Orphaned B.C. orca may be eating fish, vet says, as rescuers plan new strategy
April 15, 2024
A Vancouver Aquarium expert who’s been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she’s been trapped for more than three weeks.Veterinarian Martin Haulena says he got a good look at the calf during Friday’s failed attempt to corral the whale, and it’s possible she’s foraging, “based on her body condition being maintained.”Haulena says there are salmon, perch, ling cod and rockfish in the Vancouver Island lagoon, and while those species aren’t part of the normal marine mammal diet of a Bigg’s killer whale, the calf could go after them if she was hungry.
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