… killer whales is from their diet, we would expect killer whales … a higher exposure to these
pollutants. Moreover, our results … killer whales were substantially higher than in resident killer …

… adult killer whales and in their food. The goal of this research was the assessment of the dietary
exposure of killer whales to these pollutants … among the most contaminated in the planet. …

… This paper compares blubber stratification in two odontocete species 2 white whales (Delphinapterus
leucas) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) 2 by measuring five parameters (ie …

… For all killer whales in this study, three contaminant classes dominated the blubber profiles
… All individual contaminants were detected in each killer whale, with the exceptions of aldrin, …

… and stable isotopes analysis (Krahn et al., 2004, Krahn et al., 2007, such sampling strategies
are not readily achievable in killer whales from North Atlantic waters. Killer whales samples …

… killer whales for which there is little contaminant information. … chemical contaminant data
for free-ranging killer whales in … These Alaskan killer whales contain some of the highest …

… Orcinus orca, or killer whales, are … organochlorines reported in the tissues of marine
mammals and other nearshore vertebrate predators since 1995. We focus on five organochlorines …

… concentrations of POPs in killer whales from this region. Specifically, the dioxin-like and
non-dioxin-like PCB congeners, as well as the organochlorine pesticides DDTs and HCB were …

… While we did not measure the organochlorine pesticide dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane
(DDT), other studies of marine mammals from the southern hemisphere have found their …

… High levels of POPs like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
(DDT), and other organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in killer whales are concerning given …