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Sara
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Fun fact: the words “orca” and “orc” share the same root Latin origin. Orca orcinus’ name roughly translates to “demon from hell” 😆 😆
— Feb 06, 2026 10:34AM
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Sara
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Wow learned 3 cool things in 5 pages:
1. Orca culture revolves around food bc they have less blubber
2. “Orcas’ behavior is almost totally governed by cultural conditions and hardly at all by what we were taught in school about instincts and stimulus response and animal behavior in general”
3. No signs of internal strife in orca cultures - No signs of discipline or jousting for position within the hierarchies!
— Feb 02, 2026 11:06AM
1. Orca culture revolves around food bc they have less blubber
2. “Orcas’ behavior is almost totally governed by cultural conditions and hardly at all by what we were taught in school about instincts and stimulus response and animal behavior in general”
3. No signs of internal strife in orca cultures - No signs of discipline or jousting for position within the hierarchies!
Sara
is on page 88 of 320
“Home, for these whales, is not a place. Their home is each other.” 😭
— Jan 17, 2026 02:38PM
Sara
is on page 55 of 320
I picked this up hoping to learn Orca 101 and to find some resources for the topics I wanted to dig deeper on. That’s already majorly paid off!! Maybe I should be an odondocete neuroscientist in my next life 😆
— Jan 15, 2026 07:03PM
