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    Orca Hunting School
    Orca Hunting School
    Orca Hunting School
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    Orca Hunting School

    By Orson De Witt

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    The sea lion rookery at Peninsula Valdés is a festive table laid for the chief hunters of the ocean. Year after year it attracts groups of orcas for an easy hunt. This time, for one of the calves, comes the time to learn the perilous practice of hunting on land. But what kind of price will he have to pay for his desire to master this skill?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrson De Witt
    Release dateNov 2, 2016
    ISBN9781370574773
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      Orca Hunting School - Orson De Witt

      Orca Hunting School

      To the ones living in captivity.

      Part One

      It was full moon, and the little ripples on the vast sea glimmered and sparkled with gold. A young sea lion, his eyes wide in fear, jumped onto the rugged shore and scampered further into the mainland, glancing back again and again. The moonlight caressed the cliffed coast, filled to the brim with full-fed male sea lions, visibly smaller females and a pack of even smaller pups, still unaccustomed to their dark-brown streamlined bodies.

      A group of orcas was circling around by the jagged shoreline, every once in a while, emerging to take a breath. The biggest, Tilikum, was swimming a bit farther out, all by himself. The pod relied on him as a forager and never questioned his ability to hunt, which presupposed deep seclusion and silence.

      He wasn’t alone in his endeavor. Farther off, another male from a different group was prowling – Ulysses, a grumpy old orca that despised having to speak with anyone outside of his family. Even though he fell short in terms of size to his kin, not only was he not afraid to occasionally steal Tilikum’s prey from under his nose, but he didn’t see anything wrong in it, either. However, it only happened when Ulysses was on the verge of disgracing himself, as he called it, when there was a real chance of him leaving his family starving throughout the day.

      This night was prolific, though. It was January, the most plentiful time to hunt sea lions. Year after year, a colony of them congested on this pristine peninsula in the Southern Hemisphere to mate and breed. It was the month when the first sea lions were born – foolish and naïve – the easiest possible prey for the chief hunters of the ocean. Ulysses had already fed himself and his small family of three, but Tilikum still hadn’t had a taste of food in his mouth. Foragers were always the last ones to eat.

      Tilikum descried the hind-flippers of a sea lion through the clear water and started to creep towards it. It was essential to come and go unnoticed, to make his prey simply disappear. The pups were too young and inexperienced to associate black fin with the deadly danger that brings, and the fewer attacks they witnessed, the less menacing the ocean appeared to be.

      This careless pup served as proof. It sat on a rock a few meters from the shore, its back turned to the immensity of the ocean and its tiny hind flippers dangling down.

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