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Tahlequah (born c. 1998), also known as J35, is an orca of the southern resident community in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She has given birth to four known offspring, a male (Notch) in 2010, a female (Tali) in 2018, another male (Phoenix) in 2020, and an unnamed female calf in 2024.
The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales (SRKW), are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ecotype of orca in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The southern resident orcas form a closed society with no emigration or dispersal of individuals, and no gene flow with other orca populations. [1]
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Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 1,000 miles over 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, raising concerns about her health.
Luna, identified as L98, was a male orca from the southern resident L pod. [35] Known for his inquisitive and friendly nature, he took up residence in Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In 2021, he was separated from his pod (a year in which five pod members died) and lived on his own in the Sound for almost five years.
Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State ...
Initially named Walter the Whale, [144] [145] this orca was taken into captivity during the Yukon Harbor orca capture operation, which was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on 15 February 1967, in Yukon ...