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Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah.

Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers ...

NOAA/NMFS NOAA News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images “The death of any calf in the [Southern Resident killer whales] population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly ...

Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

The calf was born in late December. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led ...

Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles.

"It is a concern that she's expending a lot of energy to try to take care of this calf that she's lost," Hanson said. According to the center, the death of any Southern Resident killer whale calf ...

In 2018, the endangered orca known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf for at least 17 days ... By analyzing hormones in southern resident killer whales’ feces, Wasser has helped ...