Killer Whales of the Northern Resident Community: B1 pod

B1 pod was long known for its unusually high number of males. Although two old males, B1 and B2 died in 1998, the pod is still comprised mostly of males. The pod travels alone more than any other northern resident group, perhaps due to its preonderance of males.

The matriarch is Scarlet B7. She had between 1964 and 1995 7 calves, which 6 are males.
In 1964 B8, Izumi was born. Izumi died in 2002. After almost 13 years Scarlet had her second calf, B10, Slingsby in 1979. Then after 5 years she had B12, Nakwakto in 1984 who died in 2006. Three years later she had her fourth son, B13, Yaculta, born in 1987.
Then in 1991 she had her only daughter B14, Klaskish, who had her first calf, B16, Arrow, in 2004.
In 1995 Scarlet had her last son B15, Raven.

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Discrete calls

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B11 F: 1927-1973

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B2 Baronet M: <1952-1998

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B7 Scarlet F: 1947

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B1 M: Hooker <1951-1998

One of the first whales they identified was Hooker, which came from his distinctive fin, which hooked forward.

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B3 M: 1958-1982

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B5 M: 1963-1985

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B6 M Bauza: 1973-1992

When first identified, the Bs had a very, very small calf, young enough that he was still orange. Researchers called him Rusty because of his orange colouring. Rusty was very active as well, and while most calves were, he was hyper!
It's probable that Rusty was B6, who was born to B11 the year the study started. If so, he would grow up to be actually named Bauza.

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B8 Izumi M: 1964-2002

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B10 Slingsby M: 1979

The dorsal fin of B10 is very waky, tilting over to 30 degrees

2006: B10’s fin is straightening out.
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B12 Nakwakto M: 1984-2006

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B13 Yaculta M: 1987

B13's fin is total collapsed during the summer of 2006
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B14 Klaskish F: 1991

B14 may have had (and lost) a calf in 2000, but no photo-ID was taken

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B15 Raven M: 1995