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 ...

The grieving whale was most recently spotted carrying her daughter, who died on New Year's Eve, in Haro Strait on Jan. 10 ...

The cute calf was spotted traveling with its mother and other members of the ... between Washington state and British Columbia. Killer whales have strong social ties and continue to help their ...

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 killer whale also known as J35 ... Scientists saw the grieving mother with the dead calf draped on top of her head and said that she appeared to dive for it when it sank from ...

26 (UPI) --The killer whale that carried her dead calf on ... and confidently determine who the mother of a calf is," the center said in a Facebook post. Related Orca splashes poop into audience ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales ... of her mother J35 who ...

Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...

“As with last time, I think it’s enough to recognize how strong the mother-calf bond is in killer whales (among the strongest social relationships in any animal), and to see that she is clearly not ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca famous for carrying her ... had imbued the end of the year with some hope. The calf was female, and the killer whale population is endangered and matrilineal ...