Cladistically dolphins are a type of toothed whale. They're more closely related to species like sperm whales than toothed whales and baleen whales are to each other.

Depends on how your language classifies their names I guess.

~~Cetaceans technically, dolphins being the most well-known cetacean.~~ I was hasty, they are actually in the dolphin family, Delphinidae. Neat.

tbf the guy famously survived

Yes, people didn't exist back then.

They're Maine Coons, not 'House Cats'

They're just commonly understood colloquial names.

Actually, the last documented orca attack in the wild was in the 1800s. The orca bit the human once and spit the guy out. Didn't even sever the arm that got bitten. Orcas as a species will eat anything in the water, including the occasional polar bear, except us. Individual Orcas have very narrow diets depending on the pod. Their eating habits are fascinating if you look into them.

Now if the orca was put into a fishbowl, and forced to do tricks while in solitary confinement? Well PTSD is a motherfucker.