The largest recorded Orca

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Thank you for your comment Chaos, in fact, we can't rule out the posibility that wild orcas do weight more than captive one. For example, the wild orca "Old Tom" weighed more than a similar sized captive orca like Tilikum (in 2005). However, there is the problem about if the weight of Old Tom was real or estimated, like that of Orky.

A profesional book on Cetaceans quote a maximum weight of 10,500 kg for the largest orca (I am going to put the entire table in a next post), however, I found somewhat dificult to believe in that figure, specially when Nowak (1999) estate a maximum of 9 tons and quote a source.

I think that if we make a deeper investigation we will found more data that will help us to found the asnwer to GrizzlyClaws question. To be sincere, I like this topic too, becuase the orca is my second favorite animal. [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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