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 ...
Koala and Curlew are unrelated and possibly pregnant females that have become traveling companions, which is unusual for ...
Researchers said J35, also known as Tahlequah, was spotted Jan. 10 in Haro Strait off San Juan Island with the body of her ...
Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.
A 2017 study published in the journal PLOS One found that nearly 70% of southern resident killer whale pregnancies failed between 2008 and 2014, with one-third of those pregnancy losses occurring ...
They don’t know precisely why the young whale died less than two ... and the stress hormone cortisol in pregnant females. These clues suggest that the orca mothers aren’t getting enough ...
The mother orca known as J35, or Tahlequah, has been seen carrying her deceased calf for at least 11 days, drawing attention ...
Killer whales typically reproduce every five years, giving the mother time to recover from the physical demands of pregnancy and giving birth ... for survival within exclusively fish-eating killer ...
A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...