5 Ways Orcas Have Earned the Nickname “Killer Whale”

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Orcas are some of the most effective predators in the ocean, and each population of them has entirely different prey preferences and hunting techniques, more than earning their nickname “killer whale!” Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100463 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997274/ https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/02/01/when-ice-melts-tipping-the-scales-in-the-predatorprey-arms-race-in-antarctica/ https://www.orcaresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Visser-et-al-2008-Antarctic-killer-whales-use-waves.pdf https://www.orcaresearch.org/w

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