Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994. Wood, Forrest G. Marine Mammals and Man: The Navy's ... Barrett-Lennard, Lance G., Craig O. Matkin, John W. Durban, Eva L. Saulitis, and David Ellifrit. “Predation of Gray Whales and Prolonged Feeding on ...
White and another attendant were offering salmon, with little hope, but on this occasion, Charlie Chin took interest. “He opens his mouth and he takes the salmon,” White recounted, “and he is sitting on the surface and he's starting to ...
his partners made their third catch in December 1969, Wright sent Ellis to take a look.22 Soon after, Wright agreed to pay $20,000 for a young female. But as the fishermen prepared to separate the animal from her podmates, ...
Orca
Killer whale seeks revenge on a fisherman who killed his offspring.
In Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home journalist Lynda V. Mapes explores the natural history of the orca and the unique challenges for survival of the Southern Resident group that frequents Puget Sound.
"Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness...
Full-color photographs capture whales breaching, playing, hunting, and caring for their young. The book also discusses the ethics of captivity and the environmental threats to whale populations.
Against the clamour and thrill of the cage-diving season in full swing, Richard Peirce visits the unfolding drama and explores what’s behind these strange events.
"This revised fifth edition includes Hoyt's original account of his trips to the waters off Vancouver Island in the 1970s to help make a documentary about the killer whale, about which little was known then.
This is the definitive history of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca"--and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.
Once on the high seas, unexpected enemies and incredible allies soon propel little Orca across the Pacific and into the unforgiving Southern Ocean.
But a young boy saved his life and then needs help, Vlad Taltos pays his debt--even if it means uncovering a financial scandal big enough to bring down the House of the Orca and the entire Empire.
Account of a study of killer whales undertaken between 1973 and 1979 off the coast of BC.
Strong, smart, and fearless, orcas are awesome. They are often called killer whales, but they aren't whales at all. They are dolphins! Read this book to learn all about awesome orcas.
Quietly cruising through a Northern fiord, diving underwater with astonishing grace, or hurtling their bodies skyward in a leaping breach, killer whales have long been admired as one of the...