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Subject:
Killer whales
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: jard1-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
06 Aug 2006 14:54 PDT
Expires: 10 Aug 2006 14:33 PDT Question ID: 753198 |
I know that a polar bear is considered a "class 1" animal due to the research done on my last question. My new question is why is a killer whale or a dolphin not listed in the classes? Killer whales are dangerous animals that could potentially injure or kill someone. Would they be listed as dangerous animals under another heading because they are marine mammals? |
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Re: Killer whales
From: keystroke-ga on 06 Aug 2006 17:07 PDT |
The easy answer is that killer whales are NOT dangerous: ">Are Killer Whales dangerous? > THAT depends on whether or not you are a gray whale. Actually, there are two known 'types' of killer whales in the world. One type is known as the 'resident' killer whales - they live in very tightly-knit groups called pods and have small, local homeranges. This type is only dangerous to fish, since that is what they eat, almost exclusively. The other type is the 'transient' killer whales - now these are the killer whales that will eat other marine mammals, such as gray whales, dolphins, and seals. These whales are less known than the resident type, but we believe they live in family groups that travel through much larger homeranges. These whales have even been seen to tackle a great white shark. BUT, despite that, there has never been a documented case of a killer whale attacking a human in the wild. So, I would have to say that no, killer whales are not dangerous to us." I doubt that anyone has been attacked by a dolphin, either. Polar bears are an entirely different story-- they're the most dangerous kind of bears. |
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Re: Killer whales
From: keystroke-ga on 06 Aug 2006 17:07 PDT |
The above is taken from: http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask98/0275.html |
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Re: Killer whales
From: myoarin-ga on 06 Aug 2006 17:41 PDT |
The classification system is not so much to list potentially dangerous animals per se, but to define under what conditions they must be kept by persons owning, exhibiting or selling them. I suppose that the state of Florida and others don't anticipate this occurring. |
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