103 Year Old Orca Whale Spotted Off Canada

Soo, its said an orca could dive to over 800' but usually keeps to 300ish.

 

My tacoma with bat ray vision at night can safely do 130 without looking at the speedometer, although I usually stick to around five above the speed limit.

 

Please tell me you are not using orca meat that is over 50 years old for your OrcaDogs.
That would be inhumane.
Monster.

 

You should be ashamed.

 

You should be so lucky.

 

if that's the case, my sincerest apologies.

 

Logan's run orca style, not good.

 

How dare you!
Who the hell are you to dictate an orca's right to have a baby?
Through the money contributed to the SeaWorld Wildlife Fund, scientists have been able to extract embryos from female orcas and create test-tube calfs in the laboratory from orca studs in captivity.
Chatting it up with the other, younger orca mothers is not a right you or I should be able to take away from them. If a 42year old lady-orca wants to have the chance for her offspring to be whisked away to a facility thousands of miles away, what gives you the right to deny her that?
Monster!!

 

http://aquaticmammalsjournal.org/sh...es/1998/AquaticMammals_24-02/24-02_Visser.pdf

Looks like everyone is blaming SeaWorld for what can naturally happen in the ocean

http://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/killer-whale/

 

IBTL

Let me guess, this occurred between Fri and Sun? No one took it, you mis-placed and have no recollection where ... It is gone.

Nice!

 

Exactly, brother!!
Despite research that indicates dehydration is the factor in the collagen breaking down, causing dorsal fin collapse, Seaworld has found the cure.
The SeaWorld Busch Gardens Conservation Foundation is proud to present its newest contribution to the captive orca rehabilitation program.
The Dorsal Fin Collapse Brace made by Johnson&Johnson/Depuy Orthopedics.

 

:crickets:

 

Ingrid N. Visser who studies killer whales in New Zealand found that 23% of the New Zealand orca population have some form of collapsing, collapsed or twisted dorsal fins. It has been noted that 2 of the 30 male killer whales in the NZ population also had body scarring and bite marks from other killer whales. 4.7% adult male orcas in British Columbia have dorsal fin deformities and 0.57% in Norway. It has been found from a well-studied group of wild killer whales off the coast of British Columbia that the total rate of dorsal fin collapse is around 1%.

http://thisisplanetocean.blogspot.ca/2013/03/why-collapsed-dorsal-fin.html?m=1

The collapsed dorsal fins commonly seen in captive killer whales (Hoyt 1992) do not result from a pathogenic condition, but are instead thought to most likely originate from an irreversible structural change in the fin’s collagen over time (B. Hanson, pers. comm.). Possible explanations for this include (1) alterations in water balance caused by the stresses of captivity or dietary changes, (2) lowered blood pressure due to reduced activity patterns, or (3) overheating of the collagen brought on by greater exposure of the fin to the ambient air. Collapsed or collapsing dorsal fins are rare in most wild populations (Hoyt 1992, Ford et al. 1994, Visser 1998, Ford and Ellis 1999) and usually result from a serious injury to the fin, such as from being shot or colliding with a vessel. Matkin and Saulitis (1997) reported that the dorsal fins of two male resident whales in Alaska began to fold soon after their pod’s exposure to oil during the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and were completely flattened within two years. Both animals were suspected to be in poor health and subsequently died. The dorsal fin of a male transient stranded at Dungeness Bay, Washington, in 2002 showed signs of collapse after three days, but regained its natural upright appearance as soon as the whale resumed strong normal swimming upon release (J. P. Schroeder, pers. obs.).


http://web.archive.org/web/20070221...rvation-Planning/upload/SRKW-propConsPlan.pdf


Contains a study in the Edit if you are actually interested

http://cetaceaninspiration.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/why-does-an-orcas-dorsal-fin-collapse/

 

Damn theif!

 

No need to worry , those guys have no interest in reading any of the provided info , they are set in they are denial of the scientific info on the subject

 

If you are a large corporation with an agenda, you can buy your own "science."

 

You guys have it all wrong , the researchers in the 70's and 80's that determined the estimated ages for Granny and the rest of J pod only did that because they had an agenda to support the claims of a film that would be filmed 30 or 40 years later , duh