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 ...

The grieving killer whale mom and her family — Tahlequah has two ... She has been carrying the calf, a female dubbed J61, through the water since it was confirmed dead on New Year’s Eve ...

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

“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 clearl ...

However, the mother and calf were already behaving unusually ... where Tahlequah was observed in 2018. In fact, killer whales often carry their deceased calves with them for around a day before ...

and that its mother was once again carrying the remains of a lost offspring. “The death of any calf in the [Southern Resident killer whale] population is a tremendous loss,” the Center for ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah ... but because J35 has now lost two out of four documented calves. The population of southern resident killer whales — three pods of fish-eating orcas ...

A newborn killer whale calf spotted off the southern coast of WA could be one of the youngest ever seen in Australian waters.