Orca Baby Boom Off Vancouver Island 

Each pod “speaks” a slightly different language when communicating to each other too.

All I will say it not a sickness kinda think even Keiko had it after moving back to the ocean

Tiffany Kozak True... however, dorsal fin collapse *IS* due to their being confined in small cement “pools” for years if not decades... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Tiffany Kozak because it’s permanently like that forever 😒

Tiffany Kozak are you aware that in the wild a female orcas life span is 80-90 years max and males is 50-60 years max, and in captivity the average age of an orca dying is 14 years? That difference is just so horrific.

there’s no bones in the dorsalz

They're one of very few animals that have a shorter expected life span in captivity than in the wild. That alone suggests we dont provide them with an adequate lifestyle in captivity.

@@jafrost1328 pelagic sharks and whales swim long distances...they do poorly in small pools...

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J50 has peanut head as well.

Natasja Dirken how do you keep up with this info?

Well they all look the same

Is it too crazy to suggest restocking the oceans fish? People need to stop eating all of the other animals food. We can survive being vegitarian.

Salmon's lives matter! . . sure.....They live to be EATEN BY APEX PREDATORS!!

Grim Chickn I agree

Grim Chickn Well it’s official. Babies have died and J50’s starving. Boycott salmon to leave more to the Orca. End farmed salmon and stop the pipeline and the oil shipping tankers planned for their seas. How likely are these to happen? Not very. Grieve the orca. (I do wonder if boycotting salmon would get the attention of some power brokers to do less harm to the Orca. Might get the salmon farmers on the side of the Orca paradoxically.) Dunno. I’ve got chemo brain so my ideas can be convoluted. Cheers.

Grim Chickn P Oiutrwq

@@aremedyproject9569 they died? really?

There are 3 "cultures" the siwnist's know about: Southern residents, Northern residenz and transiwnts- they eat marine mammal's!! The other 2 sat Samon and Hering

@@horse-lover68 you don't know what you're talking about!!! shame on you why don't u talk about Asia & go back 🔙 there

That doesn't make sense!

@@susannewatson1219 I exactly know what I am taking about. Ask real sientist's like Dr Ingrid Visser,Dr Naomi Rose and not aquarium mob. Shame on you!!!

@@horse-lover68 but then there are also pods near NZ and in the indian ocean and near Iceland.... They all have their own culture

True, except for the issue they're not 'whales'.. 😕

Bryan Ouellet When has any human entered an animals body and eat it alive?

Wow what was it like..it's my dream to swim w them in the wild

D89t ** I’m so jealous that you live in a country that acknowledges environmental issues and isn’t run by Donald Trump.

D89t ** Them don’t be friends with America and develope our heavy industries in the midland regions of Canada.

Can you imagine not holding every single human on this planet accountable for destroying the planet

Empty the tanks!!!!!!

M1TheWraith lol

they can't do that not anymore

With the drones and all... They will use them to hunt any kind of whale.

downtown82 Sea World hasn't captured a single Orca for 35 years now and isn't planning to do so in the future. A year ago, they announced to cancle the breeding program and shift the common orca shows from entertainment to education that are about their behaviors and social interaction They are also redesigning their aquariums to respond to this to imitate the orcas' natural surrounding. A step that is overdue, I guess. And drones are always only used to keep track of the orcas or to check if everything is alright when Sea World Rescue Teams release animals that had prior gotten injured.

Maybe people need to protest in the street making huge media coverage?

**BOYCOTT SEAWORLD!!** & Get everyone you know to, also. Watch "BLACKFISH"!! &.. GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO WATCH IT TOO...... 😭😥😢

@@cy4330 Been doing that for 35-40yrs!! ....but ppl keep paying to see them 'perform' in chlorinated BATHTUBS, then go home, while SEAWORLD lock the Orca up all night in separate tanks they can't even turn around in.... While 'HUMANS' PARTICIPATE IN THIS, SEAWORLD HAVE NO REASON TO SHUT THE ORCA SHOWS DOWN.

Rom B it’s sick what sea world has done I can’t even wrap my brain around it how it happened for so long the hell was never illegal to do that they ripped them from their families and from the wild where they can’t even go down far enough to protect themselves from the Sun that’s burning them it’s disgusting

@@aliciadantini338 I know... 😭

The National - *"Everything is perfectly normal."* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0nG28O_f9PA.html _We are killing the Planet. We are creating our own Extinction. Aint we? . ._

Anyway these orcas could be fed by releasing live salmon from fisheries in their waters..??

good

I really enjoyed this btw : )

Yes, or, at least for the type of salmon they eat.

BIG HUNGRY okay that was a long time ago but still disgusting

Missmollymoox so dumb

BIG HUNGRY humans eating humans is a very interesting (gag worthy too) way of saving the oceans/planet, very interesting point of view

There was 74 after J50 died. Now with the birth of a new baby in J and L pod, the number is 76. There was not 81 whales when Scarlet was alive...

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Capturing these whales is OUT OF THE QUESTION! Do you know how traumatic and violent a capture would be for them? This community has already had to deal with SeaWorld ripping babies away from their clans! We all want to help them, but a capture isnt the way to do it. Increase to the number of salmon that they can feed on will be more effective and will help the population to recover.

Capture doesn't help them ever...it kills them quickly and makes their killers millions...

The resident killer whales eat nothing other than salmon. They culturally wont eat anything else.

ffi1001 And over fishing the oceans

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Hi Oreo

Queennie a.k.a. Adelene I guess you mean private persons with "public"? Not a native english speaker, sorry. In that case: Those private persons can keep fishing, they don't take much, of what's available. Cutting the travel roots of salmons with dams, and industrial fishing is way more of an issue.

And.. I went to middle school with a Chris brown

Supadupaswankn 47 Yeah it’s not that rare of a name

Orcas have nothing to do with strandings of other dolphins or whales. Cetaceans strand for a wide range of reasons - if they are sick or injured, confusion, hunting mistakes, sonar blasts, migration mistakes, strong waves can push them towards the beach, ect.

Porpoise

Orcas are part of the Toothed Whale family and they are part of the Dolphin family. They are in fact small toothed whales, as are all members of the dolphin family.

All dolphins and porpoises are in the whale order. They are in the whale family so they are whales.

I dont understand why they haven't figured out a better way of getting salmon past the dams.

@@americanabulldog2465 they wont even look into it because the more they do, the more clear it is they shouldnt have built the dams in the first place

Because these ones are resident and local to that area. Most people in my city never leave their own city their entire lives and it's unheard of them too. Guess resident orca's are like these humans lol.

Resident killer whales like these do venture out to sea during the winter months, but they return to the same waters during the spring and summer. They come to the Salish Sea to raise children and hunt for the annual salmon runs. Because they return to the same local area every year, they are known as Resident whales. The resident killer whales are facing starvation because of a lack of food. The snake river dams block vital salmon breeding grounds and prevent thousands young salmon from reaching the ocean again. If the dams were to be bypassed (which is a very easy thing to do) the number of Chinook Salmon would rise and the whales would have enough to eat. They also face pollution, fishing, and noise disturbances, but the need for food is the most pressing issue. damsense.org/ Transient killer whales are the ones that roam the oceans in search of marine mammals to hunt and feed on.

Kevin Lew it would make more sense, to stop blocking the salmons going there with the dams. Breeding the amount of salmons you'd need to even feed a single pod might be close to impossible, it's just better, to let take nature it's course. And thinking about what they said, there are 81 orcas, which could easily be 4 pods. As I said: Nature knows, what it's doing, survival of the fittest is a thing, and orcas are the fittest sea creatures, if we'd let them

harooni22 pretty much what I said in my first sentence. But I agree.. Honestly... It's more likely that we could "produce" salmon to give it to humans (the demand isn't as high as some make it out to be), rather than breeding them for orcas. When you take an adult orca, and put that size into relation of a salmon, I wouldn't be surprised, when one orca alone eats more salmon per day, than the average human per month or even year. But the orcas in that area NEED the salmon, we don't. As I said.. just let nature take it's course.. all that geo shaping, dams and whatever.. It's all on the expense of wildlife. In this case important and quite rare wildlife.

The "farming" of salmon (Atlantic salmon) on the BC coast is a large part of the problem. Disease and lice in these open net pens is contaminating and diminishing (devastating) the wild stocks of salmon. These salmon farms need to be moved onto land and out of the migratory routes of wild salmon. Please look up and support Alexandra Morton for her efforts on this subject and raise awareness.

Horrible idea. you do not want them to lose their animal instincts .

Question is what happen s to the whales who try to feed of the salmon farmd