Orka , "Taku K1"
Orcinus orca
"Oceanium", Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Lifesize; 7,7 metres.
1999
±10 weeks.
This model is made by using a lot of pictures of living animals and in cooperation with
The natural History Museum "NATURALIS"in Leiden, who gave me the opportunity to casts the teeth of a skull. This animal is sculpted after a the pictures of a specific individual, a animal known as "Taku nr. K1’’ studied in Vancouver. External bodymesurements of a dead animal from Germany, where given to me by Dr. Behrmann from the Afred Wegener-Institut, Fur polar und meeresforschung at Bremerhaven.
Exact I.D.-pictures and vital-information where given to my disposal by miss. A. .M. van Ginneken.
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