The grieving whale was most recently spotted carrying her daughter, who died on New Year's Eve, in Haro Strait on Jan. 10 ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca famous for carrying her ... had imbued the end of the year with some hope. The calf was female, and the killer whale population is endangered and matrilineal ...

Tahlequah, the killer whale also known as J35 ... Scientists saw the grieving mother with the dead calf draped on top of her head and said that she appeared to dive for it when it sank from ...

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 end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales ... of her mother J35 who ...

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 ...

the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 days in 2018, has likely suffered another loss. Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf ...

However, the mother and calf were already behaving unusually ... where Tahlequah was observed in 2018. In fact, killer whales often carry their deceased calves with them for around a day before ...

Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...

“J35 is an experienced mother, and we hope that she is able to keep J61 alive through these difficult early days.” By the time she finally let the calf go, the killer whale had swum a distance ...