There’s no point, she says, “since my subject is so rare now.” These days, when Ms. Morton stayed on, supporting her work by writing articles and books, designing T-shirts and working as a deckhand on a fishing boat.
Her husband drowned in 1986, when Jarret was 4, but Ms. Using a hydrophone, an underwater microphone she hung from the boat, she recorded their vocalizations and began to recognize what she called the dialects of the clans. She knew she would find them in Fife Sound at the ebb tide, or moving up Johnson Strait with the incoming tide. She came to know the archipelago’s long-lived orca clans and the matriarchs who led them. She and her husband, Robin Morton, a Canadian filmmaker, lived on a 65-foot sailboat and followed the orcas in an inflatable boat with a shelter in the back, stocked with Legos and books for their son, Jarret. In 1984, 26 years old and armed only with a bachelor’s degree and enthusiasm for her task, she moved to the Broughton Archipelago, in the Queen Charlotte Strait of British Columbia, where the whales, or orcas, were abundant. But instead of chimpanzees, her animals would turn out to be killer whales.
ECHO BAY, British Columbia Growing up in Connecticut, Alexandra Hubbard did not want to be Joan of Arc.
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