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.
The baby spoken of J50 is now almost 2 and called Scarlett But one of Jpod is presumed dead, J14 Samish,a 42 year girl. And a new mother J 28 Polaris is seen with a peanuthead due to starvation! The 4 lower Snake River dams need to come down, the orca are starving NOW!
if we want them to be here for future generations.. they need salmon which is dammed up. Time to breach to 4 lower Snake River dams to release their food.
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.
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.
This is why so many here in BC oppose the oil plans. Sure its great for Alberta. A spill to them means a mess in someones field,here it could mean the end of an entire pod of whales that is an industry in itself.
Best news of the day. I went whale watching just a month ago, left from Port Townsend, WA to the San Juan Islands . It was a spectacular, day, one that I will always cherish.
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.
"Because it was a difficult delivery, scientists believe that actually two members of this pod... midwifed this baby. Pulled this baby out of its mother." Is there an orca baby boom underway off Vancouver Island?
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? . ._
I would love the experience this watching them in their natural habitat. I see dolphins close up a few times a week in the ocean where I live and it never gets old💓🥰
It was so strange to me when he said that the southern residents would never eat seals, but then when he compared it to our cultures and the fact that people from 1 culture might never eat something that another culture sees as normal, it really helped me understand.
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
@@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!!!
We need to save our orcas they are a very important part of our environment and we need to keep them safe from whatever is killing these beautiful animals. I want to help save these animals. Please let me know how
@@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
we the human race are responsible for making sure orcas and all other animals and fish have a reasonable life..i know theres a food chain but why do we always have to be at the top taking more than our share..we act so untitled and that means everything else has to suffer
If you are watching this in 2018 you should know that J50 unfortunately passed in September. This "baby boom" in 2015 is the last time this pod has produced any viable calfs.
This is how people SHOULD be seeing Orcas. In the ocean, with their families, swimming free. I didn't see ONE collapsed dorsal fin or logging Orca in that pod. They all looked happy. And I'm GLAD none of these precious babies will be snatched away to be taken to Seaworld Prison.
is there any chance of refraining public from catching salmon in that area, also to breed primarily chinook salmon, which is the fav food of Southern Resident Orcas
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.
That’s such a fascinating thought, that they have their respective cultures and eat certain culturally accepted foods while avoiding possibly “taboo,” foods.
i'm saddened to see a pregnant orca died of malnourishment. i hope there will be a breeding progrom for their favorite food which is the salmon...but by looking at the polution and global warming stage, i think the chances of surviving for these salmon could be pretty slim, sigh!
To everyone in their feelings crying out, "Orca are not whales, they are dolphins!" Dolphins ARE toothed whales. Another well known toothed whale is the Sperm Whale. You know what else Orca and Sperm whales have in common, besides having teeth? They use echolocation. Yup, that is a toothed whale thing. Blue, Minke, Humpback and the other whales that have baleen are called Baleen whales.
One problem with biologist’s assessment of culture and feeding - humans will even eat each other if starving. I wonder if orcas really are that “picky” or if there are some genetic differences that require the other diets.
What made such a dramatic difference in 4 years.. And they just put this on national news when Tallequahs baby died when this video 4 years ago was crucial. So sad we wait till the last minute to truly care.
Sadly, J 50, the baby Orca that jumped out of the water died last year. From 81 whales in the Southern Resident whale they are down to 75 today. Praying that we are not too late.
I love the offices they are so beautiful. I would love to swim with them. He'll I just want to see them. Been to California 5 times and not seen one. That's my dream got see them and the dolphins. Love them.please save them.we need our beautiful animals.Terri
Sustainable fishing. We need to stop feeding our gluttony. We made ourselves the stewards of this planet. It has allowed us to progress beyond anything imaginable. But as stewards we have a responsibility for each and every other species we share this beautiful blue marble. About time we paid attention to that responsibility
I sleep with a large stuffed Orca Whale/dolphin named Oreo every night, he makes me feel less lonely. He says Hi. 👋 Don’t understand how you could hurt such beautiful creatures.
In this day and age with everything we know- who the hell is still attending sea world? What joy do you get watching beautiful creatures perform like slaves?
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.
Pregnant Orcas beached due to hunger. Sad! Sound is their world so I think sounds would reasonable hurt them! Tilly looked so emancipated before he died. Rip.
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.
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.
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.
seems this water around Vancouver is without fish for the orcas so they should organize a large aqua park with salmons and feed the orcas. Otherwise, they will eventually leave.
The orca died with condition of badly malnourish? That surely heartbreaking.. the living creature who live in the ocean is starving for salmon? What a sad..sad irony.. 😢😢😢
There should be a ban on commercial fishing in the area not individual fishing. Temporary ban on commercial fishing should help restore delicious salmon populations
See orcas in the wild. Don't see the dolphin show. They stole orcas from the ocean. Lolita is still at the Miami Seaquarium after being kidnapped in 1970. She's been in prison for 51 years
The idea that a large whale could be malnourished is very depressing. Humans are to blame for this, by over-fishing the oceans and contributing to climate change.
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.
