Nearly 70% of pregnancies in the Southern Resident orca population, which Tahlequah and her offspring belong to, result in spontaneous abortions or very early deaths, Weiss said. Unsuccessful ...

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

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

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

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 ...

The beautiful orca is then struck back to the tiny pool ... "We typically see high mortality rates and stress-related causes of death in captive whales and dolphins." It added: "These animals ...

Researchers said J35, also known as Tahlequah, was spotted Jan. 10 in Haro Strait off San Juan Island with the body of her ...

For at least 11 days, a mother killer whale has been carrying the body of her dead newborn calf. Only a handful of days old, ...

In “Encounters with the Archdruid,” his narration of David Brower’s battles with developers, John McPhee writes: “[P]ossibly the reaction to dams is so violent because rivers are the ...