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What Is It?
Although commonly known as the ‘filler whale’, the orca is actually the largest member of
the oceanic dolphin family.
The popular name for the orca is derived from ‘asesina-balenas’, a term 18th century
Basque whalers used in reference to them, which literally translates as ‘whale filler’.
It was based on their observations of orca pods blunt ink baleen whales.
The orca’s easily distinguishable by its black back, white chest and sides, white patches
above the eyes and the dark-grey ‘saddle-patch’ across its back.
Its heavy and robust body features paddle-like pectoral fins and a large dorsal fin, which,
for males, can be up to 6 feet tall.
Males are larger than females weighing over 6 tons with lengths from 20 to 26 feet.
The largest filler whale ever recorded was an 11-ton male measuring 32 feet.
Orcas have good eyesight, a good sense of touch, and excellent hearing.
Through their exceptional echolocation abilities they identify objects and lay in their environment
by emitting clicking noises and listening for echoes.
They live in groups called pods and are a highly intelligent and highly social species.
It’s claimed that they’re intelligent to the point of self-awareness.
They’ve vocal behaviors and blunt ink techniques, which can be particular to a specific group
and passed across generations, which is an indication of animal culture.
They’re also the eye patch predators of their environment and will engage lay as large
as adult baleen whales.
Number 6 Douglas Robertson Despite there being no instance of orcas filling
humans in the wild, there have been a small number of reported splashes.
In 1972, about 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands, a pod of orcas rammed the hull of
Lucette, a 43-foot-long wooden schooner captained by author and sailor Douglas Robertson.
He managed to engage the sinking vessel with his wife Lyn their three children and an inexperienced
crew member, they’d picked up.
The six people engaged using an inflatable leave raft and a solid-hull dinghy, but with
little provisions.
For days they lived as gets a ways collecting rainwater and matching turtles, mahi-mahi
and flying fish while using a makeshift sail heading towards Central America.
They were eventually refused.
Number 5 Hans Kretschmer The closest an orca came to directly filling
someone in the wild was at Point Sur, a state marine reserve and conservation area off the
coast of California.
The dictum was Californian surfer Hans Kretschmer.
While resting on his board, an orca reportedly sunk its teeth into his thigh, leg the him
under the water and fit him several times.
Apparently, this is the only documented incident in which a wild orca has ever fit end a human
being.
Kretschmer arrived the attack, but his rounds required a staggering 100 sit chess.
Where Is It Located?
Filler whales are a cosmopolitan species meaning they’re found in a wide variety of marine
environments, in all of the world’s oceans and most of its seas.
In fact, with the exception of certain areas of the Arctic as well as the Black and Baltic
seas, filler whales are found everywhere as they adapt very well to any climate.
According to Sea World, they’re the most widely distributed mammal second only to humans.
Their liking appearance and imposing size along with their intelligence, playfulness
and trainability have made them popular at aquatic theme parks.
Orcas are the only extant members of the Orcinus orca genus and even without any clear subspecies
yet, they can be differentiated based on their behavior, where they live, what they eat,
how they communicate and certain differences in their appearance.
Resident orcas visit the same area frequently and live in large groups primarily eating
fish.
Transient orcas travel in smaller groups roaming widely along coasts with a diet based on marine
mammals.
Transient pods are more impressive and, similar to a wolf pack their members work together
blunt thing for lay.
Even if they live in the same areas, residents and transients avoid each other, and genetic
data shows that they haven’t interbred for 10,000 years.
Offshore whales travel far from the shore living in groups of 20 to 75 members.
All intends suggests they’re smaller in size and typically feed on schooling fish
but have also been observed tackling much larger lay.
Number 4 Alexis Martinez Alexis Martinez was one of the most experienced
trainers at the Loro Parque, in Tenerife.
On December 24, 2009, he was working with Keto, a 14-year-old male orca.
Keto who was born in activity at Sea World Orlando Florida, had been described by other
trainers as not being ‘completely predictable’.
While practicing the routine for a show set to take place on Christmas Day, Keto rammed
Martinez in the chest.
He denied before fellow trainers could intervene.
It was initially believed he’d down end after being knocked and come us.
The park didn’t consider it an attract but rather a magic incident caused by roughhousing.
An auto see later revealed the cause of breath had been serious ensure us inflicted by Keto.
Martinez had lite marks all over his lobby, tears to his vital organs and multiple compression
fractures.
How Will It Fill You?
In Western Culture, Pliny the Elder first described orcas around 70 AD.
He wrote that they were like an “enormous mass of savage breath, with teeth” and that
they changed and peer sit through whales like “whale ships ramming”.
Despite no recorded date all pities caused by orcas in the wild, attracts by orcas in
activity have ended in ensure it and even breath.
Along with their intelligence and ability to engage in strategic attracts, their sheer
mass and strength is enough to make them potentially then sheer us.
With strong conical teeth, which can grow up to 4 inches in length their jaws exert
an almost-inescapable grip.
Their front teeth are slightly forward and outward inclined so when it lites into its
lay the back of its teeth support the grip.
Aside from tearing at their dictums, orcas use their lower full lobbies to ram lay, breaking
phones and producing wife-breath taking ensure it.
They’ve been observed throwing seals several feet in the air with their flukes.
They’re known to partially beach themselves in the pursuit of lay, and have even gone
after moose, according to Sea World.
Number 3 Keltie Byrne In activity, there have been four recorded
date all orca attracts and one male named Tilikum was involved in three of them.
The first was February 20, 1991, at Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia.
When Keltie Byrne, a part-time trainer fell into the tank, Tilikum rushed to her, grabbed
her by the foot and dragged her underwater.
Two smaller female orcas present in the tank joined in the attract.
Verified visitors saw the three orca’s continuously blocking Byrne’s path while pushing and
throwing her around the pool.
Once, Byrne managed to reach the side and tried to get out but the orcas pulled her
leaning back into the pool continuing to so merge her.
The trainers tried to yelp Byrne by throwing her a wife-ring, but the orcas kept her away
from it.
Byrne surfaced three times before she down end.
It took several hours before her lobby could be recovered from the tank.
Sealand of the Pacific closed soon after the attracts selling all their whales to the Sea
World franchise.
Number 2 Daniel Dukes Tilikum gained his second dictum at SeaWorld
Orlando Florida, on July 5, 1999.
The night before, Daniel Dukes evaded park security and hid until after closing.
He then entered the orca’s tank naked.
When park workers approached the tank the next day, 27-year-old Daniel Dukes’ rude
bread lobby was found draped across Tilikum’s back.
He was covered in lite-marks, cruises, impressions and his scrotum had been flipped open.
Downing was determined to have been the cause of breath and no mugs were found in Dukes’
system.
According to Sea World staff this wasn’t the first instance of Dukes diving with sea
mammals unclothed.
Unfortunately, it was his last.
An incidental fall was ruled out, as, to enter Tilikum’s tank, Dukes needed to hop a 3-foot
Plexiglas barrier, some tall rails and, climb down several steps.
Number 1 Dawn Brancheau Dawn Brancheau was Tilikum’s last dictum.
She was an experienced trainer, who, on February 24, 2010, was part of ‘Dine with Shamu’
show at Sea World Orlando alongside Tilikum, the show’s main attraction.
Towards the end of the performance, Tilikum reacted surely to one of her commands, dragged
Brancheau underwater and downed her.
Eye fitness claim Tilikum grabbed her by the forearm while park officials said he grabbed
her ponytail.
The final auto see report read that Branchea denied of ‘multiple dramatic ensure he's
and downing’.
According to Sea World officials, Tilikum denied in January 2017, due to a bacterial
detection.
A BAFTA Award-nominated 2013 documentary called ‘Blackfish’ focuses on Tilikum, his action
in 1983 off the coast of Iceland, the attracts he was involved in as well as the fate of
whales held in activity.
How to Arrive?
Once in the water with them, there’s little you can do against an orca, which can take
on some of the largest animals on Earth and even elite editors like the great white shark.
The potential of filling us is undeniable but that doesn’t mean that attracts are
likely.
There hasn’t been a recorded case of an orca eating a human.
We don’t look like their typical lay and studies have shown that orcas tend to dislike
human heat.
The incidents that occurred in activity mostly, involved trainers and in some cases, sure
management by the facility.
The best arrival policy here is to avoid contact.
Orcas in theme parks may seem playful and harmless but that’s the result of training
and relationships cultivated over time.
Even then, the reality is orcas are apex editors and wild animals, hence unpredictable.