The birth of a healthy female calf is crucial ... especially Chinook salmon. Mother orca Tahlequah, orca J35, shocked the world back in August 2018 by carrying her dead calf, which lived only ...

The encounter near the U.S. San Juan Islands east of Victoria showed orca calf J62 — earlier confirmed to be a female — ...

The Center for Whale Research confirmed Sunday that the new orca calf ... The calf’s birth was confirmed in late December, and within a week, the calf died. The mother, Tahlequah, gained ...

They identified J-41 as the baby orca’s likely mother a couple of weeks ... The grieving mother, Tahlequah, then carried her dead calf’s body, McClatchy News reported. Tahlequah famously ...