If you were to count the most popular whale watching locations worldwide, the UK would not come top of the list. But around the British Isles, several species of marine mammals do make an appearance yearly. Marine mammals like fin whales and porpoises will appear from time to time.
However, Scotland’s West Coast is the native habitat of a resident pod of killer whales: the only killer whales in the UK. Unfortunately, scientists expect that the small pod of just eight individuals is now swimming into extinction.
The pod of Orca (killer whales) has four females and four males. Strangely, there’s been no calf born to the group in the last two decades!
Also, no new dolphins have joined the pod over the years.
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