Orcasprimarily suffer from the effects of pollution, habitat loss, dams that block salmon spawning routes and starvation from declining populations of wild salmon, their main food source.
they start breeding at the ages 14-15, give birth to only 1 calf at a time every 3-10 years, the babies nurse for a full year, and almost half of all babies die within the first year :/
Glycolysis is a linear metabolic pathway of enzyme-catalyzed reactions that convert glucose into two molecules of pyruvate in the presence of oxygen or into two molecules of lactate in the absence of oxygen.