The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.
The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“ Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies ,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.
A January 2025 article from the BBC’s Jasmin Fox-Skelly details numerous examples, from an elderly elephant shedding tears and eventually succumbing to grief after an elephant she had befriended died ...
The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...
Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...
A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago was spotted recently in waters off Victoria, B.C., still ...
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 ...
The mother orca that has been carrying her dead calf in the waters of B.C. was spotted earlier this week, making it at least ...
A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass ...