Bare Facts: Female ~ Born est.1953 ~ Died 2001 ~ Mother Eve? ~ Father Unknown ~ Children Havannah, Sonora ~ ID Nick near top of fin; sharp point; thick base with thin tip

Licka was born around 1953. Because she was fully grown at the beginning of the study, we aren't entirely sure who her mother is. We suspect her mother was Eve (A9), making Top Notch (A5) and Foster (A26) her younger brothers.
When her pod was captured, in 1968 and 1969, Licka would have been 15-16. She survived the captures (she was one of the lucky ones), but it is entirely possible that she lost a sister, or a calf of her own. That's the age many whales have their first calves, and some captive whales have been suspected to be Licka's lost calf.
Although Licka probably had calves prior to the study, it seems they didn't survive, so we don't know about them.
When Licka was twenty-one, and the study was starting its second year, she had her first known calf, Havannah (A28). Six years later, when she was twenty-seven, she had her second daughter, Sonora (A42).
For some reason, Licka didn't have any more calves after that, though she still could have for at least another ten years.
For eleven years, Licka's family consisted of her and her two daughters. They often traveled with Licka's presumed birth pod, the A9s. In 1990, Licka lost her probable mother, when Eve died. Then, in 1991, at the age of eleven, Sonora became a young mother, giving birth to Kelkpa (A57).
Sadly, Licka's first grandchild would die five years later from a bacterial infection.
The year after Kelkpa's death, Sonora gave birth again, to Surf (A66), the first known male born into the matriline.
In 2000, Licka' younger brother Top Notch died as well. And in 2001, the last of her birthpod, brother Foster, died. The same year, Licka herself disappeared and was declared dead.
Sadly, the old matriarch never met her latest grandchild, A79, who was born in 2004.
Licka was 48 when she died. She could have lived longer, but that's the normal lifespan for a female orca. She was identified by the nick near the top of her fin (she may have been the 'wide-nicked cow' known by early researchers), and also by the faded front of her saddle patch.