![]() More images and information on Danielle's website.Ī documentary has been made on the killer whales of Eden, inspired by Danielle's research. Killers in Eden is published by Museum Victoria.ĭanielle's other books include Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia (2009), and Prehistoric marine life in Australia's inland sea (Aug 2015). There they would invite the humans to join in on the hunt, even slapping their tails on the water's surface to alert the whalers to their presence.Īfterwards both groups would share the spoils. 'Old Tom' and his pod would round up migrating baleen whales and drive them into the bay's shallow waters. ![]() Years later Danielle returned to uncover the history of Eden's whaling industry, and the remarkable part played by a family of orcas. ![]() It was on a family sailing trip that she first saw the skeleton of a large killer whale known as 'Old Tom', in Twofold Bay. Danielle is a zoologist and science writer at Flinders University. ![]()
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