Killer whales, also known as orcas, are highly mobile, free to adjust to change, and quick to take advantage of new opportunities – something they are already doing in the Arctic Ocean offshore of Russia and Alaska. It’s not a perfect analogy, but the animals do have something in common with rich countries, some of whom are already scrambling to exploit new resources, long locked beneath snow and ice. When it comes to climate change, scientists are finding that killer whales may be nature’s equivalent of rich Westerners: able to move, adjust, and perhaps even profit from it, when others less fortunate are unable to do so.
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