If researchers can confirm what the photos appear to show, it would be the first new calf for the L pod since 2021.
is sharing photos of a calf believed to be traveling with the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales’ L pod off Tofino, British Columbia.
“These whales do babysit, so until we can get out there and see who it’s consistently traveling with, we don’t know who the mom is, yet,” Weiss added. “Our study area is mostly from eastern Juan de Fuca Straight into the San Juan Islands and up into the southern Georgia Straight,” Weiss said. “Several populations of Chinook salmon on the West Coast of the United States and Canada are endangered themselves,” Weiss stated. “So, you have an endangered species relying on another endangered species to survive.”
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