The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...

Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.

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 ...

the Center for Whale Research confirmed orca J35 Tahlequah birthed new calf J61. However, the report is bittersweet as researchers voiced their concerns for its survival. SR3 SeaLife Response ...

Whale watchers were relieved to see a baby orca off the Kitsap Peninsula’s Point No Point Monday afternoon. They mistakenly believed it was J61, the newest member of the Northwest’s endangered ...

J35 is an experienced mother, and we hope that she is able to keep J61 alive through these difficult early days,” the post read.According to Orca Conservancy on X, worrying behavior had been ...

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.

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 ...