Orphaned orca released to join home pod

Monday, July 15, 2002

HANSON ISLAND, British Columbia -- An orphan orca that wandered into busy Puget Sound last winter bolted off to join her home pod Sunday afternoon after she was released off this remote Canadian island.

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