KILLER whales have been spotted giving gifts to humans in “extremely unusual” behaviour, baffled scientists say. Dozens of ...

Ken Balcomb, a researcher who spent nearly five decades studying the Pacific Northwest's charismatic and endangered killer whales — and whose findings helped end their capture for display at ...

Prices were escalating, as well. According to a book by Erich Hoyt, in 1979, a young orca from Iceland sold for $150,000. Prices later reached $300,000. The last known orca capture was in Japan in ...

In one 1970s capture in the Pacific Northwest, documented in both Killer In The Pool and the documentary Blackfish, boats, explosives, and nets were used to ensnare dozens of orcas so that young ...

The orca is an apex predator. They are brilliant and often work together to take down large prey, including baby whales.

The boom to capture and display orcas peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, generating millions of dollars in profit for marine park owners. As research on killer whales progressed, so did public ...

This behavior became so prevalent that by the time people started capturing orcas in the 1970s to put them on display in places like SeaWorld, close to one-quarter of those captured had been shot ...

After the fouled 2003 capture, the hunt for killer whales in Russia’s far east seemed to stop for a while. But in 2012, the captures resumed. A young female killer whale, ...

SEATTLE — Federal biologists said Wednesday they are preparing a plan to capture and treat a sick, critically endangered orca if there is no other way to save her in the wild. Officials said ...

After the fouled 2003 capture, the hunt for killer whales in Russia’s far east seemed to stop for a while. But in 2012, the captures resumed. A young female killer whale, ...