A Canadian scientist just saw some of the world's rarest killer whales
Josh McInnes, a Victoria-based marine mammal scientist who works with the Marine Life Studies research organization in Monterey, Calif., has just returned from a three-week expedition in the Antarctic.
"We were scanning with binoculars and one of the other naturalists shouted out there was killer whales, as well," McInnes told CTV News. "Suddenly we realized what we had with these amazingly rare killer whales." One of the rarest among them is the Type D killer whale, which is what McInnes and the group had just come upon.
The Victoria resident said the recent encounter with the Type D whales marks the farthest south the mammals have ever been recorded.
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