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Here’s an animal lover’s one-stop source for in-depth information on orcas, or killer whales! What do they eat? How do they behave? Are they at risk? This book also includes loads of fun and fascinating facts about killer whales, as well as maps, charts, and wonderful photographs of these clever creatures.
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Claire Throp
Claire Throp has worked in publishing for over 20 years. She has written children's nonfiction books on a range of subjects, including sport, history, and wildlife.
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Orcas - Claire Throp
Contents
What Are Sea Mammals?
What Are Orcas?
How Are Orcas Classified?
Where Do Orcas Live?
What Adaptations Help Orcas Survive?
What Do Orcas Eat?
What Is an Orca’s Life Cycle?
How Do Orcas Behave?
How Intelligent Are Orcas?
What Threats Do Orcas Face?
How Can People Help Orcas?
What Does the Future Hold for Orcas?
Species Profile
Glossary
Find Out More
Index
Some words are shown in bold, like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.
What Are Sea Mammals?
What’s that huge, dark shape moving through the water? Suddenly, an orca leaps out of the sea, twists around, and splashes back into the water.
An orca, or killer whale, might look like a large fish, but it is a sea mammal. Mammals have a backbone, fur or hair on their bodies, and use lungs to breathe. They give birth to live young, and mothers feed their babies milk. Does this description sound familiar? It should—humans are also mammals.
Sea mammals live and feed in the sea. There are four groups: whales and dolphins; seals, sea lions, and walruses; manatees and dugongs; and sea otters and polar bears. They are all excellent swimmers and divers. They are also known as marine mammals. Marine means of the sea.
These sea lions watch carefully as orcas swim in the shallow water. Orcas are predators that hunt sea lions.
Meet the sea mammals
There are around 130 different types, or species, of sea mammal. They have adapted in different ways to live in the sea:
Cetaceans
Whales and dolphins are cetaceans. There are about 90 species of cetaceans, divided into two groups: toothed cetaceans,
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