A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse along with her for more than two weeks in a ...
J61’s birth was of symbolic importance to the region. Her mother was Tahlequah, who 2018 carried her dead calf 1,000 miles ...
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 ...
The nature photographer had gone out looking for J61 to confirm she was still alive. “I yelled out to others on the beach, ...