Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us

by David Neiwert

“Orcas may not be very intelligent humans, but humans are really stupid orcas.”

transients and residents have not interbred in perhaps as long as 700,000 years, longer than humans have even been around.

there are ten different ecotypes of killer whales that scientists recognize under the “species complex” approach, divided by Northern and Southern hemispheres.

the four Antarctic orca populations comprise over 70 percent of the world’s estimated total population of 100,000 orcas; one survey put the total Antarctic population at 80,000.)

Taking your family to a SeaWorld facility or to the Seaquarium, is akin going to a nautical circus show;