feeding time (00:00:47)

To communicate and socialize, orcas raise their tails high and slap them down on the surface of the water. They also use a beautiful and complex language of clicks and whistles.

• grant: $125,000 - Center for Whale Research

  To develop, promote, and conduct benign studies of free-swimming Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for the purpose of conserving their populations and informing governments and the public of their ecosystem needs.

  topic: animals

  location: san juan islands