arriving hunter.
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"The loss of a newborn orca calf from our endangered southern resident killer whale population underscores what's at stake as we work to protect these iconic, beautiful animals from vanishing completely," Mr. Inslee tweeted this week.
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The stuffed hippo, the stuffed tiger, the three or four stuffed dogs, the stuffed orca and toucan and platypus and turtle—I gathered them all into my arms like the storybook zookeeper of some peaceable kingdom.
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I can stand on the beaches of Vancouver to watch the orca whales and after a 30-minute helicopter ride be standing on top of Whistler Mountain, which has one of the world's finest ski resorts.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The last orca to be born at a SeaWorld park, which popularized killer whale shows in the 1960s but faced growing opposition in recent years, has been born in Texas at SeaWorld San Antonio.
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Enmity between SeaWorld and PETA goes back to at least 2004, when the animal rights organization asked the United States Department of Agriculture to ensure that an orca that reportedly had attacked trainers was receiving proper care.
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As reported in RT, scientists with the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) recorded the encounter while surveying an area off the Kamchatka Peninsula with Team Trip, a partnership between FEROP and the Kosatka Cruises tour company.
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In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia
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The outspoken actor and activist, 77, was arrested on Monday after leading a group of PETA supporters in a staged protest of SeaWorld San Diego's "Orca Encounter" show, according to a statement from the animal rights organization.
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TJ Fuller This week, Seaworld announced that it would phase out orca whale breeding and theatrical shows, their first substantial action since Gabriela Cowperthwaite's 2013 Blackfish sparked public outrage at the inhumane treatment of the marine mammals.
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The SEC and the Justice Department have been looking into disclosures and public statements from the theme park operator about the impact of the "Blackfish" documentary, which was critical of SeaWorld and its treatment of orca whales.
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The Poisoned Pollinators Provision weakens important requirements under the ESA that address the toxic pesticides effects on threatened and endangered species including butterflies, bees and other sensitive pollinators, Pacific salmon and steelhead, black-footed ferrets and orca.
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Jason M. Colby chronicles this rise and fall in his book, Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator, beginning with a time when killer whales were still viewed as monsters and pests.
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SeaWorld recently put an end to its captive orca breeding program, and in 2015, Ontario introduced new regulations banning the acquisition or breeding of orcas, leaving Marineland's Kiska as the last one in captivity in the province.
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Around this charged center swirl references to television shows like "Clone High," an animated parody of overly earnest teen dramas; the melancholy music of Elliott Smith; and Tilikum the orca at Sea World who killed three people.
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Finally, back in late 2016, drones took this nightmarish footage of orca whales wrecking a shark:The real question, then, isn't whether orcas eat sharks (they do), but what's changed in Gansbaai to amp up the number of attacks.
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The decision was part of an agreement with the Humane Society of the United States amid public pressure that increased significantly after a male orca, Tilikum, killed a trainer in front of visitors at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010.
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The public relations team at SeaWorld understands that its orcas are still very much tied to the documentary, and so it begins its statement about Tilikum ensuring its audience that the orca was treated as well as possible.
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At one point, the Orca (the boat used in the film) actually started sinking with the cast and crew on it due to a leak, but they were able to send a rescue boat and salvage the footage.
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PETA complained last July that a SeaWorld employee, Paul McComb, had posed as an activist and tried to incite the burning of the parks and draining of the orca tanks, the group's senior vice president, Lisa Lange, said.
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The Nonhuman Rights Project says it's going to push forward, and in addition to fighting on behalf of chimps, it's gearing up to file cases on behalf of circus elephants and orca whales at SeaWorld in San Diego.
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It's been more than two weeks since a mother orca was first spotted carrying her dead calf off the coast of Seattle, and she shows no signs of stopping in what scientists call an "unprecedented" period of mourning.
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A research report issued by U.S.-based short-seller Blue Orca a week earlier said Tainwala had falsely claimed on his resume that he earned a doctorate degree in business administration from Union Institute and University in Cincinnati.
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A baby orca nearly beaches itself in what might be homage; the most charismatic people at a dinner party are shown up in their pettiness; and the smell of a summer meadow manifests in the oddest of places.
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The luggage group lost a fifth of its market value in the previous two trading days after Blue Orca Capital on Thursday questioned accounting practices at Samsonite, including those used in its 2016 acquisition of the Tumi brand.
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Mr. Manby, in his op-ed article, took note of the commission's decision, along with proposed legislation in the California State Legislature and in Congress to ban orca captivity, including the capture, import and export of the whales.
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Tilikum, the orca whose killing of a trainer at a SeaWorld park in Orlando became the focus of the documentary "Blackfish," has been found to have a respiratory disease that could likely end in death, his caretakers said.
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SeaWorld Entertainment rose 8.1 percent after the embattled parks operator said it had been able to stem falling attendance after a bruising fight with animal rights activists that led to the closure of its orca whale breeding program.
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He's one of New Leaf's team of a dozen price experts who chase down their market data and intelligence through a network of commercial players and cannabis industry groups, such as the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association (ORCA).
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The film, which SeaWorld criticized as inaccurate and misleading, also explored the circumstances leading to the 2010 death of a top SeaWorld trainer, who was pulled underwater and drowned by an orca she had performed with in Florida.
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SeaWorld said that after Sunday's final One Ocean show it will transition on Monday to an educational orca program, with bleachers set up around the killer whale underwater viewing area for guests to watch a presentation on the animals.
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Besides one orca at Miami Seaquarium, these 23 are the only ones left in captivity in the U.S. Trainer Amber Seymour works with Katina during the Believe show in Shamu Stadium at the SeaWorld Orlando theme park in 2011.
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They watched as a 46-year-old female orca and her 32-year-old adult son were tailing a 13-year-old mother, her infant child, and a younger sister who had fresh, whale-inflicted cuts at her rear.
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The tragic news of a mother orca whale mourning the death of her calf who died 30 minutes after its birth has led to an outpouring of support from animal lovers, and now the mother whale's family, as well.
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A grassroots movement has recently emerged in which a number of scientists, philosophers, ethicists …Read more ReadIn light of SeaWorld's recent decision to phase out its orca whale population, perhaps zoos should take notice and do likewise with apes.
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This fact, however, is known to the orca, an animal which is peculiarly hostile to the balæna, and the form of which cannot be in any way adequately described, but as an enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth.
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Since much of Oregon is built on floodplains where a number of communities rely on FEMA's insurance program to exist, they say the ESA protections, meant to protect salmon, steelhead and orca whale habitat, are a burden on Oregonians.
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Sea World has worked to sustain these orca populations, including committing $10 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Killer Whale Research Conservation Program — the largest commitment of its kind — to promote prey availability, habitat quality and research.
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After swimming with the baby's body for more than 1,000 miles and 17 days, the mother orca, known as J35 or Tahlequah, has finally dropped the decomposing body into the water, the Center for Whale Research said in a statement Saturday.
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" In a press release from PETA, we learn that Lolita has had no orca companionship since a tragic incident in 1980, "when her tank mate, Hugo, died from injuries sustained when he rammed his head into the tiny tank's concrete wall.
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Image: Marine DynamicsAccording to the Marine Dynamics shark cage diving company's blog, a shark missing its liver is a likely sign that an orca had enjoyed it, possibly with some fava beans and a nice chianti, though those details aren't confirmed.
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Richter starred as Jesse in 1993's "Free Willy" and its sequel "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home" -- in which he played an orphan who befriends an orca at a water park, and eventually sets him free into the wild.
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Blue Orca Capital on Thursday questioned accounting at the world's biggest luggage maker, including those used in its 2016 acquisition of the Tumi brand and argued it did not deserve to trade at similar premium valuations to other luxury brands.
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"Managers and owners of the theme parks should immediately release animal health and dental records so that the zoo and research communities can be better informed of the causes and consequences of dental pathologies in captive orca," Jett told Gizmodo.
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Ford studies the teeth of wild orca whales, of which there are three main varieties: resident (coastal killer whales that subsist primarily on fish), transient (coastal whales that eat marine mammals), and offshore (deep sea orcas that feed on schooling fish).
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As Scientific American once pointed out, orcas (Orcinus orca), which biologists long-believed to be a singular type of whale, have actually been branching off for hundreds of thousands of years into distinct species with their own traits and traditions.
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The book features other similarly anguished folks, including Ted Griffin, who was the first person to swim and perform with a captive orca, and as an entrepreneur was responsible for capturing and selling dozens of killer whales, including the original Shamu.
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Contributing Opinion Writer If emotions were water, and you took all the heartbreak felt by the millions who followed the plight of a starving orca whale grieving over her dead calf, you'd have a river the size of the mighty Columbia.
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"This is a time of extreme volatility marked by massive shifts in buying behaviour that can require a seller to adjust on the fly," said John Ghiorso, CEO of Orca Pacific, an agency that helps merchants sell on Amazon's marketplace.
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Amazon currently takes an 8 to 15 percent commission on outside brands' sales, depending on the category, according to John Ghiorso, the founder and CEO of Orca Pacific, a consulting company for brands that want to sell successfully on Amazon.
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Humans aren&apost the only species that rely on grandmothers to watch the kids: Orca grannies ensure baby whales live longerA California woman punched and elbowed a mountain lion to stop it attacking her dog, but the pet died anyway
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Since much of Oregon is built on floodplains with a number of communities reliant on FEMA's insurance program to exist, they say the ESA protections, meant to protect salmon, steelhead and orca whale habitat, are a lofty burden on Oregonians.
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The film, which was eventually picked up by CNN, offered an indictment of SeaWorld's care of Tilikum, an orca that became one of the park's biggest stars, but that also was involved in the deaths of three people, including his trainer.
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Cowperthwaite interviewed former SeaWorld trainers and whale experts to paint a moving portrait of the Orlando theme park's orca Tilikum, who killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010, and how he was captured in the wild in 1983 at the age of two.
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Under the new plan the orcas will still be shown to visitors at set times, but viewing areas will be reconfigured to "reflect the natural world" with a program focusing on "orca enrichment, exercise and overall health," according to the SeaWorld website.
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Pilates & Yoga Studio: $74 (My membership is $303/month, but work covers up to $35.) Orca Transit Card: ~$40 (My work loads on $75 each month, which is wonderful.) Savings: At least $100, plus anything from my paychecks that I don't spend.
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Mitt Romney's (R-Utah) 2012 White House campaign had its own brush with disaster when an app called Orca, which it used for turning out voters, broke down on Election Day in November, his former chief digital strategist Zac Moffatt recalled Tuesday.
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The decision, as part of an agreement with the Humane Society of the United States, was largely in response to public pressure that increased significantly after a male orca, Tilikum, killed a trainer in front of visitors at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010.
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So, in hopes of getting Morgan international attention and support, the Free Morgan Foundation and the Dolphin Project continue to share videos of the orca being bullied by larger whales, ramming herself against her cage and being forced to do tricks for food.
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SeaWorld said the movie was misleading, but by 2016, attendance had plummeted, at least partially due to the controversy of "Blackfish," which posited that the effects of captivity on orca whales was detrimental to their quality of life and caused them great pain.
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The park has reportedly launched nine lawsuits in the past four years, including against The Star and its former trainers, and most recently against a California filmmaker who included footage of Kiska, its resident orca, in an upcoming film called Black Water.
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An environmental and international historian at the University of Victoria, Colby travels that distance propelled by meticulous research and reporting — he talks to all manner of scientists, researchers and specialists, even orca-adjacent experts like the dolphin trainer-turned-activist Ric O'Barry.
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To get the permit, the Seaquarium, which rakes in millions while housing a lone orca in the smallest tank in North America, agreed to make an annual contribution for five years to a South African charity that rescues penguins impacted by oil spills.
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The statement did not specify the type of bacteria that killed the orca, making it difficult to determine whether or not it is more likely to infect orcas in the wild or in captivity, and it misled readers with regards to the animal's age.
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"This ruling sentences this highly intelligent, deeply lonely, and distressed orca to a lifetime of physical and psychological harm, confined to a tiny concrete cell without family, friends, or freedom," Jared Goodman, director of animal law at the PETA Foundation, said in a statement.
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"The birth of Takara's calf is also the last chance for researchers to study orca development in ways that cannot be done in the wild, helping to benefit wild whales as well as those in SeaWorld's care," the company said in a statement Wednesday.
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There's also an entire collaborative record with Björk ( Mount Wittenberg Orca), and while our favorite Icelandic fairy doesn't do any of the heavy harmonic lifting, the way Deradoorian, Dekle, and Coffman bounce around her steady voice on tracks like "On and Ever Onward" is breathtaking.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its effort will involve shooting antibiotics in the orca to aid with recovery and using a local tribe to feed them fish that has medicine, a rare practice that has not been tried in the wild before.
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We also shouldn't forget that in November 2015, a California congressman filed a federal bill to prohibit the captive breeding and wild capture of orcas, or that Tilikum, the orca who has been the park's primary source of whale sperm for decades, is reportedly dying.
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"Like Humphrey the Humpback and Springer the Orca and Mike the Headless Chicken, every critter I've come up with who 'made the news' was written about in some way that allows their story to coincide with a particular, of-the-moment human concern," she said.
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Blue Orca, which does not hide the fact that it stands to profit if Samsonite's stock price falls, says in its report that investors trade Samsonite shares at a high premium relative to its earnings, as if it were a luxury name comparable to Burberry.
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"This is the first ever record of orcas migrating between Iceland and Italy in killer whale research history, and, we believe, at over 5,200 km, one of the longest migration routes ever recorded in the world to date," the Orca Guardians association in Iceland said.
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The SeaWorld shows, which the park has since said it would end along with its orca breeding program, have been controversial for years, with public opposition growing after the 2013 documentary "Blackfish" depicted the captivity and public exhibition of killer whales as inherently cruel.
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A cartouche over the Indian Ocean warned of "a sea monster that is like the sun when it shines, whose form can hardly be described, except that its skin is soft and its body huge," which experts think is a description of orca whales.
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PETA and local members will hold two memorials for her this week, because while we recognize that it's too late to help her, it's not too late to call attention to SeaWorld's other orca prisoners, who must be released into seaside sanctuaries as soon as possible.
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Image: APThe Ross Sea, located in the icy Southern Ocean due south of New Zealand, is one of the most pristine marine environments left on the Earth, home to orca whales, Adélie penguins and emperor penguins, as well as a cadre of species found nowhere else.
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SeaWorld CEO and president Joel Manby announced in November 2015 that the performance at the San Diego park would be replaced by Orca Encounter, a new presentation focused on the conservation of killer whales; Manby also said that the park would immediately stop breeding the animals.
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The Orca has a waterproof digital display between the handlebars, where riders can tap into what sounds like a fair bit of technology, like GPS maps, LTE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth radios, information from embedded water temperature sensors, and feeds from onboard cameras and a sonar unit.
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To determine whether an orca whale really could learn new vocalizations, Josep Call, professor in evolutionary origins of mind at the University of St Andrews and a co-author of the study, explained how the team chose human sounds, which are not already in the whale's repertoire.
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Photo: APIf Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency does not implement restrictions on pesticides advocated in a recent National Marine Fisheries Services report, environmental activists and commercial fisheries hoping to preserve Pacific Northwest stocks of "salmon, sturgeon, orca and other endangered species" may file lawsuits, the Guardian reported on Sunday.
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In its report, Blue Orca was also critical of how Samsonite engages in a number of related party transactions with entities owned by CEO Ramesh Tainwala and his family and said that its South Asian joint venture with the Tainawala family needed to be subject to more auditing oversight.
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"We weren't really calling attention to the fact that products are going down the drain or running off from gardens and into the water, so what better way to make a statement than labeling certain products as orca safe?" said Randy Burgess, owner of the two Ace stores.
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It is a story not just of the orca business, but also of the evolution of Americans' relationship to the oceans and marine life—the growth of marine parks parallels the shift from an extractive approach to the ocean, as mainly a source of fish, to a recreational one.
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Jay Inslee issued an executive order directing state agencies to do more to protect the whales, and in May he convened the Southern Resident Orca Task Force, a group of state, tribal, provincial and federal officials, to devise ways to stem the loss of the beloved regional creature.
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For example, banks faced repeated questioning from investors about concerns over animal welfare on the €970m buyout financing by Madrid-based theme park operator Parques Reunidos in September, due to its use of orca whales and zoo animals, which generate a relatively small part of the company's revenues.
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Critics raised 13 objections to her captivity, including the small size of Lolita's tank, her lack of an orca companion since the death 38 years ago of her tank mate Hugo, stress and injuries caused by the white-sided dolphins she now lives with, and inadequate treatment by Seaquarium personnel.
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On Thursday, the entertainment company announced it was ending its orca captive breeding program at all of its parks for good, and because it has long since stopped capturing orcas from the wild, that means the current orcas living at SeaWorld parks will be its last generation of killer whales.
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Late last year, the company announced it would be changing its orca shows at its San Diego location by 2017 so the animals didn't have to perform tricks and "dance," but could simply show off their natural movements for the crowds (what that looks like, exactly, is yet to be determined).
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The Center for Whale Research announced Saturday that the mother orca in question -- who goes by both Tahlequah and J1003 -- was seen swimming solo near British Columbia with her pod chasing a school of salmon ... the first time she'd been seen without the body of her deceased calf since July 24.
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"Wildlife photography is very opportunistic and luck based, you can't just say 'okay today I'm going out to shoot orca', we were just in the right place at the right time and the conditions that day were perfect for photography and for flying the drone," Preston told the New Zealand Herald.
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A starving, emaciated orca named Scarlet, aka J50, might already be dead by now if it wasn't for the scientists and tribes who secured a supply of live chinook salmon — the Southern Residents' favorite food — and came up with ingenious ways to deliver antibiotics and other medicines that might help.
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As Kavanaugh criticized a Labor Department move to sanction SeaWorld following the drowning of a trainer by the orca Tilikum, he declared that the agency had "stormed headlong into a new regulatory arena" and warned that regulators would try to impose new safety requirements on sports, the circus and more.
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As Kavanaugh blasted a Labor Department move to sanction SeaWorld following the drowning of a trainer by the orca Tilikum, he declared that the agency had "stormed headlong into a new regulatory arena" and warned that regulators would try to impose new safety requirements on sports, the circus and more.
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It offered a grim view of Tilikum's life—spent isolated from others of his species, without the social bonds of a wild pod, confined to a pen where he swam in tiny circles for so long that his dorsal fin flopped to one side—and of the orca-display industry in general.
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The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us Losing My Son to Reading Americans Are Terrible at Small Talk Feminists in Line for Free Lipstick The Nation Magazine Betrays a Poet — and Itself Surviving Myself The Earth Ablaze The Outrage Over Sarah Jeong Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it in the comments.
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Amazon is the first place a majority of online shoppers go to search for products, and that will push more direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands that have traditionally avoided Amazon to sell on the site as well, according to John Ghiorso, the CEO of Orca Pacific, a consulting agency for Amazon sellers.
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WASHINGTON MONTANA ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ Portland ][ ][ LARGE DAMS North Fork Middle Fork OREGON IDAHO WASHINGTON IDAHO ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ LARGE DAMS Portland Middle Fork OREGON By The New York Times But hatchery fish are not the same, said Deborah A. Giles, science and research director at Wild Orca, a group that studies and advocates for protection of the whales.
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