"We'vereallycometolearnthatyouarewhatyoueat,"saysPeterRoss,seniorscientistandhealthywatersprogramdirectorattheRaincoastConservationFoundationinBritishColumbia,whowasn'tinvolvedinthestudy."Thetopofthefoodchain,asillustratedbytheselong-livedkillerwhales,isextremelyeasytohurt."...
Desperately Seeking OrcasPresents information on the killer whales or orcas in British Columbia's Johnstone Strait. How people get the attention of the whales; How Haida Indians view the place.Pottenger, DennisWise, JayneNational Geographic Tra...
Currently, 22 species in the marine waters of the Southern Strait of Georgia are either federally designated as Endangered, Threatened, Special Concern, or considered high conservation priority by the government of British Columbia. These include humpback whales, harbour porpoises, Steller sea lions, a...
“We’ve really come to learn that you are what you eat,” says Peter Ross, senior scientist and healthy waters program director at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation in British Columbia, who wasn’t involved in the study. “The top of the food chain, as illustrated by these long-lived...
. They ignored a sea otter and a small group of Steller sea lions, which bunched tighter, rose high out of the water, and huffed as the orcas passed. Hauled on numerous rocks and islets were their likely prey: harbor seals, the main food of West Coast transients in British Columbia....
Spring/Summer/Fall Range:Waters around the north end of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island and in protected inlets along the province’s central and north coast;have been observed as far south as the Washington State coastline Winter Range:As far north as southeast Alaska. ...
If you want to see wild orcas, they can be found in every ocean, from the Arctic to Antarctic. The coast of Canada’s British Columbia, Argentina’s Valdes Peninsula, and Australia’s Bremer Bay are all popular orca-watching spots....
However, sex-specific responses to human presence have been found earlier in cetaceans. Williams et al.77 studied the habituation to human activities by orcas in Johnson Detroits (British Columbia). They found that the animal’s reaction to boats changed in a sex-specific way with time. While...
The Southern Resident killer whales are a small, close knit community of animals — more accurately known as orcas, the largest species of dolphins — which live primarily along the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. When they were listed as endangered in 2005, there were 88 Sou...
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