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Researchers Spot Killer Whale Carrying Dead Calf Around for 17 Days- the Reason Left Them Shattered
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.
Orca researchers catch rare glimpse of newborn killer whale off Bremer Bay
A newborn killer whale calf spotted off the southern coast of WA could be one of the youngest ever seen in Australian waters.
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Mother Orca Still Carrying Dead Calf After 11 Days — Over 6 Years After Her First 'Tour of Grief' with Different Baby
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 ...
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Killer whale mom who carried dead calf’s body for weeks seen grieving again
The calf was female, and the killer whale population is endangered and matrilineal, contributing to the gravity of her passing. On a brighter note, the second newborn (J62) appears to be in sound ...
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Orca who carried her dead calf for weeks in 2018 doing so once again
The new calf has been identified as J62. Researchers do not yet know J62's gender or who J62's mother is. Southern resident killer whales are the only endangered population of killer whales in the ...
Killer whales murder great white sharks for their livers
According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...
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Southern Resident orca seen carrying deceased calf once again: what we can learn from Tahlequah’s second tour of grief
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
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Why empathizing with wildlife is essential for conservation
For more than a thousand miles, a Southern Resident killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf on a ...