Southern Resident Killer Whales: J Pod's Family Cuddle Time (HD with realtime orca calls) скачать в хорошем качестве

Southern Resident Killer Whales: J Pod's Family Cuddle Time (HD with realtime orca calls)

J pod of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales hunted for salmon in Haro Strait (next to San Juan Island) on 1/21/13. I filmed them using a superzoom camcorder from a whale watch boat that carefully remained at least 200 yards from these orcas, obeying the laws that protect them from human disturbance. The voices of these orcas were recorded simultaneously from a hydrophone dropped off the boat and connected to a speaker while the boat engine was shut down. You can see how closely these killer whales swim together in their tightly bonded family groups. In some sections of this film (12:17 and 14:25) you can see some family groups--mothers and their children and grandchildren--cuddling, playing, and rolling together in the water! These orcas are free to roam where they please, unlike the ones in marine circuses like SeaWorld, and they never leave their mothers. They remain in closely bonded matrilineal family groups for their entire lives, which can last over 100 years for females and over 60 years for males. They swim up to 100 miles per day. These orcas are endangered because SeaWorld got its start decades ago by capturing and selling one-third of them--specifically targeting the babies, taking an entire generation and killing many of their mothers, who were trying desperately to protect them. (All but one of those captured whales died in SeaWorld's barren concrete tanks within a few years. The sole survivor is Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium, imprisoned alone for 43 years in a tiny bathtub-sized tank.) The population of the Southern Resident Killer Whales has never recovered to its precapture numbers, and these beloved orcas of Puget Sound remain endangered. Please visit my website (http://www.wildnwbeauty.com) and my Facebook page (  / wildnorthwestbeauty  ) to see more of my beautiful Pacific Northwest photography.