Help to celebrate ORCA by visiting these resources. Please let us know if you have others that you believe should be listed here.
Activities (for adults, youth and kids).
Scientific publications about orca (via a Scholar Google search for “Orcinus orca“). If you haven’t yet used ‘Scholar’ and you love science and facts, this is going to open a whole new world for you. Think of it as the internet for scientists. It will also suggest other searches (such as ‘killer whale’). Many are for free and will be listed as links to the right of the name of the study.
Videos
Check this short video showing some playful and curious orca. Filmed with GoPro camera. Also available online here.
Salish Sea Wild video episode on studying Resident Orca, with Dr Joe Gaydos and SeaDoc Society.
A short video (19 minutes) with the Founder of World Orca Day, Dr Ingrid N. Visser – filmed with GoPro. Includes an orca rescue.
Documentaries
Call of the Killer Whale, from the Ocean Adventures Series of Jean-Michel Cousteau
The Woman Who Swims with Killer Whales, from Natural World Series of BBC.
Blackfish, a documentary film, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, that tells the story of Tilikum.