Educational resources on Killer Whale

Killer Whale or Orcinus orca is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Conservation Dependent . IUCN Profile of the Killer Whale

Academic web links for the Killer Whale.

Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
Killer Whale Order Cetacea: Family Delphinidae : Orcinus orca (Linnaeus) Description. Killer whales are the largest of the dolphin family.
www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/orciorca.htm

Killer whale data base
A cooperative project between The Prince William Sound Science Center and The North Gulf Oceanic Society Science Center Principal Investigator: David Scheel
marine.alaskapacific.edu/kw

Killer Whales
Now that you've found out more about the killer whale, do you have more respect for them? Think about it. Here is a fact file that we found: Common name; Killer Whale
www.ucls.uchicago.edu/students/projects/1996-97/Hillocks96/killer_whales.html

Killer Whale bibliography
Andrews, B., and T. Desmond. 1981. Killer Whale Births. Whalewatcher. 15(1):8-9.
whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/bib_killer_whale.html

ADW: Orcinus orca: Information
The killer whale hears the whistles and clicks through an auditory bulla (earbone complex) in its lower jaw. The sound waves enter through the jaw where they then enter into the
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Orcinus_orca.html

Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata)
Pygmy Killer Whale Order Cetacea: Family Delphinidae : Feresa attenuata Gray. Description. A small, blunt-nosed, toothed cetacean similar to the false killer
www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/fereatte.htm

Comparative Placentation
Killer Whale Orcinus orca. Order: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae . 1) General Zoological Data . There is a single species of Orcinus that populates all oceans; the former subdivisions have
placentation.ucsd.edu/killerwhale.htm

Killer Whale Individual-Based Model
June 6, 2007 - This web page contains information about the individual-based modeling project, "Agent-Based Models of Predator-Prey Relationships between Killer
www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~orca

Sounds/WhaleNet at Wheelock College, Boston
Killer Whale Sounds - B.C. Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program. a GREAT resource for info, images, and video. (Humpback Songs) Whale Acoustics Page of sounds and information
whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/sounds

East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Eskimo/Aleut
The killer whale, raven and wolf were considered sacred and could not be killed. The Yupik, like the Chukchi and Korak, believed that Raven had created the world.
pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/aleut.htm