Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.
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 ...
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...
by Karina Vargas, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — The mother orca known ... In 2018, she carried another calf's body for 17 days. Researchers believe this is her way of grieving.
For at least 11 days, a mother killer whale has been carrying the body of her dead newborn calf. Only a handful of days old, ...
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 known as J35, or Tahlequah, has been seen carrying her deceased calf for at least 11 days, drawing attention ...
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Calf mortality is high: Only about 1 in 5 orca pregnancies ... have been observed carrying dead calves, Weiss said, “but certainly not for as long as J35 carried her calf in 2018.” ...