- Güney topluluğu : 2005 yılı itibarıyla ve Luna (L98) adlı erkek katil balina da sayılmak üzere; 1 boy, 3 sürü ve 92 katil balinadan oluşur.
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- In addition, cool killer whales facts, whale mothers tend to breed ones that do not have very closed relation in their pod rather than with relatives.
- It’s believed that sailors who witnessed orcas hunting whales initially referred to them as “whale killers,” a term that eventually morphed to “killer whales.”
- Two unnamed subspecies are recognized off the West Coast of North America – mammal-eating ‘transient’ and fish-eating ‘resident’ killer whales.
- Distribution: Worldwide (see map below and full list of countries in the de-tailed species account online at: https://wwhandbook.iwc.int/en/species/ killer-whale).
- The most popular movies that have featured Killer whales include Happy Feet, Free Willy, and Namu: The Killer whale.
- Known as: Killer Whale, Orca, Orca Whale, Blackfish, Orcinus orca
- Estimated numbers left in the wild: At least 50,000, probably quite a bit higher.
- Orca gladiator (Bonnaterre, 1789). The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.
- Despite the common misnomer of “killer whale”, they are in fact members of the Delphinidae family which are oceanic dolphins.
Katil balina
Orka olarak da bilinir, okyanus yunusları ailesinin en iri üyesidir. Yayılım genişliği olarak dünyada en yaygın ikinci memelidir ve tüm okyanuslarda bulunur. Çok yönlü bir yırtıcıdır ve balık, deniz kaplumbağası, kuş, fok, köpek balıkları ve hatta diğer genç ve küçük yunusları yer. Bu şekilde deniz besin zincirinin en üst noktasındadır. Katil balina ayrıca diğer balinalara özellikle gri balinalara da saldırır.
Kısa bilgiler
- Familya:Delphinidae
- Cins:Orcinus