Podcasts by Killers: J pod on the brink
Host Gloria Macarenko delves into our fraught love affair with the iconic and endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales who have become political poster children for climate change. What’s killing J ...
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Episode 5: Tough Love from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s 1964, and J pod ancestor Moby Doll is harpooned and put on display at Vancouver’s waterfront. The crowds are delighted, until he dies. It’s the beginning of a fraught love affair with orcas th...
ListenEpisode 3: Peanut Head from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A family matriarch, J35’s mother, is showing sure signs of peanut head. The experts agree: the Southern Residents are not getting enough fish to eat. But is it as simple as a decline in Chinook sal...
ListenEpisode 2: “Sea of Noises” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
J pod is a poster child in a nation-wrenching debate over a pipeline expansion, and it all comes down to the impact of increased vessel traffic. We take a journey along the noisy west coast waterfr...
ListenKillers: J pod on the brink trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A killer whale mother captivates the world as she carries her dead calf for 17 days. Some call it grief; many say it is a wake-up call for the plight of her endangered pod, and the health of our oc...
ListenEpisode 1: “Tapping Out” from 2019-07-17T20:09
Hope turns to dismay as a new J pod calf dies before researchers arrive. When mother J35 carries its corpse for 17 days and 1000 miles, the world wakes up to the plight of the Southern Residents. S...
ListenKillers: J pod on the brink trailer from 2019-06-25T12:00
A killer whale mother captivates the world as she carries her dead calf for 17 days. Some call it grief; many say it is a wake-up call for the plight of her endangered pod, and the health of our oc...
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