SILVER SPRING, Md. – According to the results of a ten-year, $37 million study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, orca whales, commonly known as killer whales, are still universally stoked on their supremely tight name.
Using the largest data set ever obtained from the boss-ass species, the study surveyed more than 5,000 killer whales using advanced hydrophone technology as well as research drones.
“It’s pretty amazing,” says Douglas DeMaster, science director at the NOAA. “These animals are communicating with each other, and to the best of our knowledge, are mostly talking about how rad their name is, and how tough it makes them seem.”
This study comes on the tail of the 25th anniversary of the whale’s name being changed back to killer whale after a brief experiment in the ’80s with the name “tubular whales.”
