A Bigg's killer whale that died after being beached off north Vancouver Island was pregnant, according to a necropsy.
Efforts still underway to save orphaned calf, named kʷiisaḥiʔis or 'Brave Little Hunter.'The Canadian PressA Bigg's killer whale that died after being beached off north Vancouver Island was pregnant, according to a necropsy. A necropsy on the killer whale that died after being stranded off northern Vancouver Island shows she was pregnant with another calf.
Towers, who's with the research group Bay Cetology, says scientists, area First Nations and volunteers are now focusing their efforts on coaxing the killer whale's two-year-old calf out of the lagoon, but the timing of the tidal waters only offers a daily opportunity of about 30 minutes for the animal to swim out of the lagoon.
The Fisheries Department's marine mammal rescue experts have said the goal is to convince the calf to leave the lagoon in the hope that it can reconnect with other members of its family.The female orca was stranded on shore in Little Espinosa Inlet, about six kilometres southwest of Zeballos, at low tide while a calf swam nearby.WATCH | Community mourns dead killer whale:The race to save an orca calf is underway off Northern Vancouver Island.
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