Photo Credit: Marcie Callewaert
Photo Credit: Marcie Callewaert
T068/Z2 Yakataga
Photo Credit: Bart Rulon
T068B Phylly
Photo Credit: Brittany Philbin
T068B1A Fern
Photo Credit: Brittany Philbin
T068B1C
Photo Credit: Brendon Bissonnette
T068A Ken
Photo Credit: Photo-identification Catalogue, Population Status, and Distribution of Bigg’s Killer Whales known from Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Canada
T068B1 Obsidian
Photo Credit: Tofino Whale Centre
T068B1B
Photo Credit: Jared Towers
T068B2 Quartz
Current Matriarch: T068, T068B, T068C (Matrilines considered separate due to group splitting)
Number of Individuals: 21 (17 living- 6 female, 1 male, 10 unknown gender ; 4 deceased- 4 unknown gender)
T068/Z2 Yakataga (Female; <1970)
Helped her son, T068A, kill the newborn T046B5 in 2016, possibly in an attempt to get him a breeding opportunity with T046B
T068A Ken (Male; 1984)
Killed newborn T046B5 in 2016 with his mother, T068, possibly in an attempt to force T046B into a state for breeding so that he could breed with her. Possible father of T046B1B
T068B Phylly (Female; 1987)
Matriline has dispersed from the rest of the group
T068B1 Obsidian (Female; 2001)
T068B1A Fern (Unknown; 2013)
Doesn't always travel with the rest of their matriline
T068B1B (Unknown; 2016-~2017? (~1?))
Death year is unknown but is based off of the last known mention of them
T068B1C (Unknown; 2019)
T068B1D (Unknown; 2025)
T068B2 Quartz (Female; 2004)
Doesn't usually travel with her matriline
T068B3 Wilder (Male; 2010)
T068B4 Chiak/Penumbra (Unknown; 2014)
Has freckles in their left eye patch
T068B5 Venture (Unknown; 2019)
T068C Bazan (Female; 1992)
Matriline has dispersed from the rest of the group
T068C1 Sila (Female; 2007)
Live stranded on rocks of Klakas Inlet, Price of Wales Island, BC, in 2013 while hunting a seal
T068C2 Casper (Unknown; 2009-~2012? (~3?))
Was a white whale, like T006 and T004. Was thought to possibly have Chidiak-Higashi Syndrome by Ken Balcomb, but it was later thought that it was just a layer of dead skin. Death year is unknown, but is based off of the last known mention of them
T068C3 Jacobsen (Female; 2012)
T068C3A (Unknown; 2024)
T068C4 Rich (Unknown; 2014)
T068C5 (Unknown; 2020-2024 (4))
T068C6 (Unknown; 2023)
T068D Suckling (Unknown; 1997-~1997? (<~1?))
Death year is unknown, but is based off of the last known mention of them
Photo Credit: Brittany Philbin
T068B3 Wilder
Photo Credit: Brittany Philbin
T068B4 Chiak/Penumbra
Photo Credit: Val Shore
T068C Bazan
Photo Credit: John Forde
T068C1 Sila
Photo Credit: Jean-Yves Daniel
T068C3 Jacobsen
Photo Credit: Marcie Callewaert
T068C3A
Photo Credit: Sara Hysong-Shimazu
T068C4 Rich
Photo Credit: John Forde
T068C5
Photo Credit: Sara Hysong-Shimazu
T068C6
Photo Credit: Transients: Mammal-Hunting Killer Whales of British Columbia, Washington, and Southeast Alaska
T068D Suckling