cetaceans in the world—not just in the Pacific Northwest, but in Alaska as well—the more we learn about these highly social animals, the more we realize how little we actually know. All told, there are over 900 of these animals in the North Pacific, including about 80 Southern Residents from the Salish Sea, 200 Northern Residents from northern Vancouver Island, about 500 resident whales in the Gulf of Alaska, and another 100 or so elsewhere in southeastern Alaska. Highly stable social creatures, their communications are sophisticated, gregarious, and enduringly mysterious. Their fish-eating
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