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Hope and Heisenberg by Spearfisher

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References:
[1] https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/facts-about-orcas/
[2] https://phys.org/news/2017-05-orcas-prey-great-white-sharks.html
[3] https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the-first-whale-pakicetus
[4] https://www.whaleresearch.com/about-orcas#:~:text=Male%20orcas%20usually%20grow%20to,(2%2D3%20m).
[5] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/understanding-orca-culture-12494696/
[6] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/sound-strategy-hunting-southern-residents-part-2#:~:text=The%20whales%20hunt%20with%20echolocation,bounce%20back%20to%20the%20whale.
[7] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17348498/
[8] http://courses.washington.edu/fish538/resources/Au%20et%20al%202010%20salmon.pdf
[9]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47335-w
[10] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientists-plan-to-use-ai-to-try-to-decode-the-language-of-whales
[11] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280780256_Acoustic_behaviour_of_resident_killer_whales_Orcinus_orca_off_Vancouver_Island_British_Columbia
[12] https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/831/1.0096602/1
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[14] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230729878_Development_of_intentional_stranding_hunting_techniques_in_killer_whale_Orcinus_orca_calves_at_Crozet_Archipelago
[15] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11693
[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence
[17] https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
[18] https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.a.20075
[19] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635701001346?np=y