The kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk, popularly known as Akh’lut, is a myth from Inuit folklore. It tells of a shape-shifting predator that could alter its appearance to hunt on land as a wolf and as an orca to do the same at sea. Its behavior is said to be extremely hostile towards humans, although the reason is unknown. Edward William Nelson first mentioned it to Western culture in “The Eskimo about Bering Strait” (1900), and since then it has evolved in popular imagination into the form of a large, quadrupedal cetacean with characteristics of both a wolf and an orca. It has a variant or counterpart in the form of a beluga whale and a caribou, which are peaceful in nature.
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first approach to orca body blocking