Ocean animals

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index

• Family• Food• description

family

• Killer whale• are distributed throughout the oceans of the

world, but are most frequently found off Antarctica, Iceland, Norway and Pacific North America. Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: CetaceaSuborder: Odontoceti

Family: Delphinidae

Genus: OrcinusFitzinger, 1860[3]

Species: O. orca

food

• Fish-eating killer whales prey on around 30 species of fish, particularly salmon, herring, and tuna. In New Zealand, rays are killer whales' most frequent prey,[95] and they have also been observed hunting sharks (particularly makos, threshers and smooth hammerheads). Squid and sea turtles are also taken.[96]

• A group of killer whales has surfaced. Four dorsal fins are visible, three of which curve backward at the tip.

• Resident (fish-eating) killer whales: The curved dorsal fins are typical of resident females.

• While salmon are usually hunted by an individual or a small group of individuals, herring are often caught using carousel feeding; the killer whales force the herring into a tight ball by releasing bursts of bubbles or flashing their white undersides. They then slap the ball with their tail flukes, either stunning or killing up to 10–15 fish at a time. The herring are then eaten one at a time. Carousel feeding has only been documented in the Norwegian killer whale population and with some oceanic dolphin species

description

• the whale is a mammal animal• Outwardly his body combines black and white.

Males can grow up to 9.5 meters long and weigh 6.000 kg, while the females are 10% smaller.