103-Year-Old Orca Spotted Off Canadian Coast

[Halb]

An old whale.
Probably smart as a tack. I would hazard a guess that the smarter ones once past a certain age, probably live to be a very old age. Like stone age humans.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/103-y...

[Hooli]

Keep going Granny

[tapkaJohnD]

Oh, come on! How do they know?
The linked-to page says that the group of orcas this one lives in has been studied "regularly since the 1970s". So a minimum of 60, max - who knows?
JOhn

[RB Will]

Saw that one on a whale watching trip from Vancouver in 2012. Hi Granny

[Shaolin]

tapkaJohnD said:

Oh, come on! How do they know?
The linked-to page says that the group of orcas this one lives in has been studied "regularly since the 1970s". So a minimum of 60, max - who knows?

That's what I thought.

Here's a whale that really was over 100, though was killed before they found out http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19195624/?GT1=10056#.U4C...

[Halb]

Shaolin said:

Here's a whale that really was over 100, though was killed before they found out http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19195624/?GT1=10056#.U4C...

My name is Whale McLoud of the clan McWhale, and I cannot die....save for then shot by explosive harpoons.

[MarvGTI]

Halb said:

My name is Whale McLoud of the clan McWhale, and I cannot die....save for then shot by explosive harpoons.

There can be only one!