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 Dec. 24. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led them to ...

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...

In 2018, an orca mother refused to abandon her dead calf. Instead, she pushed its body for 17 days. Now she is doing it again ...

Another healthy calf has joined her endangered pod of about 70 members. Orca J35 (Tahlequah) carries carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle (Credit: NOAA Fisheries ...

The center's research director, Michael Weiss, estimated that only 50% of orca calves survive their first year.The center described the death of J35's calf as particularly devastating — not only ...