SUFB 1064: The Southern Resident Orca Population Adds Another Calf To The Pod!!!

How To Protect The Ocean · Oct 5, 2020 · 11m

Great News! A new Orca calf was spotted taking its first breaths off the coast of Victoria, B.C. The calf was spotted being propped up by it's other, J41. The naturalists who spotted the calf observed that it was rambunctious at the surface.

This is the second Orca calf spotted in September of 2020. It is too early to tell the health or the sex of this calf. The first was spotted on September 4th and was later identified as a male and healthy. The mother of that calf was J35.

J35 was the Orca from 2018 that carried her dead calf at the surface for 17 days in a row with the help from her pod…