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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 original Baby Shamu, aka Kalina, was her older half-sister, though Kalina had a different mother. Baby Shamu II was never given a real name [64] as she died on January 16, 1986, just 12 days after she was born. The cause of death was a heart defect. Young orcas are born with heart valves open and they should close soon after birth.
Dave Phillips was one of the numerous whale experts who helped the orca star of Free Willy return to the wild. Now, Phillips is working to help two other whales in captivity at a closed marine ...
Lolita was member of L Pod of the southern resident orcas, an endangered orca community that lives in the northeast Pacific Ocean. She was a close relative of L25 "Ocean Sun", who is the oldest member of the pod. After Lolita's death, L25 "is the only living whale from the 1960s and 1970s capture era."
In May, SeaWorld launched a new aquatic life park in the United Arab Emirates, its first outside the U.S., with no orcas. (The park features other animals, like dolphins and seals.) (The park ...
She successfully reintegrated with a resident British Columbia orca pod and is still with that pod today. Morgan's case, however, presented some key differences to that of Springer. The Northern Resident population of orcas which Springer is a part of have been intensively studied for many decades, with all individuals and the majority of ...
A pod of orcas thrilled onlookers on Fox Island, Washington State, the creatures putting on a remarkable display as they breached repeatedly.Footage filmed by David Cope, who said the event ...
There are no unidentified orcas in these waters, and every individual's place in their society is known. Continuous field studies since Michael Bigg's in 1973 have created a near-complete genealogy of the living Southern Residents, with only one individual born prior to the 1970s remaining alive as of August 2023: L25 Ocean Sun. [20] [21]