For more than a thousand miles, a Southern Resident killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf on a ...
The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...
The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...
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Lynda V. Mapes, Tribune News Service The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths ...
The marine mammals do some things, like killing and tossing dead porpoises in the ... groups of over 100 orcas. A female killer whale gives birth to one calf at a time every three to 10 years.
As the killer whales swim together ... Weddell seals are favoured prey, the female killer whale we watch now, known as Marge, and her calf Tickle, have begun spy-hopping a sharp-toothed leopard ...
Beach rubbing, when animals swim close to shore to rub their bellies on smooth pebbles, is thought to help scrape off dead ...
Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...
A newborn killer whale calf spotted off the southern coast of WA could be one of the youngest ever seen in Australian waters.
The documentary tells the story of the last southern resident killer whale held in captivity, and the efforts of two Lummi women to bring the orca home to a net pen sanctuary.