An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around has once again been spotted with a deceased newborn on her head in Puget Sound, but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident killer ...
Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.
The Center of Whale Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) witnessed the mother carrying her deceased child on her nose across Puget Sound. Scient ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she carried her dead ... carrying the body of her newborn, just days after researchers confirmed she'd given birth. J35, a southern resident killer whale ...
In fact, killer whales often carry their deceased calves ... she isn’t foraging and is expending a great deal of energy on carrying her dead calf. After her ordeal in 2018, she recovered her ...
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.” ...
The population of southern resident killer whales — three pods of fish ... the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks ... of southern resident killer whales — three pods of fish-eating orcas ...