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 ...
These animals don’t frequently wash up on Huntington Beach’s shores. Agencies are looking into the cause of death of the ...
A young humpback whale that died, presumably, after it became trapped in a commercial mussel-farming line off Long Beach, Ca.
The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.
The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“ Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies ,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief ...
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.
The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...
As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there’s no ...
Just days before the vote, Tahlequah (J35), the Southern Resident orca who made global headlines in 2018 after she carried ...
A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass ...
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...