ANOTHER NEW BORN IN J POD!!
It’s too early to celebrate, but the Center For Whale Research has confirmed the sighting of a second newborn in J pod.
The newborn J-44 is J-14′s, (Samish, born in 1974) new calf and J-45 is J-17′s (Princess Angeline, born in 1977) new calf. The whales were seen around the San Juan’s on Monday.
J-17, Princess Angeline has two surviving offspring’s, J-28 and J-35, both females. J-14 has four offspring’s, J-30, J-37, J-40 and J-43. J-43 was born in 2007 so is a fairly new one. She is in busy whale.
Both moms are over 30 years old which is still within their child bearing years.
That is three newborns this winter including the unidentified calf in L pod, to the southern residents. L pod hasn’t been around lately to get an ID on who the mom is. Unfortunately an adult L pod whale, L-57, Faith, is listed as missing. I am hoping that L-57 is still alive and will be back here in the spring.
Let’s hope for the best.
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