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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, ...
Southern Resident orcas face uncertain future despite groundbreaking research efforts
It's a race against the clock for scientists and researchers to learn more about two Southern Resident whale calves and their ...
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Tahlequah the Orca Has Lost Another Calf, and She’s Carrying It With Her Again
In December, news broke that Tahlequah, the orca who famously carried her dead calf for 17 days, had given birth. Sadly, it appears that the new calf has died. The post Tahlequah the Orca Has Lost ...
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A grieving orca carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018. Now she's again carrying the body of her latest child.
In December, the center determined Tahlequah had given birth again, identifying the newborn girl as J61. "New Year's Eve 2024 was a day of extreme highs and lows," the center wrote in a Wednesday ...
Mother Orca Still Carrying Dead Calf After 11 Days — Over 6 Years After Her First 'Tour of Grief' with Different Baby
The grieving whale was most recently spotted carrying her daughter, who died on New Year's Eve, in Haro Strait on Jan. 10 ...
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Researchers Believe Mother Orca Known for Grieving 2018 Newborn's Death Has Lost Another Calf
The Center for Whale Research first became aware of the new calf, named J61, on Dec. 20 Maya Sears, NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him ...
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Mother orca Tahlequah who once carried dead calf 1,000 miles is grieving the loss of another newborn
Her newest calf, a female known as J61 to researchers, was first spotted on December 20 in the Puget Sound area on Washington state’s northwest coast by members of the public. The National Oceanic and ...
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Orca mom seen mourning latest dead calf in same heartbreaking way she did in 2018, new photos reveal
The baby, J61, an endangered Southern Resident killer whale, only lived about a week and has been dead for several days, according to officials. It marks the second loss out of four births for ...
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Orca who carried dead calf’s body for weeks has lost another offspring
The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...
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Southern Resident orca whale again carries her dead calf through Puget Sound-area waters
On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35 ...
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Endangered orcas’ circle of life: one baby dies, another is born
They mistakenly believed it was J61, the newest member of the Northwest’s endangered killer whales. She had not been seen for nearly a week. On Dec. 24, researchers had expressed concern that ...
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Orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles has a new baby
The calf, a girl, was given the designation J61. It's not all good news for the mom and baby though. "The team, including multiple experienced killer whale researchers, have expressed concern ...