For generations, killer whales and First Nations hunted whales together. Now we suspect the orca group has gone extinct
- Written by: Isabella Reeves, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
Whalers and Old Tom on the hunt Charles Eden Wellings/WIkimedia Commons, CC BY-SAFor generations, the Thaua people worked with killer whales to hunt large whales in the water of Twofold Bay, on the southern coast of New South Wales. Killer whales – commonly known as orcas – would herd their giant prey into shallower waters where...
