A two-year-old whale calf would have done well to have listened to its great-aunt and followed her voice out of the lagoon it is trapped in and into the open ocean.
This time, Mr. Cottrell and his colleagues were left to wonder what the great-aunt said in her recorded message. The mother, who was pregnant, ended up stranded on a sandbar just inside the lagoon and she died March 23, despite efforts by the local First Nation members who were trained by Mr. Cottrell.
Most Bigg’s killer whales share a common dialect, and individuals are known to leave one pod and join another. “So, if the little whale exits the lagoon, there’s a good possibility it would link up with another Bigg’s group, even if not its extended family,” he said. Tide conditions haven’t been in the rescuers’ favour. Even high tide is currently at a lower level than ideal for the whale to escape.
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