A pod of killer whales has been spotted far offshore from the remote Vancouver Island inlet where an orphaned orca has been spending time since escaping a lagoon last month, but a member of her rescue team is downplaying the prospect of an imminent family reunion.
The sighting of a pod of nine orcas occurred Monday in waters off Kyuquot Sound, about 80 kilometres southeast of the inlet where the two-year-old female calf has been seen.
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The calf eluded her would-be rescuers and eventually escaped the lagoon on her own on April 26 by swimming through a narrow channel and into Little Espinosa Inlet
Towers said there had been other instances where young orcas had lost contact with their family pods off B.C., survived on their own for long periods, before eventually reuniting with their families.
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