The largest recorded Orca

[callmejoe9]

(04-18-2022, 09:14 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(04-18-2022, 04:56 AM)callmejoe9 Wrote: Does anyone have the Handbook of Marine Mammal's volume 6, Second book of Dolphins and Porpoises @OrcaDaBest  posted a chart from the killer whale chapter and I know that source also cited the 5568kg male and 3810kg female. I wanted to see if there's any mentioning of where these whales were from as I wanted to note the region and potentially their ecotype

I only found it in Google books, but do not show all the pages. This is the relevant part and the complete table on the weights quoted, page 286-288-289 are just pictures, do not have any data:

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I could not see the entire chapter, but these are the relevant pages. Sadly it do not say if the specimens are wild or captive, but this is all what I could found. Page 293 and after it are not available, not in my side at least.

Thank you so very much! If they got weights this precise, I am willing to be these were likely captive or wild live-captured specimens, assuming these figures weren't pulled from one of Sleptsov's papers. In all likeliehood, I am going to leave these individuals unlabeled for their region. They're likely ENP or North Atlantic. I have some more data than I did last time. Almost done, just pulling some more data from a couple of more potential sources. As for the table, most of those museum labels are for West-coast, North American institutions, so I think it's reasonable to conclude that those weights belong to ENP specimens. Some of these weights, such as the 4554kg male, were in Bigg and Wolman's study and also cited in other literature. Reply