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  • New type of orca is the big game hunter of the sea

    10/06/2021 1:44:04 AM PDT · by blueplum · 16 replies
    Canada's National Observer ^ | 05 October 2021 | Rochelle Baker | News, Island Insider
    There’s a new type of killer whale that prowls deeper waters and specializes in hunting big game, new research by a B.C. scientist suggests. ...But evidence indicates there’s a newly identified type of orca — outer coast killer whales — that are a distinct subgroup of transient whales, and which frequent the ocean depths along the continental shelf off the coast of central California and Oregon, said lead author Josh McInnes, a scientist with the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. Once believed to be part of the larger West Coast population, these outer coast killer...