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Research in recent decades has shown that the gap between the human psyche and the psyche of animals is much smaller than it seems. Sometimes it is not even about the abyss, but about a small gap. And first of all, this applies to such animals as killer whales, which are far from us in terms of evolution and lifestyle, but close in intelligence and sociality. How do these marine mammals live and communicate with each other? Can we understand their language? How do they build their families? What is the difference between fish-eating and carnivorous killer whales? Hardly anyone can talk about this more fascinatingly and more authoritatively than Olga Filatova, a biologist, an expert in the field of acoustic communication of mammals and the behavior of cetaceans. Together with her and her colleagues, the reader will go to Kamchatka, Chukotka, the Commander Islands, where whale research is being conducted, will observe the progress of difficult and exciting expeditions, learn how the history of capturing killer whales in Russia began and ended, and what role they played in the fight against illegal trapping scientists.