The beautiful orca is then struck back to the tiny pool where he has spent most of ... after issues while giving birth, leaving the killer whale mostly alone for the past 25 years.
Researchers do not yet know J62's gender or who J62's mother is. Southern resident killer whales are the only endangered population of killer whales in the U.S., according to the National Oceanic ...
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.
The population of southern resident killer whales — three pods of fish-eating orcas that frequent the waters between Washington state and British Columbia — has struggled for decades ...