If you live on the West Coast then you need to know these FIVE FACTS ABOUT ORCAS: 🐋 1. Orcas have been roaming oceans for approximately six million years! That’s 30 times longer than humans! 2. Orcas have the second largest brain of any animal in the world. 3. Every orca is individually identifiable because they each have a unique dorsal fin and saddle patch. 4. Southern resident orca, J-2 aka Granny, was the oldest known orca in the world. She lived to be 105 years old. 5. Orcas are some of th

*sound on* What is this wild male orca communicating? What we hear in this clip are not just random, meaningless sounds. This orca is expressing a complex communication system that is currently beyond the scope of human understanding. But what we do know is that this communication is a sharing of vital information within the pod. It is connection, relationship, in other words, it is culture. Individual orcas express their identity through cultural habits, including dialects—sets of calls learned

The language of the Orca. *Sound on - Orca Vocalisations* In the deep fjords and kelp-fringed passages of Northeast Vancouver Island, the Northern Resident orcas speak in voices older than memory. Their calls, squelches, whistles, and pulsed cries, are not random sounds, but ancestral songs passed down through matrilines like sacred heirlooms. Each pod carries its own dialect, a signature woven from generations of echo and experience. Ahlé, a call of greeting. Kéé, a warning. Some sounds are pla

A woman sailing a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea filmed a frightening encounter with a huge orca, which attacked her vessel by repeatedly banging into it. | ABC News