Killer whale born a year before ill-fated Titanic struck an iceberg [View all]

[Sunlei]

Granny is a matriarch of crowd known as the Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean EcoVentures Whale Watching experts managed to spot her with the help of a marking on her dorsal fin, and a half-moon-shaped notch. In a blog post, they mentioned that 'J2 and her family have foraged and travelled the Georgia Strait' in last some weeks.

According to Simon Pidcock, from the company, J2 has been swimming pretty much non-stop for more than a century. On an average, the Southern Residents travel nearly 72 miles in a 24-hour period. It means that Granny in her lifetime has swum across the world the equivalent of a 100 times.

According to Executive director Michael Harris, J-Pod had come from the coast of California, close to the mouth of the Russian River, where it was seen eight days prior to the Pidcock’s 2014 sighting, which means the pod covered nearly 800 miles in only over a week.

According to a report in UPROXX by Abigail Eastwood, "You know how they say old dogs are the best dogs? That may be true, but do you know what’s even better than an old dog? A super old whale! Despite the fact that SeaWorld has told us most whales only live to be about 30, this majestic, jumping, beauty has exceeded our ill-informed expectations and then some!"

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