[["A killer whale, also known as an orca, is usually viewed by people as a whale, but, technically, they are classified as the largest of the oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae. Adult male orcas are 20 to 26 feet long, while females are smaller.", 119.0], ["No. Orcas are actually members of the marine dolphin family Delphinidae. Today, if a dolphin reaches a size of more than 30 feet long, it may be referred to by some as a whale, but the rules of taxonomy still classify the orca as a dolphin", 25.0], ["The killer whale is not a whale at all but part of the Oceanic dolphins or Delphinidae family. ", 8.0], ["No, an orca is not a whale in the sense that it\u2019s your typical baleen whale like blue and humpback whales but it\u2019s a large member of the dolphin family. Which paradoxically is classified under the \u201ctoothed whale\u201d family. So technically, like all dolphins, you can consider them a type of whale. ", 3.0]]
is a killer whale a whale
animals