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The northern resident population consists of three clans (A, G, R) that consists of several pods with one or more matrilines within each pod. The northern residents are genetically distinct from the southern resident orcas and their calls are also quite distinct.
Boaters watching northern resident orca in Johnstone Strait. The plight of the orcas has attracted attention throughout the Pacific Northwest and the United states since the 1980s. The Salish Sea orcas have become an iconic natural treasure of the region and a symbol of the area's ecological productivity.
Orcas live in three different ecotypes, or classifications. Resident orcas stay close to the shore and feed primarily on salmon along the west coast of Canada and into the Pacific Northwest of the ...
Tracking the Humboldt Current orcas and knowing what the killer whales are hunting and eating will help conservation groups protect the orcas, which are described as “data deficient” by the ...
A5 Pod is a name given to a group of orcas (Orcinus orca) found off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.It is part of the northern resident population of orcas—a name given to the fish-eating orcas found in coastal waters ranging from mid-Vancouver Island in British Columbia up through Haida Gwaii and into the southeastern portions of Alaska.
A group of whale watchers recently encountered a “majestic” moment in Monterey Bay, California. While on a Blue Ocean Whale Watch tour, the boaters spotted approximately seven killer whales ...
Corky II (born c. 1965), often referred to as just Corky, is a female captive orca from the A5 Pod of northern resident orcas. At approximately the age of four, Corky was captured from Pender Harbour off the coast of British Columbia on 11 December 1969. [2] She has lived at SeaWorld San Diego in San Diego, California since 21 January
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