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Orca - How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator (Hardcover)
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Orca - How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator (Hardcover)
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Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in
history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in
2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet
no historical account has explored how we came to care about killer
whales in the first place. In Orca, Jason 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 a
Seattle entrepreneur named Ted Griffin became the first person to
swim and perform with a captive killer whale. The show was a hit,
and he began capturing and selling others, including Sea World's
first "Shamu." Over the following decade, live display transformed
popular and scientific 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. So when Sea World
attempted to catch its own killer whales, Northwesterners would
fight for the freedom of a marine predator that had become a
regional icon. With access to previously unavailable documents and
interviews, Colby offers the definitive history of how the feared
and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca" and what that means
for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.
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