Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 264 of Just the Zoo of Us.

In this week's episode, we are joined by a passionate and insightful science communicator

for a review of the iconic wolves of the sea.

We discuss whale taxonomy, menopause in motherhood, hunting strategies, using fluid dynamics, and straight up lying.

What's up with the whole yacht thing?

The Dead Fish fashion trend that's taking the marine world by storm and so much more.

Just the Zoo of Us presents Orcas with Fred, the Orca Man.

Music Red, the Orca Man. Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast. I'm so

excited this week to be bringing you all a new friend that I'm so excited to talk to. This is Fred

the Orca Man. Hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here. I'm so happy to talk to you. Real

quick, what are your pronouns? Uh, he, him. Thank you so much, Fred. Before we talk about our amazing animal for this week, I would like to talk about you a little

bit.

What does your work look like alongside these incredible animals?

It's a great question.

And so it's kind of twofold.

So my work alongside of the animals is largely trying to learn as much as I can for the

research that's currently happening.

So a lot of what I'm doing is kind of diving into the global states of killer whales, so to

speak. So that's conservation, research, different things happening with captivity that are going on

with regard to either policy or transfers and things like that. And then the other half is trying

to get people more engaged with

them in their local areas. So a lot of that comes to me going out myself and trying to find out

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