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The Killer Whale Who Changed the World [Audiobook]

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The Killer Whale Who Changed the World [Audiobook]

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World [Audiobook] by Mark Leiren-Young
English | June 13, 2017 | ASIN: B072MR1FB1 | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 27m | 176 MB
Narrator: Mark Leiren-Young

The 2017 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada award for "best general audience book" and was short-listed for the 2017 Hubert Evans Prize.

The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale - a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them.

Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll - as the whale became known - was an instant celebrity, drawing 20,000 visitors on the one and only day he was exhibited. He died within a few months, but his famous gentleness sparked a worldwide crusade that transformed how people understood and appreciated orcas. Because of Moby Doll, we stopped fearing "killers" and grew to love and respect "orcas."