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Southern Resident Killer Whales: Loving Family Reunion (HD)

In June 2014, J pod and L pod of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales reunited at San Juan Island after months apart during winter. They played and cuddled next to Lime Kiln Lighthouse, thrilling whale watchers standing on the rocky shore with an extraordinary glimpse of their family love! These wild killer whales 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 (in the wild) 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 young captured orcas died in SeaWorld's barren concrete tanks within a few years. The sole survivor is Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium, imprisoned alone for over four decades in a tiny bathtub-sized tank.) The population of the Southern Resident Killer Whales has never recovered to its precapture numbers, and these beloved killer whales of the Salish Sea remain endangered. Please visit my website (http://www.wildnwbeauty.com) and my Facebook page (  / wildnorthwestbeauty  ) to see more of my beautiful Pacific Northwest photography.