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What Are Killer Whales?
The killer whale inhabit all the oceans but their prefers to live in the cooler waters like The North Pacific or the North Atlantic in the North Atlantic the whales follow the movement of herring but when the herring began its wintering the killer whales also changed their movements where they move towards. In the North Pacific the movements of resident pods are the same of the salmon because for they are his food.

The Antarctic Killer whales are divided in Types so we talk about two types the Type A the killer whale do the migration movement during the austral summer and the Type B undertake rapid migration from the Antarctic waters to subtropical waters. The Type A live offshore in ice-free water and the Type B killer whales inhabit inshore

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