7 ft. in length and weigh in at almost 400 lbs. upon birth. Adult Orcas eat 100 to 300 pounds of food a day. Wild Orcas eat salmon, herring and squid, also some Orcas eat seals, seal lions, walruses, sea otters, dolphins, birds and even whales. Orcas live in pods of up to 50 whales. Inside these pods are smaller units called subpods and inside the subpods, are smaller units named maternal groups.
Orcas stay with their subpods for all their lives.
Some females leave these groups to have their own babies but usually at some point rejoin their maternal group. Belongs to the Delphinidae family, it is the largest member of the dolphins. This is where the killer whale completely leaps out of the water and lands flat on the water on his back or side and splashes everything around him. He uses this to stun his prey. An interesting display of slapping the tail flukes on the surface of the water.