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Cracroft
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Plumper
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Kaikash
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A32
1964
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A37
1977
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A46
1982
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are the A36s? |
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Our
knowledge of the A36 family goes back to 1970,
when an adult female with a severely damaged
dorsal fin was one of the first orcas identified
in the Johnstone Strait area. Called "Tulip"
for the look of her fin & later "Stubb",
she was given the designation "A1",
i.e. the first identified member of the first
identified orca family. When A1 died in 1974
the matriarch of the family became her daughter
Sophia, A36, and the family became known as
"the A36s". Eventually, in 1997, Sophia
died. Today, the family consists of three brothers,
A32 (Cracroft), A37 (Plumper) and A46 (Kaikash).
Huge males with distinct dorsal fins and voices,
they are an unmistakable presence in the "core
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