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The largest recorded Orca
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  *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:Huge specimen unfortunately in the photo we cannot see the complete specimen  *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:6 m and 7500 kg, captured in Cabo Higuer, Hondarribia, Spain, 1912  *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:6 m and 4000 kg, Santander, Spain, 1955   *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:Famous specimen Old Tom body washed up on the shore in 1930  *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:Incredible photo of what appears to be a huge specimen measuring 8 meters or more in length alongside a brave swimmer?
I would like to announce that while some journals chose to pass on my manuscript (though not without some positive reception and strong recommendation by some of the reviewers), I will be imminently releasing my manuscript as a preprint within the next week or so.
 *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:Huge Orca specimen close to one man in the small boat
Okay, my preprint is finally out. It's a review on not just the size variation for the killer whale, but also two large beaked whales and the sperm whale.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/...5.610699v1 In my deep search of the literature, I've found that the largest verified weight for a killer whale was a piecemeal weighing of 9,950 kg taken from an 8.6 m male from the Antarctic that I mentioned years earlier. This was indeed among the literature published by Sleptsov,1965 (I had to visit a reference library to find this source). I've also ran statistical analyses on the weight relationships between resident killer whales, transients, and the Icelandic herring-feeding population and found that there was a statistically significant difference in the weight relationships, with the transients being notably heavier than the residents. The weight formula for transients is more similar to Type A killer whales in this regard. If the Soviet weight relationship for predominantly mammal-eating (likely Type A) killer whales from the Southern Hemisphere is used, the maximum size for a mammal-eating male (9.5 m from Nishiwaki and Handa, 1958), would weight 13.6 metric tons. In my review, there's some more info on growth parameters for killer whales and a lot of info on the beaked and sperm whales.  (09-08-2024, 01:39 PM)callmejoe9 Wrote: @GrizzlyClaws @GuateGojira Here is an interesting take on the possible different species of orca.  *This image is copyright of its original author Strong candidate for the size record - 7.6 to 9.1 m and 16000 pounds specimen called Old Tom is a solitary adult Northwest Atlantic killer whale. He has been sighted off the coast of northern New England and iEastern Canada, https://killerwhales.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Thom  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Quote:Possible Record - |
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