Baby orphan orca escapes Canadian lagoon after month of attempts
by BBC News
BBC News— The orphaned calf swam from British Columbia after several rescue attempts by a First Nations community.
NBC News—Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month. ZEBALLOS, British Columbia — A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf saw it swim past the area where its mother had died, pass under a bridge and head down the inlet “all on her own.” The young orca still must leave the...
FOX News—Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month. A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf saw it swim past the area where its mother had died, pass under a bridge and head down the inlet "all on her own." ORCA CALF STRANDED IN CANADIAN LAGOON TO BE AIRLIFTED AND REUNITED...
WTOP—Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month. ZEBALLOS, British Columbia (AP) — A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that