Orca known for ramming boats spotted with suspected gunshot wounds

Conservation groups say shooting at the animals ‘can never be acceptable’

Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had been shot by a pelle

The orca known as Toñi was spotted off Cadiz, southern Spain , with holes in its dorsal fin, which whale conservation charities have identified as gunshot wounds.