{"id":1415,"date":"2020-07-24T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:15:16","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2250\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent.png 2250w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-1024x148.png 1024w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-768x111.png 768w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-1536x222.png 1536w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-2048x296.png 2048w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-370x53.png 370w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-760x110.png 760w, https:\/\/orcaseverywhere.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/glossary-transparent-1320x191.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">albino<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a person or animal without pigment in their skin, hair and eyes<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">altruism<\/span><\/strong>\u2014selfless concern for others<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">anthropocentrism<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the belief that humans are the rock stars of all living things<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">anthropodenial<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a word invented by animal researcher Frans de Waal that means \u201ca blindness to the humanlike characteristics of other animals or the animal- like characteristics of ourselves.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">anthropology<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the study of human societies<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">anthropomorphizing<\/span><\/strong>\u2014thinking a god, animal or thing has emotions or experiences similar to ours<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">apex<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">predator<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a predator at the top of a food chain<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">baleen<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">Bigg\u2019s whales<\/span><\/strong>\u2014mammal-eating orcas in the Salish Sea named after Michael Bigg, the Canadian scientist who discovered that there are different types of orcas<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">biosonar<\/span><\/strong>\u2014sonar that\u2019s biological\u2014part of an animal\u2019s wiring\u2014and not technological (see echolocation)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">botanist<\/span><\/strong>\u2014someone who makes a scientific study of plants<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">breach<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a whale\u2019s leap out of the ocean and into the air<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">cetacean<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the Latin word for members of the whale family<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">collagen<\/span><\/strong>\u2014protein that holds a body together, like biological glue<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">commercial whaling<\/span><\/strong>\u2014catching and killing whales to sell their body parts<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">dialect<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a set of calls, or songs in the case of birds, that is unique to areas, populations or social groups. Some scientists prefer the term language.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">dorsal<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the fin on an orca\u2019s back; dorsal means \u201cback\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">echolocation<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the use of sound waves (or sonar) to locate, find or identify something by the way the sound echoes (or bounces) off the target<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">empirical data<\/span><\/strong>\u2014information acquired by observation or experimentation<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">food chain<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a series of living things that are linked to each other because each feeds on the next<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">geoglyph<\/span><\/strong>\u2014an image made of carefully arranged stones<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">gyres<\/span><\/strong>\u2014large systems of rotating ocean currents; now often used to refer to swirling islands of plastic waste in the ocean<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">industrial whaling<\/span><\/strong>\u2014catching and killing huge numbers of whales to sell their body parts<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">keratin<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a strong natural protein that forms hair, nails, hoofs, horns, feathers, etc.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">matriarchal<\/span><\/strong>\u2014led by a matriarch, which in orca society is the oldest female and leader of the pod or pods<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">melanin<\/span><\/strong>\u2014pigment that adds color to skin, hair and eyes<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">mirror self-recognition<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a test based on the theory that if an animal can recognize itself in the mirror, then it is \u201cself-aware\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">northern residents<\/span><\/strong>\u2014resident orcas who range from Alaska to BC<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">ocean acidification<\/span><\/strong>\u2014when ocean water turns acidic\u2014and poisonous\u2014due to chemicals and climate change<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">offshores<\/span><\/strong>\u2014orcas in the Pacific Ocean whose primary food is sleeper sharks<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">PCBS<\/span><\/strong>\u2014synthetic industrial chemicals toxic to orcas and pretty much everything else on the planet<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">petroglyph<\/span><\/strong>\u2014an image drawn or carved into stone<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">pod<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a whale community, so named because fishermen used to say whales stayed together \u201clike peas in a pod.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">rorqual<\/span><\/strong>\u2014any of the large baleen whales that have relatively small heads, short, broad plates of baleen, and deep furrows on the skin<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">saddle patch<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the distinct marking on the back of an orca<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">Salish Sea<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the waterways in the Pacific Ocean along the coast of southern British Columbia and northern Washington State<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">southern residents<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the famous fish-eating orcas who live primarily in the Salish Sea<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">sonar<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a method of detecting, locating and determining the speed or size of objects through the use of reflected sound waves<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">spindle neurons<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the cells in the brain that process emotions<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">sprouter<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a teenage male orca whose dorsal fin has suddenly grown or sprouted<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">spy-hopping<\/span><\/strong>\u2014whales or other marine mammals poking their heads out of the water to check out what\u2019s happening on the surface<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">superpod<\/span><\/strong>\u2014a large gathering of whales<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">taxonomy<\/span><\/strong>\u2014rules scientists use for categorizing living things<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">vocalizations<\/span><\/strong>\u2014the sounds an orca makes<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5696e;\">zooplankton<\/span><\/strong>\u2014super-tiny fish like krill that float rather than swim and are the fave food of 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