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

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