The accompanying images, captured by researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger, show a male orca using his flukes to fling a harbor seal an astonishing 70 feet high. “It’s still the most astounding ...
An orca has caused a stir appearing off a well ... be identified by a notch on his dorsal fin and a missing chunk on his fluke, or tail fin. He was photographed off Chanonry Point, near Fortrose ...
which means the calf was swimming right behind the pectoral fin of the orca," she said. "The echelon position allows a calf to make fewer tail fluke movements than when swimming on its own and ...