Vancouver Island is one of the best places in the world to see orca...

🖤 Did you know orcas can be found in all three of Canada’s oceans, but are most common off the southern coast of B.C.? This iconic marine mammal communicate through a range of clicks, whistles, pulsed calls, squeals, squeaks and screams. 🎵 Take a listen. | WWF-Canada

The language of the Orca. *Sound on - Orca Vocalisations* In the deep fjords and kelp-fringed passages of Northeast Vancouver Island, the Northern Resident orcas speak in voices older than memory. Their calls, squelches, whistles, and pulsed cries, are not random sounds, but ancestral songs passed down through matrilines like sacred heirlooms. Each pod carries its own dialect, a signature woven from generations of echo and experience. Ahlé, a call of greeting. Kéé, a warning. Some sounds are pla