Orca Who Carried Her Dead Calf for 17 Days Gives Birth

The goal was to study ways to preserve and restore the local orca population. J61 is Tahlequah’s third baby calf to survive. Her oldest, J47, or “Notch,” was born in 2010, and her second ...
Orca J35 made world headlines in 2018 when she carried her dead baby on her nose for 17 days. Her apparent 1,000-mile tour of ...
A potential new calf would be good news for the dwindling pod of endangered sea creatures. A 31-year-old orca was recently ...
(CNN) — The orca who swam with her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent act of grieving recently gave birth to a new baby, according to Michael Weiss, research director of the Center for Whale ...