An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...
Tahlequah, an orca well-known for having carried her dead calf for over two weeks back in 2018, has been struck by a ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...
Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.
The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it over her head and gripping its tiny fin with her teeth, to stave off the inevitable.
The same southern resident orca that famously carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 has lost another one. Marine biologists fear inbreeding is weakening the endangered pod of some 30 orcas ...
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.
An orca that made headlines for carrying a dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 is doing it again after the death of her new calf.
The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the ...
Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...
A southern resident orca is once again carrying her deceased baby's body through the water. Researchers are concerned about the future of this orca mother and her species.