THE “world’s loneliest orca” who has been trapped in a tiny pool for 32 years is experiencing the "worst form of torture", experts claim. A devastating video shows Kshamenk barely able to ...
The Center for Whale Research has named the newborn killer whale female J61 Dave Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 ...
The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given birth to a new calf, scientists said. The mama orca, named J35 by ...
The mother orca, called Tahlequah or J35, has been observed carrying the lifeless body of her female calf since Wednesday, according to the Washington state-based Centre for Whale Research in a ...
Orcas, or killer whales, also adopted a bizarre behavior ... With ample access to salmon during that period, orcas may have felt less urgency to focus solely on hunting and instead indulged ...
Weiss says we can never truly know what she is feeling. “We know that the bond between killer whale mothers and their offspring is incredibly strong, about as strong as a social bond can be ...
The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...