Morton also discovered that orcas invented games to distract themselves. The calls became raspy as the whale vocalized day and night. The young mother lay on the bottom of the tank repeating the same call over and over, stopping only to gulp another breath of air.
However, that baby died and none of their other babies survived more than 45 days.įollowing the death of each of the little whales, Morton recorded from Corky a behaviour that could only be described as mourning. She was interested in studying how baby orcas picked up new language. Morton observed the pair when the female gave birth to the first orca conceived in captivity. When she realized there were too many individuals and that bottlenose dolphins are too quick to record their behaviour, Morton decided to shift her study toward Marineland’s pair of orcas, Orky and Corky, whom she had previously called "boring" because they spent long periods of time just floating while calling back and forth to each other. Morton studied the communications of dolphins at Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, California. In 1997, Morton became a Canadian citizen while keeping her American citizenship. Morton decided to continue her study alone. In 1986, her husband drowned after his diving equipment failed. Hubbard married Canadian wildlife filmmaker Robin Morton in 1981. She then graduated Magna cum Laude from American University with a two-year Bachelor of Science diploma. She catalogued 2,000 audio recordings of bottlenose dolphins. Lilly as a volunteer in the Human/Dolphin Society. In 1977, she started working with psychonaut John C. Hubbard said that her passion for animals came from exploring the woods with her brother. In her memoir, Listening to Whales, she said of her birthplace, "I can't imagine a more whaleless environment." Her father was an artist and her mother, a writer. Alexandra Bryant Hubbard was born on Jin Lakeville, Connecticut, United States.
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