Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.
The Center of Whale Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) witnessed the mother carrying her deceased child on her nose across Puget Sound. Scient ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.
There was some good news for the J pod, however: another new calf, J62, was observed alive by officials and scientists. Southern resident orcas are endangered, and distinct from other killer whales ...
The new calf has been identified as J62. Researchers do not yet know J62's gender or who J62's mother is. Southern resident killer whales are the only endangered population of killer whales in the ...
The killer whale calf was spotted in the Puget Sound area off Washington state several days ago. On Tuesday, the center determined J35, also known as Tahlequah, was the baby's mother. The calf ...
Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...
The calf was reported to have died around New Year’s Eve and the mother was seen pushing the remains, just as she had done in ...
Researchers said J35, also known as Tahlequah, was spotted Jan. 10 in Haro Strait off San Juan Island with the body of her ...
Mother orca Tahlequah is continuing to carry her burden of grief: a dead calf that she now has been refusing to let go of for ...
A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass ...