FROM "KILLER" TO "ORCA": A WEST COAST STORY- JASON COLBY

Dr. Jason Colby teaches environmental history at the University of Victoria and gives an entertaining presentation on how the "killer whales" of sensationalized news stories became the beloved orcas of the West Coast and Salish Sea in the 1960s and 1970s. He describes how captured orcas convinced scientists and trainers that they are intelligent beings, and the environmental challenges facing their declining population.