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Unusual killer whales wandering around the waters of South America in currently studying an international group of scientists. home biologists’ task: to determine whether this is a new species of killer whale predators or just some kind of mutation?
Note that fishermen have long described unusual predatory whales, which differ from the usual killer whales primarily in their huge sizes. In 1955, seventeen such mysterious marine animals washed ashore in New Zealand. Biologists then determined that besides unusual sizes, these killer whales had more a rounded head, an unusually tiny white trim around eye and rather narrow dorsal fins.
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Then the researchers suggested that these are just animals with genetic mutation. However, in 2005 unusual killer whales were seen off the coast of South America, and scientists then determined that these marine predators differ not only in size and appearance, but even with “gastronomic” preferences: they eat fish, not seals like ordinary killer whales.
Biologists are currently studying unusual killer whales offshore. Chile, and at this time in the laboratory of the US National Office for tests are being carried out to the ocean to determine if call these large predators of the seas a new species of the killer whale genus.
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