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Topic: Orcas

A pod of Killer Whales making an attack in the wild waters (Getty Images/Ron Sanford)

Orcas sink a yacht, continuing spree

Matthew Rozsa
Close up view of a female killer whale swimming in blue water (Getty Images/wildestanimal)

Orca misinformation is killing them

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Like us, these five animals have culture

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Killer Whale family with Yacht (Getty Images/Jackson Roberts)

Are the orca "attacks" spreading?

Nicole Karlis
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Life reconstruction of Olympicetus thalassodon pursuing a school of fishes alongside plotopterid birds (background) somewhere in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. (Art by Cullen Townsend)

Ancient dolphin cousins with weird teeth

Matthew Rozsa
Killer Whale near a boat (Getty Images/Chase Dekker Wild-Life Images)

Are the attacking orcas bound to lose?

Nicole Karlis
Baby Orca whale with its pod. (Getty Images/thecrystalfocus)

Why are killer whales attacking boats?

Luke Rendell - The Conversation
Baby Orca whale with its pod. (Getty Images/thecrystalfocus)

Orca 'adopts' a baby dolphin

Troy Farah
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(Getty/MarkMalleson)

What killer whales need from humans

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A bumblebee, chimpanzee and humpback whale (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do animals have social lives?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/cullenphotos)

Scientists discover a new killer whale

Nicole Karlis
An orca near Catalina Island, Calif., Dec. 12, 1999. (AP)

Orca carries dead calf for 10 days

Matthew Rozsa
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(Discovery Channel via AP)

dueling shark programming

George Burgess - The Conversation
Tilikum, photographed during a training session at the theme park's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla., March 7, 2011. (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

The life and death of Tilikum

John Hargrove
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Greed, inequality, abortion

Valerie Tarico
SeaWorld in San Diego, Calif. (AP/Seaworld San Diego)

Asha Parker
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(AP//SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.)

The SeaWorld paradigm shift

Andrew O'Hehir
(Irena Silvestrova/Shutterstock)

SeaWorld's latest deception

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Elaine Thompson)

Are killer whales persons?

David Neiwert

SeaWorld trainer speaks out

Lindsay Abrams
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Rachel Clark - The Dodo
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-108535p1.html'>ventdusud</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Free this whale!

David Neiwert

Eva Saulitis
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