Yet another baby orca joins the Puget Sound population
Dec 17, 2015, 1:45 PM | Updated: 1:59 pm
Just weeks after the confirmation of a new baby orca in the Puget Sound, yet another was sighted this month. (NOAA)
(NOAA)
Just weeks after the confirmation of a new baby orca near Seattle, yet another was sighted near San Juan Island.
NOAA and the Center for Whale Research have confirmed the addition to J-pod. It has been named J54. Its sex is unknown. But what is known is that it was born to 28-year-old mother J28. She had also given birth to a baby orca in 2009, named J46.
When baby J54 was first sighted on Dec. 1, it was estimated to be about three weeks old.
With the birth of J54, the total number of new orcas in 2015 is eight.
