Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.

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The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Five decades ago, a 4-year-old orca was captured in Penn Cove and sold to the Miami Seaquarium, where she received the name “Lolita.” She performed about twice daily until 2022, then remained at the ...

Dec. 20, reports of a new orca baby had been spotted with J-pod. Over that weekend, the weather turned stormy, and the dark ...

The entire team at the Center for Whale Research is deeply saddened by this news and we will continue to provide updates when we can.” ...

Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.

Credit: NOAA Fisheries An endangered orca is carrying a dead calf around on her head in a tragic repeat of behavior that made headlines six years ago. Tahlequah, or J35, became famous in 2018 for ...