B.C.’s ’southern resident’ orcas have been wandering far from home. Could this be the end?
The orca family known as J pod have been swimming far away from their Salish Sea digs. Will they return in 2022?
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orcas
Aye, there’s the rub
Killer whales are drawn to a part of northeast Vancouver Island, where they engage in a strange activity—’beach rubbing’
How we learned to love orcas
Vancouver’s Moby Doll taught people how wrong they’d been about the ‘sea devil’
How a fake killer whale didn’t become the saviour of a small town
A life-sized fibreglass orca was meant to save Astoria, Ore. from their sea lion problem. It didn’t work.
Killer whales in captivity: An idea whose time has passed?
As attitudes change, it may be time for public pressure to change its focus from captive killer whales to wild ones
Why whales and dolphins should qualify as ’non-human people’
They can understand numbers and abstract concepts and have their own distinct culture and traditions
In the company of whales
Sperm whales have distinct dialects, complex relationships and a set of traditions passed down between generations—what scientists are calling a ‘multicultural civilization’