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Since
the release of the documentary
Blackfishin 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.
Drawing on interviews, official records,
private archives, and his own family
history, Jason M. Colby tells the
exhilarating and often heartbreaking
story of how people came to love the
ocean's greatest predator. Historically
reviled as dangerous pests, killer
whales were dying by the hundreds, even
thousands, by the 1950s--the victims of
whalers, fishermen, and even the US
military. In the Pacific Northwest,
fishermen shot them, scientists
harpooned them, and the Canadian
government mounted a machine gun to
eliminate them. But that all changed in
1965, when Seattle entrepreneur Ted
Griffin became the first person to swim
and perform with a captive killer whale.
The show proved wildly popular, and he
began capturing and selling others,
including Sea World's first Shamu.
Over the following decade, live display
transformed views ofOrcinus orca. The
public embraced killer whales as
charismatic and friendly, while
scientists enjoyed their first access to
live orcas. In the Pacific Northwest,
these captive encounters reshaped
regional values and helped drive
environmental activism, including
Greenpeace's anti-whaling campaigns. Yet
even as Northwesterners taught the world
to love whales, they came to oppose
their captivity and to fight for the
freedom of a marine predator that had
become a regional icon.
Orcais the definitive history of how the
feared and despised "killer" became the
beloved "orca"--and what that has meant
for our relationship with the ocean and
its creatures...
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