![]() Through the amazing story of these two "orphan" whales, Operation Orca tells the larger story of orcas in the Pacific Northwest, the people who have studied them and the transformation of the whale's image from killer to icon. Over the winter of 2000-2001, 5 members of L-Pod disappeared, considerably more than the typical mortality rate of one or two animals per year. ![]() In Operation Orca, winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Nature Book of the Year award, author Daniel Francis and long-time Vancouver Aquarium staff member Gil Hewlett give breadth to the complications, contradictions, and political posturing that twice engulfed the debate of whether to interfere or let nature take its course. Abstract: This case examines the multiple discourses (identities) created around Luna, a lone juvenile orca (or killer whale, Orcinus orca) in the remote. Gold River received tremendous media coverage worldwide in July 2001 when Luna the Killer Whale became a media sensation when he turned up in Nootka Sound after being separated from his pod in Puget Sound in Washington. L98 was re-sighted alone in July 2001 in Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. Another rescue was planned to return Luna to his family but this time there was no happy ending. L98 (Luna) was first sighted in 1999 and A73 (Springer) in 2000 as their natal. The people of Nootka Sound adopted "Luna" as their own, but he was a large, boisterous youngster who liked to cuddle boats and the government feared he would get into trouble. Determining that the whale would not survive alone so far from home, a team of scientists captured "Springer" and transported her by boat north to her home range where she rejoined her family.Īt the same time Springer was making her historic journey, another lone whale turned up in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In January 2002, a young killer whale was discovered alone in the waters of Puget Sound near Seattle. The people of Nootka Sound adopted Luna as their own, but he was a large. Over the years, attitudes have begun to change, and orcas are now revered as loveable, intelligent creatures and iconic symbols of the marine environment. Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales. In 1964 when the Vancouver Aquarium obtained its first killer whale, Moby Doll, the prevalent attitudes towards killer whales was that they were fierce and vicious man-eaters. Winner of Foreword Magazine's Best Nature Non-Fiction Award. Foreword Magazine Nature Book of the Year (2008)
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