australianorca:arlluk: Check out this orca off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. If I didn’t
australianorca:arlluk: Check out this orca off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. If I didn’t know any better, I’d wager it’s a type D, but there’s no records of them in Australia… Photo by Esther McDonald. Ningaloo Reef is quite near Exmouth, which is where a lot of Type A orcas frequent. Though it is quite warm up that way so it’s kind of interesting that a Type D would have ventured that far north. Australia is in a strange position for orca at the moment as for a long while we had virtually no orca as all of their food source (usually humpback calves) were obliterated by whaling. But now as the humpback population is starting to soar again, the orca are returning. So we really don’t know fully what kind of population we have! As for the Type D being around Australia, Sea Shepherd filmed a pod of Type D further south in the Indian Ocean near Crozet, so that places them between roughly there and New Zealand in the Indian and Pacific oceans. So it’s plausible but certainly not common! -- source link