"Tsitika and Her Son - Orcas" by Robert Bateman
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Edition Size: 180 signed and numbered prints; 50 artist's proofs
Image Size: 40" x 30"
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Image Size: 32-1/2" x 15-1/2"
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"We heard the orcas before we saw them. On the boat's hydrophone their squeals, squeaks, whistles and sighs sounded as if they were echoing in a cavernous space. Finally the mist lifted a little and we saw a phalanx of black dorsal fins not too far off - a family pod. Then
the mist swallowed them up again. Perhaps one of the pods we glimpsed
on that magical day of whale watching belonged to a whale that
researchers have named Tsitika, an orca matriarch whose life history
has given me a glimpse into the orca world. Tsitika and her family belong to the northern resident population of British Columbia killer whales. They have a remarkable social system that we are just beginning to understand."
- Robert
Bateman
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