Famous Grieving Orca Whale Spotted Carrying Body of Her Dead Calf Over Hundreds of Miles for Second Time An orca living in ...

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, ...

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

The southern resident killer whale, known as Tahlequah, has now lost another calf in what the Center for Whale Research called “devastating” news.

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

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

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

Misty MacDuffee, a conservation biologist with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, said in an interview that she is always hopeful when she hears of a new calf being born, but noted southern ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca who became world-famous in 2018 for carrying her dead calf on her head for 17 days and 1,600 ...