Experts have been studying whales in the Pacific Ocean since the 1970s This particular pod is called the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW ... average lifespan of a wild orca is between ...

Alexandra Morton remembers studying Corky at Marineland in the late 1970s, watching as Corky’s newborn — the first to be born in captivity ... Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas ...

Mother orca Tahlequah is continuing to carry her burden of grief: a dead calf that she now has been refusing to let go of for ...