Common Name: Orca / Killer Whale
 Scientific Name: Orcinus orca
 Report and Illustration By: David

The Orca, or killer whale is a mammal with no fur. The Orca is black with white patches. It is approximately twenty-seven through thirty-three feet long. It weighs around eight thousand to twelve thousand pounds. The male Orca is relatively larger than the female.

The Orca is a carnivorous mammal. The Orca's diet consists of fish, squids, sharks, birds, seals, sea turtles, octopi, and occasionally other whales. As you can see the Orca is strictly carnivorous, it normally feeds on relatively large prey.

Killer whales live in every ocean and sea and it obviously lives only in water.

   

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