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VIDEO: Puget Sound's new bouncing baby orca

caption: Newborn orca L124, swimming with 90-year-old L25, the oldest member of L Pod, off Vancouver Island on Friday, Jan. 11.
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Newborn orca L124, swimming with 90-year-old L25, the oldest member of L Pod, off Vancouver Island on Friday, Jan. 11.
Courtesy of The Center for Whale Research/Dave Ellifrit

We're getting our first look at the new orca calf recently born to the L pod.

The Center for Whale Research released pictures and video of L-124, no word yet on the sex.

Researchers say it appears to be about three weeks old and was seen bouncing between members of the L pod.

This is the third calf born to the orca known as L-77. Her first was born in 2010 and died the same year, the second is L-119, a female born in 2012.


K-25, a 27-year-old orcawho researchers previously saw to be thin at the end of last summer, remains thin but has not shown anymore decline.

J-17 was observed to be emaciated on New Year's Eve, and the 42-year-old has been observed with a "peanut head," a depression at the base of her skull that can indicate severe fat loss and malnutrition.

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