"The World's Loneliest Orca" named Lolita might not a family to return home to when she's set free. All 3 pods (J, K and L) of Washington's endangered southern resident orcas are "dammed" and hungry. As reported in KING 5 News, http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/10/07/orca-chinook-snake-river-dams/73551310/ the southern resident almost exclusively Chinook salmon, but the salmon have lost spawning grounds statewide to dams along the Snake River.
The killer whales are going hungry. They're also metabolizing their own blubber -- which can kill them. The salmon also determine the sex of the orca calves; less food means more males that will not find female partners to reproduce with.
Fortunately, Washington activists see
The killer whales are going hungry. They're also metabolizing their own blubber -- which can kill them. The salmon also determine the sex of the orca calves; less food means more males that will not find female partners to reproduce with.
Fortunately, Washington activists see