a female orca leads the lesson, demonstrating how to pull the seal off the ice by its tail, as the calves watch and learn. She lets the seal escape, and after it jumps back on the ice, the calves ...

The newest Southern Resident orca, J62, was confirmed as a female calf after the Center for Whale Research had an encounter ...

The center’s research director, Michael Weiss, estimated that only 50% of orca calves survive their first year. The center described the death of J35’s calf as particularly devastating — not ...

The Centre for Whale Research says it has confirmed a new killer whale calf in a pod of endangered orcas that live off southwest British Columbia is female.

An endangered southern resident orca calf, first discovered on New Year ... endangered Southern Resident orcas Healthy female calves are pivotal to repopulating the species locally, as just ...

The Center for Whale Research confirmed Sunday that the new orca calf in the J pod, J62, is female. During a sighting on Feb. 8, researchers said J62 appeared to be “doing well” and is ...

orca arrive to hunt the humpback calves, sometimes killing as many as five a day But there is another big pull to the place. Off the coast lies a coral reef; Ningaloo, the largest fringing reef on ...

Unraveling the mystery of the missing blue whale calves Date: February 21, 2025 Source: University of Washington Summary: Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf ...

Researchers say they’re “cautiously optimistic” about the health of a new southern resident killer whale calf after drone video showed the calf swimming with its pod east of Vancouver Island in late ...

with the mothers losing as many as two-thirds of their calves. Scientists have linked the high rate of pregnancy failures to lack of adequate, quality food, especially Chinook salmon. Mother orca ...