CNN —A team of rescuers are working to save an orca calf that has been stranded for nearly two weeks in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island, off the west coast of Canada.
Cottrell explained crews have tried multiple methods to get the calf to leave the lagoon on its own, including “acoustic playbacks” – playing the sounds of other orca whales.
Moving the orca calf “will require a lot of patience as well as cooperation from the whale,” Bay Cetology added.
This isn’t the first time officials in Canada have strategized to rescue a solitary and stranded orca calf.
In 2002, an orca calf who came to be named Springer was spotted alone in Puget Sound, prompting an extensive capture and relocation effort.
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