Since 2013, the southern resident killer whale population has been exhibiting unusual behaviours that are worrying scientists. Strangely enough, this year, J-Pod, one of the three family groups in the population, appears to have deserted the Salish Sea off the coasts of British Columbia and Washington state. Typically observed in this inland sea every month of the year and every week of the summer, the group was not seen in this area for 108 days. So what\u2019s going on with these endangered killer whales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since 2013, the southern resident killer whale population has been exhibiting unusual behaviours that are worrying scientists. Strangely enough, this year, J-Pod, one of the three family groups in the population, appears to have deserted the Salish Sea off the coasts of British Columbia and Washington state. Typically observed in this inland sea every month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":54740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[48,461,536,57,502],"class_list":["post-54943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alimentation-en","tag-changements-climatiques-en","tag-comportement-en","tag-especes-en-peril-en","tag-observation-des-baleines-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n