Home, for these whales, is not a place. Their home is each other. This profoundly affects the behavior of the killer whales, because the pod’s well-being is essential to their own. This is why, throughout killer whale societies, prey sharing is common. Cooperative behavior is the rule, and physical conflict is almost completely unknown. However, all this is only strictly true of the resident killer whales of the North Pacific, including those in southeastern Alaska and western British Columbia, which have a chief common trait of being strictly fish-eating orcas, with Chinook salmon comprising
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Home is not a place for these whales it is a pod-eachother
