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• A mature, healthy sperm whale has no natural predators, although calves and weakened adults are sometimes killed by pods of killer whales (orcas).
• The main attractions are Peninsula Valdés and other marine wildlife reservoirs such as Punta Tombo and Punta Ninfas, with right whales, eared seals, elephant seals, penguins, orcas and many other animals.
• A5 pod, a name given to a group of orcas (Orcinus orca) found off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
• The name "Orcas" is a shortened form of Horcasitas, from Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, the Viceroy of New Spain who sent an exploration expedition under Francisco de Eliza to the Pacific Northwest in 1791.
• The sea lions themselves are preyed on by orcas and sharks; at Peninsula Valdes, orcas will beach themselves and grab sea lions near shore.
• Marineland was home to Orky and Corky, two of the most famous orcas on exhibit at any oceanarium at the time.
• Among these are: sperm whales, orcas, several species of Minke whales, beaked whales, and porpoises, humpbacks and endangered species such as the North Pacific right whales and fin whales.
• Species that have include the great apes, a single Asian elephant, manta rays, dolphins, orcas, the Eurasian magpie, and the cleaner wrasse.
• The Coast's wildlife includes cougars, black bears, wolves, marbled murrelet, orcas, great blue herons, seals, sea lions and bald eagles.
• However, matrilines within a pod frequently socialize with one another, more so than with orcas from another pod—thus still making up a distinct community, and so perpetuating the use of the pod naming.
• The main orcas used for filming, called Yaka and Nepo, were trained animals from Marineland of the Pacific and Marine World Africa (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), though artificial rubber whales were also used.
• From about 1840 to 1920, orcas smacked the water off Twofold Bay in New South Wales to signal to human whalers that the orcas were herding large baleen whales nearby, so the humans would send boats to harpoon the whales, killing them faster and more assuredly than the orcas could.
• Lolita was one of seven young orcas sold to oceanariums and marine mammal parks around the world from a capture of over eighty whales conducted by Ted Griffin and Don Goldsberry, partners in an operation known as Namu, Inc.
• In February 2006, Loro Parque received four young orcas: two males, Keto (born in 1995) and Tekoa (2000), and two females, Kohana (2002) and Skyla (2004) on loan from SeaWorld.
• An adult male, Ramu (actually Ramu III) was caught on 8 August 1970, after his pod of eighty orcas was 'corralled' during the Penn Cove capture in Penn Cove, near Coupeville, Washington, United States (six others were also caught, while four died and the remaining 69 escaped).
• While the exact number of orcas in the pod is unknown, 21 were known by name, identified by their differences in dorsal fins: Stranger, Jackson, Hooky, Humpy, Cooper, Typee, Big Ben, Young Ben, Kinscher, Jimmy, Sharkey, Charlie Adgery, Brierly, Albert, Youngster, Walker, Big Jack, Little Jack, Skinner, and Montague.
• Scientists including Michael Bigg and Paul Spong have been researching the orcas in the Strait since 1970.
• There is predation by orcas on commercial longline and dropline fish catches, including around Tasmania, causing significant financial loss to commercial fishers, and threat to orcas, which can become caught or entangled, exposed to ship strikes when moving or migrating, or suffer retaliation from fishers.
• Some of the strategies orcas employ include producing large waves to knock seals off ice floes, or even beaching themselves to catch sea lions.

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