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Video: Killer Whales Hit San Francisco Bay Area

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In the benefits-of-coastal-living department, here's something you don't often see just 20 or so miles from office buildings and apartment houses: A pod of killer whales out in the wild.

Last week a group of people on a whale-watching tour got what they paid for when they happened upon a group of a dozen or so orcas cavorting not too far from the Golden Gate Bridge. The videos have hit YouTube:


Check out the video at the bottom of this page for a different view.

Some orcas eat sea mammals like sea lions and other whales, while others eat only fish, according to an expert in one of the videos plus lots of sites on the Internet.

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The Marine Mammal Anti-Defamation League said the whales were in town to protest the negative depiction of orcas in the 1977 Dino DeLaurentis epic Orca The Killer Whale, a clip of which we provide below, strictly for informational purposes:

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