orca watching, and hiking. What to Read Before You Go: Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands (Harbour, 2008). Quadra native and historian Jeanette Taylor traces the rugged history of ...

Especially intriguing to Darren is that female orca go through something like the menopause - an extremely rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, only documented in just five species of toothed whales ...

In the footage, a female orca leads the lesson, demonstrating how to pull the seal off the ice by its tail, as the calves watch and learn. She lets the seal escape, and after it jumps back on the ...