Episode 5: Tough Love

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Killers: J pod on the brink

CBC

6 episodes

8 months ago

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

Killers: J pod on the brink

36 minutes 44 seconds

6 years ago

Episode 5: Tough Love

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 that is mirrored today in aquariums and whale watching. Is our attraction to J pod a killer, or can our love save this family?