On a Sunday afternoon in March 1976, SeaWorld contractors herded a family of orcas into Budd Inlet at the southern tip of ...

What is it like kayaking where killer whales swim? If you paddle in the Puget Sound in Washington, you may find yourself face ...

In captivity, whales breach the surface more ... some experts think speed could also be a factor. In the wild, killer whales swim on average 3 to 4 mph and can sprint at speeds up to 34 mph.

Morgan, a captive orca, has given birth for the second time and now face a lifetime in a aquatic tank, performing for ...

But the whales’ physical and emotional well-being, he grew to believe, was incompatible with captivity ... as close as you can get to a killer whale in dog form.

Both turned out to be wrong, and it was captivity that revealed the truth. Until the 1960s, research on cetaceans remained extremely limited. Most marine mammalogists worked in connection with ...

Dolphins and other cetaceans suffer stress and anxiety when kept in captivity, particularly when there is no enrichment or when they are housed with incompatible animals. Medications are routinely ...

and false killer whales. Specifically, it would prohibit the breeding, wild capture, and import and export of these species for the purpose of public display. The bill would not prohibit the continued ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The killer whale Tokitae, also known as Lolita, may finally be released after more than 50 years in captivity in the world's smallest orca enclosure. Billionaire ...

The study highlights that about 20% of the genetic makeup of southwestern Australian killer whales can be traced back to Antarctic ancestors, with gene flow occurring both historically and ...