Podcasts & RSS Feeds

All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

News & Music Contributors

Abe Beeson
Abe Beeson
Evening Jazz Host
Ruby Brown
Ruby Brown
Sunday Side Up Jazz Host
Ashley Gross
Ashley Gross
Business and Labor Reporter
Martha Kang
Martha Kang
Online Managing Editor
Kirsten Kendrick
Kirsten Kendrick
Morning Edition Host
John Kessler
John Kessler
All Blues Host
Kevin Kniestedt
Kevin Kniestedt
Weekend Edition Saturday and Jazz on the Grooveyard Host
Robin Lloyd
Robin Lloyd
Midday Jazz Host
Mary McCann
Mary McCann
Saturday Jazz Matinee Host
Dave Meyer
Dave Meyer
All Things Considered Host
Bellamy Pailthorp
Bellamy Pailthorp
Environment Reporter
Keith Seinfeld
Keith Seinfeld
Health & Science Reporter/Assistant News Director
Gabriel Spitzer
Gabriel Spitzer
Youth & Education Reporter
Dick Stein
Dick Stein
Midday Jazz Host
Paula Wissel
Paula Wissel
Law & Justice Reporter
Nick Morrison
Nick Morrison
Production Manager/ Jazz & Blues Host

1:35pm

Wed December 21, 2011
E-mail
Print
Comments
Share
Environment

Baby joins orcas in Puget Sound, raising their numbers to 89

By
Enlarge image
Credit Candace Emmons / NOAA - NMFS Research Permit #781-1824.
New killer whale calf born to Jpod in December 2011.

A new baby orca was photographed Saturday in a pod that lives in Puget Sound.

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center posted a website photo Wednesday shot by scientist Candice Emmons.

The center and the Center for Whale Research confirmed the mother is 39-year old Slick, also known as J-16. It's her fifth calf since 1991 and it brings the total number of killer whales in the Southern Resident population to 89.

The federal government listed Southern Resident orcas as an endangered species in 2005.

On the Web: