绪论 虎鲸类型和种群(第3/8 页)

d in 2008，“The taxonomy of this genus is clearly in need of review， and it is likely that O. orca will be split into a number of different species or at least subspecies over the next few years.“ Although large variation in the ecological distinctiveness of different orca groups plicate simple differentiation into types. Mammal-eating orcas in different regions were long thought likely to be closely related， but genetic testing has refuted this hypothesis.

Northern waters

North Pacific

Research off the west coast of Canada and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s identified the following three types:

Resident (fish-eating) orcas: The curved dorsal fins are typical of resident females.

Resident: These are the most monly sighted of the three populations in the coastal waters of the northeast Pacific. Residents' diets consist primarily of fish and sometimes squid， and they live in plex and cohesive family groups called pods. F

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