The largest recorded Orca

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Hello everyone
Those documents provide very useful informations on large specimens of killer whales
http://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/h...9_N_06.pdf
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0026738 see table S5
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/CR/1984/8470.PDF see page 126
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SW...SC-364.PDF see page 16
http://www.marinemammal.org/wp-content/p...dymass.pdf

 
To my knowledge, the Bigg and Wolman equation ( https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2...059944.pdf ) is the only one to predict body mass based on TL. For example, the largest animal mentioned (32 feet=9.75m) would weigh more than 10 metric tons


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