This is a helpful guide to the terms used in Blackfish. From the meanings of the characters' names to the Orca types and meanings of the whistle signals and trainer gestures. This book has it all.
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There are three different types of Orcas; Resident, Transient, and Offshore.
Note: These types of Orcas cannot cross-breed in real life, but for the purpose of this story, they can.
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Resident type: Resident whales spend about 60% to 65% of daylight hours foraging for fishes. Salmon make up 96% of their diet; Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the preferred species. Their diet is highly specialized and this dependence may be a limiting factor for this population. To a much lesser degree, residents are also known to eat one species of squid (Gonatopsis borealis) and 22 other species of fish including rockfish (Sebastes spp.), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi). There is no evidence of resident killer whales eating marine mammals.
Resident Orcas: Talulah, Dylan, Galal
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Transient type: Transient whales spend about 90% of daylight hours foraging. They primarily eat marine mammals including seals, sea lions, walruses, baleen whales, other toothed whales, and occasionally sea otters and penguins. They also tend to be more aggressive than the other two types.
Transient Orcas: Nerida, Julep, Dalice, Morrigan
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Offshore type: The diet of offshore killer whales in the northeastern Pacific include fishes such as salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), sculpin (Cottus spp.), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), and Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus).
