Newborn orca calf J62 was spotted swimming alongside family members near British Columbia in photos released yesterday by the ...

The grieving whale was most recently spotted carrying her daughter, who died on New Year's Eve, in Haro Strait on Jan. 10 ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook ...

was described by the Center for Whale Research as "healthy and precocious, swimming vigorously alongside its mother in its second day of free-swimming life." Per the Orca Conservancy, J61 is ...

The Center for Whale Research did not specify what sparked the concern, but the Seattle-based Orca Conservancy wrote on social media last year that researchers believed J61 was born prematurely.

Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf, who the Center for Whale Research discovered the calf on Friday, Dec. 20, and given the alpha-numeric designation J61 ...

Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...

ALSO SEE: J pod orca who pushed dead calf for 1,000 miles ... During its census in July 2024, the Center for Whale Research counted just 73 Southern Resident orcas, which is down from 75 orcas ...

Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.

The bittersweet New Year’s Day visit to central Puget Sound by J and K pods revealed both a new, apparently healthy calf had ...

Only a handful of days old, the female calf was confirmed dead on New Year's Eve. The next day, the southern resident orca ...

Researchers say this behavior is a sign of grief. Dr. Deborah Giles, science and research director at Wild Orca, said, "It does strike a chord within us because we can relate to her as a grieving ...