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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
I find it annoying that a documentary has such a bad misnomer. Black-"mammal" is much more appropriate, even though I'm aware that they have a nickname of blackfish.
As for the movie, there's no doubt that in the process of handling animals some mistakes are made. What I find ridiculous is the "whale psychologist" saying exactly how whales feel about certain things. Just a bit of a stretch IMO.
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My youth was spent in an isolated logging camp on Sonora Island. They had a regular route in front of our camp and we called them "blackfish". The name comes from the natives and is part of the Chinook jargon, of which their expressions were still pretty common on the coast in those days. So "blackfish" is not just some nick name, it has a long history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon