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Spot prawn and watermelon feta salad at hot springs cove.

06/05/2024

Ripple has a new baby who drinks a lot of milk and has a lot to learn.
She is skinny, her reserves depleted.

Mother and calf have likely travelled all the way from Hawaii. That’s the breeding ground Ripple is known to have gone to in the past.

She’s come back to a very specific area of our coast. In her case, it’s northeast Vancouver Island. Coming back to where she knows to fish, will hopefully allow her to maximize her catch. That’s the strategy of we human fisher folk too.

This is Ripple’s fifth documented calf since 2011. The other four also all learned to feed in this area.

May knowing about far-travelled, hungry whale mothers and their thirsty, naïve calves motivate greater care for the whales. Boater vigilance is needed year-round to do the right thing to reduce noise and the risk of collision. See www.SeeABlowGoSlow.org.

GREAT thanks to Megan Hockin-Bennett for documenting Ripple and calf. She photographed them from land at OrcaLab. Our friends at OrcaLab are such important allies in better understanding the whales.
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