Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.
As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for ...
As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there’s no ...
The pace of salmon recovery work — and difficulty in funding these complex projects — is hindering our ability to recover ...
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...
While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...
A 400-pound, 7-foot-long, orange-and-black newborn may have already set the record for Kitsap’s largest baby of the year, but ...
Animals such as elephants, whales, and crows have been known to exhibit behaviors that seem to be mourning the death of a ...
Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when a companion dies.
Tragically, by New Year’s Eve, the calf was confirmed dead, he said ... and struggles for survival within exclusively fish-eating killer whale communities in the northeast Pacific Ocean can ...
Tragically, by New Year’s Eve, the calf was confirmed dead, he said. Researchers have reported as ... Unsuccessful pregnancies and struggles for survival within exclusively fish-eating killer whale ...