What Are Southern Resident Orcas?
2018 ж. 11 Қар.
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Orcas are icons of the Pacific Northwest, but one population that frequents Washington's Salish Sea is struggling to survive.
The group, called southern residents, made national headlines this summer when a newborn calf died, and its mother carried the body for 17 days in apparent grief. A month later, a young female disappeared and is now presumed dead, reducing the endangered population to just 74 whales.
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I’ve been curious for a long time, what are Biggs orcas? Or is that just another term for transients?
yes, that is just another name for transient killer whales.
Why haven't you mentioned that Northern Resident Orcas are increasing in numbers? Or that, the genealogy suggests that there has only ever been around 100 of Southern Residents? Or that the current populations has more males than females, thus decreasing their breeding capacity? Those are pretty inconvenient facts when you're trying to gaslight people eh?
ScreamingReelsTV Damn, thanks for the info. That explains a whole lot. *edit: there are lots of other species that eat salmon too. How come we’re only seeing the Southern Resident Orcas’ population drop and not other species’ population as well, right?
Southern resident orcas have evolved to specifically feed on only salmon and they show a strong preference for chinook salmon (unique from all other populations of orcas in this way, and no other species has this trait either as far as we know).
I do agree, but at the same time you cannot deny that they’re dwindling population is concerning
Why can’t we start growing the chinok populations ourselves then release into pudget sound bay? Seems like the only logical way to do it
@@joebruno2119 30 fish a day, 74 orcas. If you want to breed 2240 salmon everyday be my guest
Yes, the ecology is dying...