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Orca - How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator (Paperback)
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Orca - How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator (Paperback)
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List price R630
Loot Price R579
Discovery Miles 5 790
You Save R51 (8%)
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Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions
around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most
profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until
now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about
killer whales in the first place. Drawing on interviews, official
records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M.
Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how
people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically
reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the
hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s-the victims of whalers,
fishermen, and even the US military. In the Pacific Northwest,
fishermen shot them, scientists harpooned them, and the Canadian
government mounted a machine gun to eliminate them. But that all
changed in 1965, when Seattle entrepreneur Ted Griffin became the
first person to swim and perform with a captive killer whale. The
show proved wildly popular, and he began capturing and selling
others, including Sea World's first Shamu. Over the following
decade, live display transformed views of Orcinus orca. The public
embraced killer whales as charismatic and friendly, while
scientists enjoyed their first access to live orcas. In the Pacific
Northwest, these captive encounters reshaped regional values and
helped drive environmental activism, including Greenpeace's
anti-whaling campaigns. Yet even as Northwesterners taught the
world to love whales, they came to oppose their captivity and to
fight for the freedom of a marine predator that had become a
regional icon. This is the definitive history of how the feared and
despised "killer" became the beloved "orca"-and what that has meant
for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.
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