The killer whale ( Orcinus orca ), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish or grampus, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family.

The organisation also develops regional protection agreements and conventions and closely cooperates with the Killer Whale research station OrcaLab in British Columbia, Canada.

In the North Pacific, their common predators are the sea lion ( Eumetopias jubatus ), the killer whale ( Orcinus orca ), and the salmon shark ( Lamna ditropis ).

Although it had been described by John Gray in 1874, the pygmy killer whale, until the early 1950s, was known only from two skulls kept at the British Museum.

I'm the killer.

Sami's killer was caught.

Poverty is a killer.

Whale watching has grown quite rapidly.

Fadil was cold hearted killer.

The killer was never found.

Despite the decision to resume commercial whale hunting in 2006, the tourism sector is expanding, especially in ecotourism and whale watching.

I never saw so big a whale.

Winning the Fight Against Killer Diseases

The London Whale is a case in point.

Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet

Sami's killer cleaned up the shell casings.

then the whale swallowed him down , and he blameworthy .

So the whale swallowed him , for he was blameworthy ,

then the whale swallowed him down , and he blameworthy .

So the whale swallowed him , for he was blameworthy ,

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda ) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean.

Whoa, dude. Check out those killer equations. Sweet.

Kary Mullis' next gen cure for killer infections

Niall Ferguson The 6 killer apps of prosperity

Jim Fallon Exploring the mind of a killer

HONG KONG Killer typhoons in Taiwan and China.

Vertebrates Mammals (Mammalia) The blue whale is the largest mammal.

She told us, I believe HIV isn t the only killer.

The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London.

Whale watching has become an important part of Iceland's economy since 1997.

Two other major killer diseases, malaria and TB, were also resurgent.

To stop this killer we must attain the Millennium Development Goals.

And people were putting up signs in the real world about this whale.

Until late 2012, it was known as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

And then imagine being Bruce Mate's team from OSU, getting up close to a blue whale and fixing a tag on the blue whale that stays, an engineering challenge we've yet to really overcome.

False.

In Africa where it is a major killer it is totally ignored.

So this is the infamous Caulerpa taxifolia, the so called killer algae.

One EU central banker described this to me as the killer chart.

Malaria is a killer disease transmitted by a specific species of mosquitoes.

Malaria remains the biggest killer of children under age five in Africa.

Last year s London Whale trading losses at JPMorgan Chase are a case in point.

Except for the sperm whale, most toothed whales are smaller than the baleen whales.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

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