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Researchers project alarming accelerating decline in critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)


The Southern Resident killer whale population will decline slowly for a generation or two before accelerating toward extinction, suggests a model-based population viability analysis accounting for sensitivities to age structure, survival rates, and prey-demography functional relationships.

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