Because they are not whales who are also killers. Rather, they are killers who are killers of whales. They were named for their tendency to hunt whales. A be

Because they are not whales who are also killers. Rather, they are killers who are killers of whales. They were named for their tendency to hunt whales. A better translation would be whale-killers. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/killer_whale https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/killer_whale