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orcas breach in many different ways. breaching is defined as a leap into the air and then landing on the back, stomach, or side(in other words anything but head first) causing a tremendous splash. the reason why orcas breach is unknown but we have some ideas. sometimes they breach because of excitement, to stun their prey, during play, and to show who is the dominate animal. in captivity orcas are seen doing this on command. |
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this behavior is sometimes considered the same as porpoising but, bowing usually happens with little or no speed. when bowing the orca will rise streight out of the water with almost all of their body exposed except their tail stock and/or flukes. sometimes the entire body does leave the water with only a very small distance covered from the "lift off" to the "landing". once in a while orcas will bow out of the water and land in the exact same place it left. |
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by definition porpoising is traveling at a high rate if speed on the surface of the water and making long low leaps to cover long distances. orcas usually do this the same way their smaller dolphin cousins do. in the wild they can be seen doing this when they are hunting fast moving prey. when they come up to breath huge spreys of water raise up from their dorsal fins and from their sides. inorder for an orca to porpoise comepletely out of the water they have to be swimming up to speeds as high as 22 miles per hour, not to too fast for an orca which at an average can swim up to speeds of 35-45 miles per hour ( thats as fast a race horse). |
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spyhopping is an often seen behavior. this is when the animal raises its head out of the water to look at its surroundings. sometimes over half of its body will come put of the water and then just sink back into the water or slowly fall back into the water with little or no splash. other times they will slowly rotate 360 degrees looking at the world around them. |
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