One of Washington’s beloved Southern Resident Orcas is breaking hearts across the world again. In 2018, Tahlequah garnered ...
Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers ...
In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water.
Mr. Hanson said on Thursday that he did not know why the female calf, who lived for a few days during the last weeks of ...
Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...
An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around has once again been spotted with a deceased newborn on her head in Puget Sound, but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident killer ...
The animal, known to scientists as Tahlequah, carried the body of another deceased newborn for 17 days in 2018.
The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that first dead calf for 17 days.
Orca researchers hope the Southern Resident population can grow to 80 to 90 whales in the next 50 years, which experts say will help them breathe a sigh of relief.
The orca who captured global attention in 2018 by carrying her deceased calf for 17 days has faced another heartbreaking loss.