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Orca Network - Transient orcas
Transient orcas Transient orcas Transients in Hood Canal, January 24, 2003 These Transient orca calls were recorded on Hood Canal in February, 2003. Any attempt to describe transients, or for that matter any community of orcas ... date, however there are no known cases of orcas eating or even harming a human. About 200 individually identified transient orcas are commonly seen along the coastline of ...
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Transient Orcas of the Pacific Northwest
Transient Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Transient Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Periodically in the waters ... P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,X,Y,Z Characteristics of Transient Pods: Transient pods contain 1-7 individuals, in average between 3 and 4 ... seals, sea lions,and walruses) and cetaceans(dolphins, porpoises, and larger whales). Transient pods vocalize less than resident pods especially when foraging for food ...
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Marine Connection - General News
Click here ... which now makes 88 whales in the "southern resident" population of orcas that summers in Puget Sound. These particular whales were listed in ... the attention the animal has attracted. Click here for further details Transient orcas on the move (Added: 27 March 2008) Each year, around April ...
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The Marine Mammal Center
People often wonder why orcas are also called killer whales. Mariners and whalers observed transient orcas eating other whales. Thus they were named "whale killer ... their immune and reproductive systems. As resident orcas eat more bottom-dwelling fish instead of salmon, they accumulate more PCBs. Recently, transient orcas have been classified as the "most ...
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Orca-Facts 5
The top of the dorsal fin of Transient orcas tends to be more pointed than that of Resident orcas. Less obvious, the saddle patch ( the grey pigmentation along the ... fairly early on. It is not rare for lone Transient male orcas to be sighted. Though relatively little is known at this stage, Transient dispersal might represent a coordinated scheme which allows them ...
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OrcaInfo
Families can be distinguished from one another by their dialects. Transient orcas. Transient orcas generally form smaller and more variable social groupings than residents, roam over a larger area ... such as seals and sea lions.
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OrcaInfo
Atlantic the resident orcas depend on the large schools of herring. Elsewhere, orcas are known to eat sting rays, sharks and squid. Transient orcas primarily hunt marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, elephant seals, porpoise, dolphins, whales and occasionally sea birds. There are populations of orcas which enjoy ...
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Charlie Chin and Pointednose Cow
Pointednose Cow Charlie Chin, scientifically designated M1 and now, with the new naming system for transient orcas, referred to as T1, and his probable mother Pointednose Cow, scientifically named M2 and ... . Pointednose Cow After their escape, Charlie Chin and Pointednose Cow returned to a typical transient's lifestyle, hunting harbour seals and other marine mammals. Pointednose Cow gave birth to ...
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Orcas of the Salish Sea, Part 1
Transient Orcas That revelation helped resolve another observation—sometimes observers found small groups of unidentified orcas separate from the large pods of known orcas. On rare ... transient orcas along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico are believed to use similar vocalizations, indicating they are all members of a single, widespread community. First-born transient ...
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Center for Whale Research - Orca Survey
Sound area of the Pacific Northwest and use this data to understand the orcas' population dynamics. These photographic records combined with the monitoring of human activities ... to obtain Data Location Types of Orcas in the Pacific Northwest Resident Orcas Transient Orcas Offshore Orcas How to Identify Individual Orcas How to Sex Orcas Behavior Vocalization Recent Discoveries Longevity Sympatric ...
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