In fact, I’ve been told it is quite the reverse: post-menopausal female orcas have a decidedly cougar-like sex life and are often seen soliciting eager young pubescent males for sex. Trawling through more than forty years of underwater footage, field notes and photo IDs of dorsal fins, Croft and his team did discover that the post-menopausal females were more often than not the ones swimming at the front of the pod, guiding their family to the best foraging grounds, especially when food was in short supply.
