The 60-year-old matriarch of the 'J35' orcas, appears with shotgun pellet impacts on her fin
The Government is opening an investigation and is making contact with Portugal, where initial information suggests he was shot.
On August 10, a team of scientists spotted Toñi, the oldest matriarch of the Iberian orca population and guardian of decades of wisdom that she transmits to her group, swimming with two companions through the Strait of Gibraltar. She had not been seen there for two years. It was at that moment that they detected that she had marks on her dorsal fin compatible with shots from a shotgun.
Once analyzed, they have no doubt that she received 10 impacts and that some continue to be lodged in her fin, which poses a risk of infection. Toñi, also known as La Abuela, is no ordinary orca: she is 60 years old and is also the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother of the known gladis, the specimens that have starred in controversial encounters with boats since May 2022.
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