Orca calf stranded in Canadian lagoon for more than a month swims out [Video]

Around 2:30 a.m. the approximately 2-year-old orca named Kʷiisaḥiʔis swam past the sand bar her mother died on and out of Little Espinosa Inlet. 

“After an evening of feeding her, the team … [was] treated to a long night of kʷiisaḥiʔis breaching and playing at the end of the lagoon near the causeway bridge,” the Ehattesaht First Nation posted on TikTok. “And after most everyone had left to get some sleep, the small group who remained stood as witnesses to watch her swim under the bridge and down the inlet.”

A team later found Kʷiisaḥiʔis in Espinosa Inlet with the hope she would continue west to open ocean. Kʷiisaḥiʔis translates roughly to mean “brave little hunter.”

The 2-year-old calf has been alone in Little Espinosa Inlet after its pregnant …