SEATTLE (AP) — A gray whale appears to be OK one day after he was attacked by a pod of orcas.
Howard Garrett of the Orca Network says the gray whale was spotted today swimming with other gray whales.
He’s a male whale named “Patch” and has frequented Puget Sound for the past 19 years.
Whale watchers caught a rare sight Sunday of a pod of transient killer whales attacking the gray whale. These killer whales eat mammals and are different from the endangered Puget Sound orcas that eat salmon.
Garrett says there have been three other reports of resident orcas attacking gray whales in Puget Sound. He says it’s very unusual.
