World Orca Day - July 14

Updated July 11, 2025
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Listening to whales : what the orcas have taught us
Morton, Alexandra
Paper Book
A "warm, energetic memoir" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and an impassioned study of the profound connection between humans and whales, from an award-winning marine researcher " Morton's descriptions of the whales' lives and their haunting underwater...
Orcas everywhere : the mystery and history of killer whales
Leiren-Young, Mark
Paper Book
Orcas are found in every ocean on the planet, but can they survive their relationship with humans? Orcas Everywherelooks at how humans around the world (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike) related to orcas in the past, how we relate to them now and what we can do to keep cetacean...
Orca : how we came to know and love the ocean's greatest predator
Colby, Jason M.
Paper Book
Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place....
Beneath the surface : killer whales, SeaWorld, and the truth beyond Blackfish
Hargrove, John (Animal trainer)
Paper Book
*Now aNew York Times Best Seller* Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience...
Orca : shared waters, shared home
Mapes, Lynda
Paper Book
2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Nature and the Environment Orca whale J35, also known as "Tahlequah," gave birth in July of 2018 in the waters off British Columbia, but her calf died soon after, leading its mother to carry her for 17 days across 1000 miles before...
Orca rescue! : the true story of an orphaned orca named Springer
Sandstrom, Donna
Paper Book
In 2002, a young orca was spotted alone in Puget Sound near Seattle - lost, starving and 300 miles away from her home waters in Canada. Donna Sandstrom, an orca enthusiast in Seattle, eagerly joined the volunteer effort to help. Here she tells the riveting story, from identifying the orca as a...
A whale of the wild
Parry, Rosanne
Paper Book
"A spellbinding, heart-stopping adventure." --Booklist (starred review) "A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure." --New York Times Book Review In the stand-alone companion to the New York Times-bestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca...
Operation orca
Roy, Ron
Paper Book

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