A02 Nicola

Name: A02
Nickname: Nicola
Gender: Female
Born: 1927
Died: 1987
Mother: Unknown
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:
Offspring: Possible A30 Tsitika born 1947, possible A3 (<1952-1979)

Listen to the distinctive calls of A1 pod

A80

Name: A80
Nickname:
Gender:
Born: 2004
Mother: A34 Simoom
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12

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A74 Stormy

Name: A74
Nickname: Stormy
Gender:
Born: 2000
Mother: A34 Simoom
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12

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A67 Eclipse

Name: A67
Nickname: Eclipse
Gender:
Born: 1996
Mother: A34 Simoom
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12

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A62 Misty

Name: A62
Nickname: Misty
Gender: Female
Born: 1993
Mother: A34 Simoom
Father: W2 Glenville
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12

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Misty had her first baby in 2005

A34 Simoom

Name: A34
Nickname: Simoom
Gender: Female
Born: 1975
Mother: A12 Scimitar
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12
Offspring:A55 Echo born 1990. A62 Misty born 1993, A67 Eclipse born 1996, A74 Stormy born 2000, A80 born 2004

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A33 Nimpkish

Name: A33
Nickname: Nimpkish
Gender: Male
Born: 1971
Mother: A12 Scimitar
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12

Offspring:

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A12 Scimitar

Name: A12
Nickname: Scimitar
Gender: Female
Born: 1941
Mother: Unknown
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A12
Offspring: A31 (1958-1997), A33 Nimpkish born 1971, A34 Simoom born 1975

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A46 Kaikash

Name: A46
Nickname: Kaikash
Gender: Male
Born: 1982
Mother: A36 Sophia
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A36
Offspring:

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Remarks.

A46 with scar on his dorsal
posted by janie @ 12:18 Category: Journal Cetacealab

Sunday 12 June 2005

Early in the morning we received a report of Orcas at the south end of Campania Island heading nortwest along the shoreline.It turned out to be the brothers but this time we noticed something different. As we idled parallel to them we noticed something on the right side of A46 dorsal fin but could not be sure because of the sun was shining straight on his fin from the side. But later we saw it again and this time it turned out to be for real. Looks like a big scar halfway down his dorsal with 3-4 streaks going up almost to the tip. Almost looks like he hit the rocks while chasing a salmon along the rocks. It must have happened some time between this morning and June 7th, because we did not notice it the last time. For those of you who can't wait to see them on the orca-live cameras in Johnstone Strait, we added pictures of them in our photogallery (whales).

A46 with a white scar at his dorsal fin

A37 Plumper

Name: A37
Nickname: Plumper
Gender: Male
Born: 1977
Mother: A36 Sophia
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A36
Offspring:

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A32 Cracroft

Name: A32
Nickname: Cracroft
Gender: Male
Born: 1964
Mother:Probable A36 Sophia
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A36
Offspring:Father of I42

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A20

Name: A20
Nickname:
Gender: Male
Born: 1953
Died: 1992
Mother:Probable A01 Stubbs
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:
Offspring:

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A36 Sophia

Name: A36
Nickname: Sophia
Gender: Female
Born: 1947
Died: 1997
Mother:Possible A01 Stubbs
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:A36
Offspring:Probable A32 Cracroft, born 1964, A44 (1973-1975), A37 Plumper, born 1977, A46 Kaikash, born 1982

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A 01 Stubbs

Name: A01
Nickname: Stubbs
Gender: Female
Born: 1927
Died: 1974
Mother:Unknown
Father: Unknown
Pod: A1
Matriline:
Offspring:Possibble A36 Sophia (1947-1997), probable A20 (1953-1992)

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Stubbs, identified in 1971, was the first whale named in the study.

She was called Stubbs because of her lopped-off dorsal fin.

A 82

Name: A 82
Nickname:
Gender: Unknown
Born: 2004
Mother: A59 Racey
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11

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A 81

Name: A 81
Nickname:
Gender: Unknown
Born: 2004
Mother: A52 Kiltik
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11

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A77 Roller

Name: A77
Nickname: Roller
Gender: ?
Born: 2003
Mother: A35 Skagit
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11

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A70 Sunny

Name: A70
Nickname: Sunny
Gender: ?
Born: 1999
Mother: A35 Skagit
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11
Offspring:

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A59 Racey

Name: A59
Nickname: Racey
Gender: Female
Born: 1992
Mother: A35 Skagit
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11
Offspring:A82 born 2004

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A52 Kiltik

Name: A52
Nickname: Kiltik
Gender: Female
Born: 1987
Mother: A35 Skagit
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11
Offspring:A76 (2002-2002), A81 born 2004

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A10

Name: A10
Nickname:
Gender: Female
Born: 1941
Died: 1983
Mother:Unknown
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline:
Offspring:Possibble A11 Yakat, A24 Kelsey, A19 (1973-1973), A47 (1983-1983)

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Remarks:

A10 was the matriarch of the A4 family. Alexandra Morton wrote in her book "Listening to whales":

In 1983 A10 and her youngest calf, A47, where shot by a boater.
Researcher Dave "Eagle Eye" Briggs, the California-based researcher who perches every summer on a cliff across from Robson Bight, heard the gunshots. Dave flagged down a whale-watching boat, and they went to check the whales. As the boat approached, the whales turned and came directly toward them. The passengers watched in awed horror.

"A10 pushed her wounded calf to my side of the boat," Dave later told me. "We could se the wound oozing blood. It really seemed that she was showing us: Look what you humans have done."

A10 and her baby both died that winter.

The two sisters, Yakat and Kelsy, assumed the roles of clan
matriarchs while still in their thirties, a young age for orca family
heads.

A56 Nahwitti

Name: A56
Nickname: Nahwitti
Gender: Female
Born: 1990
Mother: A11 Yakat
Father: R3 Nigei
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11

Offspring:

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A13 Skeena

Name: A13
Nickname: Skeena
Gender: Male
Born: 1978
Mother: A11 Yakat
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11

Offspring:Unknown

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A35 Skagit

Name: A35
Nickname: Skagit
Gender: Female
Born: 1974
Mother: A11 Yakat
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11
Offspring:A52 Kiltik, A59 Racey, A70 Sunny, A77 Roller

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A11 Yakat

Name: A11
Nickname: Yakat
Gender: Female
Born: 1958
Mother: Possible A10 (1941-1983)
Father: Unknown
Pod: A4
Matriline: A11
Offspring: A35 Skagit, A13 Skeena, A56 Nahwitti

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Foto: Alexandra Morton