And this is how the Indigenous Native People came up with the narrative for the "Orca, the Sun Bringer" story.

🐬Spyhopping is when cetaceans and sharks "tread water" with their pectoral flippers at or above the surface of the water to see and hear better, usually in the search of prey🦭

Breaching (& the subsequent splash-down) is one way they rid themselves of external parasites.

That's not an orca!

Looks more like a bird rising from the waves.

Wow, doesn't look like a photo, more a painting

Like a knife through butter.

🦈Da-dun, da-dun, da-dun da-dun da-dun🦈

Orange you glad that they included this gorgeous picture?

Did you know that a happy, healthy orca has an firm, erect dorsal fin and an injured or depressed (read captive) on has a soggy, droopy one? Especially the males. (Seriously folks, I'm not being creepy, it's a real thing.)

🐋And that's the only kind of "whale tail" that I like to see🐳

Love it! Beautiful tail!

All right class turn to page 53, today we are going to read about birds and flying. Settle down Toby, we are NOT flying today!

🦆This one looks like a duck about to take flight🕊

The female orca is about 25 ft/7½m long, 8,000 lbs/3629kg and live up to 90 years. She's pregnant for 15-18 months. African elephants have the longest gestation at 22 months.

Beautiful HEALTHY UPRIGHT fins!!

This one also shows the difference between males' dorsal fins (the taller, straighter two) and the females' (smaller, "hooked backwards" shaped two).

Orcas are called bulls, cows and calves, just like cattle. Males and females are sexually dimorphic, i.e. look different from each other.

Here you can see the difference between male/female dorsal fins...male in foreground and two females in the background.

🎼🎶We All Live in a Yellow Submarine🎵🎶

The once predictable pattern of orca migration has apparently degenerated into desperately following food sources. Global warming strikes again😿

Looks like Steve Martin's "arrow through the head" gag 😹

PSA: It's better not to frequent the "SeaWorld" type shows that treat these amazing animals so horribly in pursuit of the almighty dollar. ⚠️🥺You don't even want to read about Shamu(s), it's heartbreaking 😿⚠️ It's better to find a "live watch" app or a responsible whale-watching tour.

Male Orcas are 30 feet/9m and up to 16 tons/14515kg and live up to 60 years. And don't put up with no Bull.

Sailing into the sunset. Or sailing away from the sunrise. What am I a traffic cop?

Whale, whale, whale, look what the tides brought in... it's a partycrasher! Who let that humpback into the orca party? They're not a very good ORCAniser.

🐳There she blew!🐳

Total travel poster potential (say that 5 times fast😹)