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First documented movement of wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) between Iceland and Norway [Note]

Mrusczok, Marie‐Thérèse; Luck, Emma; Cheeseman, Ted; Coleman, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0162-8356; Cotín, Javier; Peacock, Andrew; Stefansson, Robert A.; von Schmalensee, Menja. 2025 First documented movement of wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) between Iceland and Norway [Note]. Marine Mammal Science, 41 (2), e13187. 7, pp. 10.1111/mms.13187

Abstract
Kller whales (Orcinus orca, Linnaeus 1758) are wide-ranging throughout the world's oceans (Forney & Wade, 2006)and can travel over large distances (Dahlheim et al., 2008; Durban & Pitman, 2012). In the North Atlantic, long-distance movements of killer whales have been recorded from the eastern Canadian Arctic to near the Azores(Matthews et al., 2011), from Scotland to Norway (Eve Jourdain, personal communication, November 2022), repeat-edly between Iceland and Scotland (Mrusczok & Scullion, 2019; Samarra & Foote, 2015), as well as between Iceland,Scotland, and the Faroe Islands (Scullion et al., 2021; Andrew Scullion, personal communication, November 2022).The longest one-way distance recorded for killer whales was documented with the movement of a male from Icelandvia Spain and Italy to Lebanon and Israel traveling over 8,000 km (Mrusczok, Violi, et al., 2022; Mrusczok, vonSchmalensee, et al., 2022) [...]
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