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Tsitika and her Son - Orcinus orca - Robert Bateman
"We
heard the orcas before we saw them. On
the boat’s hydrophone their squeals,
squeaks,
whistles and sighs
sounded as if they were echoing in a cavernous space.
Finally the mist
lifted a little and we saw a phalanx of
black dorsal fins not too far off
- a family pod. Then
the
mist swallowed them up again. Perhaps one of
the pods
we glimpsed on that magical
day of whale watching belonged
to a whale that
researchers
have named Tsitika, an orca
matriarch
whose life history has given
me a
glimpse into the orca world. Tsitika and her
family belong to the northern
resident
population of British Columbia killer whales. They have a remarkable
social
system that we are just beginning
to understand."
- Robert Bateman
