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Orcas: Apex Predators Or Marine Park Stars?

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Killer Whales - A History of Orcas

In 19 64, the vancouver aquarium wanted to make a scale model of a young killer whale. They harpooned it, but the whale didn't die and was put on display for the public. The fact that it didn't attack humans, as people expected, was a big moment. That opened the door for this era of killewale captivity,. where a lot more whales were taken for the wild for that purpose.

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