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white whale. It turns out that all I needed to do was head to Tromso in Norway, where the orca visit every winter to make the most of the plentiful fish supplies in the freezing waters off the ...

It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed ...

But all that work was gone in just ... as well as Stella the sea lion, Stubby the orca calf, and Arnie the grey whale. There ...