A pod of orcas handed whales' tongues to people for decades
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A pod of orcas handed whales' tongues to people for decades
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A pod of orcas handed whales' tongues to people for decades
In this episode, we tell how a single orca-Old Tom-and his pod coordinated hunts with coastal whalers and Indigenous people across generations. We trace the rules, signals, and relationships that governed the partnership and ask what the animals themselves might have understood about the bargain.
Person: Old Tom
Location: Twofold Bay, New South Wales
Event: Cooperative hunting between orcas and humans
Period: mid-1800s to 1930s
Practice: The Law of Tongue (orcas took tongue, lips, genital region; Davidsons took blubber and bones)
- Old Tom produced a repeated flop-tailing signal that summoned Davidson whalers in green rowboats to the hunt.
- The hunt used three orca roles: cutting escape, preventing deep dives, and disabling the whale’s breathing until harpooned.
- The Davidsons refused motorized boats and explosive harpoons because the pod required traditional rowing methods.
- The Katunga people had fed and treated the orcas as kin for millennia, a practice the Davidsons later joined.
- The partnership included mutual protections: orcas guarded fallen men and the whalers freed entangled orcas.
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