The Center for Whale Research indicates that he has confirmed a new whale killer calf in a threatening pod in danger orcas Who live in the southwest of British Columbia is a woman.
This is good news for J-Pod, after the recent death of another calf whose mother pushed the carcass for days in what the researchers said they were a demonstration of sorrow.
The organization based in the state of Washington said on social networks that the new calf known as J62 was seen on February 8 of the island of San Juan, and the researchers were able to photograph his belly and confirm his sex.
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The group says that the calf seems to go well and “fills well”.
The center previously said that new women are important for resident-resident killers, because they are “largely limited by the number of reproductive women”.
This week’s position also indicates that the researchers were able to confirm that the adult woman J35, or Tahlequah, no longer carries the body of her dead calf, which she began to push on January 1.
The researchers previously declared that behavior was an apparent sorrow and that J35 has now lost two of his four documented calves.
She made the headlines worldwide when she pushed the remains of another calf for 17 days in 2018.
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