Her ensuing search for the whales' families of origin led her to British Columbia, and right into the middle of a contentious fight over salmon farming on Canada's West Coast. And after this happened a couple of times, I realized that I really couldn't study whales in captivity. "But the baby died because the mother didn't know how to nurse it. "In the process … the whales gave birth, which was a remarkable thing to witness," Morton, a researcher for B.C.'s Coast Field Station, told As It Happens host, Carol Off. She says she was drawn to the water by whales and her desire to "figure out what another large-brained animal was thinking."Īs a graduate student, she ensconced herself at a California Marineland, where she made acoustic recordings of a pair of orcas known as Corky and Orky.
Alexandra Morton never planned to study salmon.
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