Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.
Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.
Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17 days and over 1,000 miles ... the distance and time that she carried her newborn in ...
The killer whale, known as Tahlequah, has been spotted carrying the body of her dead calf, echoing her display of grief from ...
Calf mortality is high: Only about 1 in 5 orca pregnancies result in a calf ... Other southern resident orcas have been observed carrying dead calves, Weiss said, “but certainly not for as long as J35 ...
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...
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 ...
The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago, because I was swimming ...
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 ...
Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...