A pregnant Orca, known as J-32, was discovered dead near Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest in December, 2014. This photograph was made during the necropsy 2 days later. Preliminary data indicates a combination of starvation and toxic anthropogenic pollutants were the cause. When a whale cannot find enough food it begins to metabolize its blubber fat and, as the Northwest killer whales are among the most contaminated marine mammals in the world, the toxic chemicals enter their bloodstream causing serious illness and death.