SOCIAL MEDIA CAPTURES KILLER WHALE

The famous killer whale known as ‘Dopey Dick’ – who sparked widespread attention when he swam up the river Foyle into Derry in pursuit of salmon in 1977 – has at last been identified, thanks to photographs published on social media. Nearly four decades later, experts from the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust recognised the whale from old photographs uploaded to a Facebook page as Comet – a member of the highly vulnerable West Coast Community of killer whales, the UK’s only known resident population of killer whales.