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Multispecies habitats should be designed around the animals’ needs, not the visitor’s Social Sharing CBC Docs · A walrus with trainer at Vancouver Aquarium(Sebastion Furtado) comments In the summer of 1964, the Vancouver Aquarium commissioned a sculptor to create a life-size model of a killer whale. An orca was to be killed off the coast of British Columbia and be used for the display; however, the hunter's harpoon hooked the whale but it didn't die. The injured animal, named Moby Doll, was towed back to the aquarium and put on display. Long regarded as "monsters" and fearsome predato...

A Group of Orca Outcasts Is Now Dominating an Entire Sea Katharine Gammon © Melanie Lambrick On a warm September afternoon, on San Juan Island off the northwestern coast of Washington State, I boarded J2, a sleek black-and-white whale-watching vessel. The boat was named after a locally famous orca, or killer whale, affectionately known as “Granny.” Until her disappearance in 2016, Granny was the matriarch of J-pod, one of the three resident orca groups, or pods, that live in the surrounding Salish Sea. For what some experts think was more than a hundred years, Granny ret...

Link Copied On a warm September afternoon, on San Juan Island off the northwestern coast of Washington State, I boarded J2, a sleek black-and-white whale-watching vessel. The boat was named after a locally famous orca, or killer whale, affectionately known as “Granny.” Until her disappearance in 2016, Granny was the matriarch of J-pod, one of the three resident orca groups, or pods, that live in the surrounding Salish Sea. For what some experts think was more than a hundred years, Granny returned to these waters every summer, birthing babies and watching them grow. She taught her daughter...