Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...
Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.
The mother orca known as J35, or Tahlequah, has been seen carrying her deceased calf for at least 11 days, drawing attention ...
The killer whale mother, who made headlines with her display of grief in 2018, has given birth again. But researchers have some worries for her new offspring.
The Center for Whale Research has named the newborn killer whale female J61 Dave Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 ...
Or the infant whale may have simply been unlucky, perhaps catching an infection in the womb that she couldn’t fend off. Whatever the cause, the death of Tahlequah’s daughter is a tragedy for ...
The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.
research director of the Center for Whale Research. The calf born to Tahlequah, known to researchers as J35, was first spotted on December 20 swimming along with J pod in the Puget Sound area for ...
J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.
research director at the Center for Whale Research. Tragically, by New Year’s Eve, the calf was confirmed dead, he said. Researchers have reported as of January 5 that Tahlequah is still carrying the ...
I was struck by two poignant news stories involving animals. One happened on Canada’s West Coast, the other on the East. Juxtaposed, they are starkly different. One says something about the complexity ...