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The Southern Resident orca population is down to just 78 members after losing 3 precious lives this year. Had these animals been in captivity, maybe you would have heard of them, or seen something about their death because there would have been numerous tributes and outrage about it on DA and other social media sites because not one of these animals lived to their life expectancy (20-30 years for males, and 40-50 years for females)

But, not a peep for these guys. They are forgotten. So I had to paint something for them, because no one else has.
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This painting represents L100 (Indigo), a 13 year old male, L53 (Lulu), a 37 year old female, and L120, who was the first calf born into the population since August 2012 but unfortunately only lived 7 weeks. 50% of wild orca calves don't make it past their first birthday.

Lulu never contributed a single viable calf in her 37 years alive and her mother, L-7 died in 2010.

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These animals are suffering from starvation, pollution and Vessel noise.

The severe and persistent lack of available prey, salmon (Chinook in particular) is the main issue facing these animals, and they are starving because of it. They are also constantly harassed by boats trying to watch them, which reduces their ability to hunt their already depleted food source, as well as forcing them to expend more energy attempting to evade the following boats, meaning they must eat more food to compensate the additional energy, so their food issue is only intensified.
The only non-invasive way to watch these animals without contributing to their suffering, is to watch them from the shoreline.

On the upside, it looks like J-32, Rhapsody, is pregnant and will have a baby very soon. Lets all hope it survives.

I couldn't find good references for these guys, so they may not actually look like themselves. But they are representations of them.
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Description
The Southern Resident orca population is down to just 78 members after losing 3 precious lives this year. Had these animals been in captivity, maybe you would have heard of them, or seen something about their death because there would have been numerous tributes and outrage about it on DA and other social media sites because not one of these animals lived to their life expectancy (20-30 years for males, and 40-50 years for females)

But, not a peep for these guys. They are forgotten. So I had to paint something for them, because no one else has.
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This painting represents L100 (Indigo), a 13 year old male, L53 (Lulu), a 37 year old female, and L120, who was the first calf born into the population since August 2012 but unfortunately only lived 7 weeks. 50% of wild orca calves don't make it past their first birthday.

Lulu never contributed a single viable calf in her 37 years alive and her mother, L-7 died in 2010.

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These animals are suffering from starvation, pollution and Vessel noise.

The severe and persistent lack of available prey, salmon (Chinook in particular) is the main issue facing these animals, and they are starving because of it. They are also constantly harassed by boats trying to watch them, which reduces their ability to hunt their already depleted food source, as well as forcing them to expend more energy attempting to evade the following boats, meaning they must eat more food to compensate the additional energy, so their food issue is only intensified.
The only non-invasive way to watch these animals without contributing to their suffering, is to watch them from the shoreline.

On the upside, it looks like J-32, Rhapsody, is pregnant and will have a baby very soon. Lets all hope it survives.

I couldn't find good references for these guys, so they may not actually look like themselves. But they are representations of them.
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