Call it “the wisdom of elders.” A new study concludes that British Columbia's southern resident Orca pod is led by “post reproductively aged” females who help it survive during lean years. According to the study, the older females serve as key leaders, directing younger members of the pod, and especially their own sons, to the […]
The worldwide population of Orcas probably crashed during the last Ice Age, creating a “bottleneck” in the genetic diversity of the species around the world, a problem that could continue to affect killer whales today, according to a new genetic study published on February 4,2014. Rus Hoelzel from the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, […]
Whales are coming back to Douglas Channel. In 2013, many Kitimat residents with long experience on the water have reported and are still reporting more sightings of both orcas and humpback whales. Add to this a recently published scientific study that shows the number of humpbacks at the mouth of the channel near Gil […]
A new study suggests that the health of the grizzly bear population is also a strong indicator of the health of Pacific salmon—and perhaps surprisingly, allowing grizzlies to consume more salmon will, in the long term, lead to more, not less, salmon. The study, led by Taal Levi, of the University of California at Santa […]