SciShow: 5 Ways Orcas Have Earned the Nickname “Killer Whale”

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Content of the Lesson: Orcas are some of the most effective predators in the ocean, and each population of them has entirely different prey preferences and hunting techniques, more than earning their nickname “killer whale!” Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100463 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997274/ https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/02/01/when-ice-melts-tipping-the-scales-in-the-predatorprey-arms-race-in-antarctica/ https://www.orcaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Visser-et-al-2008-Antarctic-killer-whales-use-waves.pdf https://www.orcaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Visser-2005-thresher-hammerhead-orca.pdf https://www.orcaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Visser-et-al-2000-orca-eating-mako-shark.pdf https://phys.org/news/2010-03-smart-killer-whales-orcas-2nd-biggest.html#:~:text=Killer%20whales%2C%20or%20orcas%2C%20have,watery%2C%20three%2Ddimensional%20environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2007.380 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13420-017-0291-0 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2531 http://www.orcaaware.org/orca-news/new-zealand-orca-karate-chop-sharks http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150729-humpbacks-gatecrash-orcas-feast https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/meet-the-different-types-of-orcas/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238030078_Surface_and_underwater_observations_of_cooperatively_feeding_killer_whales_in_northern_Norway https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=126458&cl=94493&article=29066&tid=5122 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5281646/ https://daily.jstor.org/how-killer-whales-kill/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310332/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238025200_Intentional_stranding_apprenticeship_and_social_play_in_killer_whales_Orcinus_orca https://www.jstor.org/stable/1380981 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228727759_South_American_Sea_Lions_Otaria_flavescens_Avoid_Killer_Whale_Orcinus_orca_Predation https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/facts-about-orcas/ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orca_internal_anatomy.svg


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