For more than a thousand miles, a Southern Resident killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf on a ...

Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

the orca's favorite food. Researchers are worried for Tahlequah herself. While she mourns, she isn’t foraging and is expending a great deal of energy on carrying her dead calf. After her ordeal ...

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...

The dorsal fin of the orca known as J35, or Tahlequah, is seen above the ocean surface as she pushes her dead newborn calf, J61, with her snout on Jan. 1. (NOAA Fisheries) Researchers expressed ...

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 like humans.

Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.

NOAA Fisheries West Coast An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days. Tahlequah (who is also known as her alpha-numeric designation, J35) previously made ...

The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it over her head and gripping ... generally stay near British Columbia and Washington state, though some swim north to Alaska and south to ...

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

Here's where she and her deceased calf have been spotted. An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for more than two weeks is doing so ...