In 2018, researchers watched as J35 transported her dead calf for 17 days, carrying it over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres). The calf had died shortly after birth, and J35’s tightly bonded pod was seen ...
Tahlequah’s new calf was especially important as it was a female. The birth also was of symbolic importance to the region. Tahlequah is the mother orca who carried her calf that lived only a half-hour ...