8/8/2018
NOAA has mounted an emergency rescue plan for the young whale, J50, who is emaciated and may also have an infection. The agency submitted ...
More than two weeks since her newborn calf died, the killer whale known to researchers as J-35 has been spotted again Wednesday still carrying the ...
Michael Milstein, a spokesman with NOAA Fisheries, said researchers on Wednesday spotted the 20-year-old whale known as J-35 carrying her dead ...
@FishOceansCAN saw the whales in the ocean off the tip of the Olympic Peninsula, just out of reach of researchers #Q13FOX pic.twitter.com/ ...
8/4/2018
These whales contend with a host of stresses — pollution, development and industrial marine noise, to cite a few — but their main problem is ...
A Washington State artist's painting of J-35 — the southern resident killer whale that has been keeping its dead calf afloat for over a week — has struck ...
The infant was initially seen alive and swimming around its mother, notes the Center for Whale Research in Washington. We are saddened to report ...
by Joe Gaydos. Chief Scientist, SeaDoc Society. For the last nine days, a female Southern Resident Killer Whale has been carrying her dead calf ...
8/3/2018
So, so sad… Last month, the baby of an orca whale, known as J-35, died half an hour after its birth, according to the New York Times. According to the ...
If you need a good cry today, you should know that there is an orca that humans have dubbed J35 — a killer whale from a species that is endangered ...
Unfortunately, many populations of these giant salmon are endangered or threatened, a reality which is having disastrous ripple effects on this whale ...
The orca whale whose calf died just minutes after it was born is still carrying the body through the waters of the Pacific Northwest, 10 days after her ...
Not just ourselves, but the nation and world have followed daily updates for longer than a week of a killer whale mother keeping the body of her dead ...
8/2/2018
Southern resident orca J35 or Tahlequah is seen carrying her newborn calf, which scientists presume is dead. Photo credit Soundwatch / The Whale ...
8/1/2018
VICTORIA — A female killer whale that was seen pushing the body of its newborn calf after it died last week appears in good health and is getting help ...
The orca whale who first made waves recently for carrying her dead calf for days after the calf died is apparently still doing it, according to a researcher ...
By Bethan Staton, news reporter. Researchers are concerned for the welfare of a female orca whale who has carried her dead calf for more than week.
And now there is a poem. It's for the mother orca whale who, for over a week, has been pushing the corpse of a baby she hardly even knew (it only ...
In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after ...
Whale researchers are keeping close watch on an endangered orca that has spent the past week keeping her dead calf afloat in Pacific Northwest ...
7/31/2018
For a brief moment last week, just off the coast of southwestern Canada, the typically grim outlook confronting orcas took on a hopeful hue. A whale ...
The calf was the first to be born in the endangered pod of killer whales in three years, says Jenny Atkinson, executive director of The Whale Museum ...
Experts at the Whale Museum on San Juan Island have been monitoring the 20-year-old killer whale, known as J35, since her calf died shortly after ...
7/30/2018
An endangered Orca that spends time off the US north-west coast is still carrying the corpse of her calf one week after it died. Experts with the Whale ...
Experts with the Whale Museum on San Juan Island have been monitoring the 20-year-old whale, known as J35, since her calf died shortly after birth ...
She retrieves the dead calf when it falls, researchers with the Center for Whale Research said. She was spotted Monday still carrying her offspring.
Her entire family is also staying close by with her," said Taylor Shedd, of Soundwatch, who has been keeping daylight vigils with the whale all week.
7/28/2018
A mourning orca whale continued carrying her dead calf for a fifth straight day Saturday. J35, or Tahlequah, was seen at 3:15 p.m. in Canadian waters.
People around the world have been watching the grieving whale and her family, members of the critically endangered southern resident orcas.
A killer whale has been spotted carrying the body of its newborn calf more than a day after the baby died in waters off Canada's west coast.
In a heartbreaking display of maternal grief, an endangered killer whale swam off the coast of the Pacific Northwest with her dead calf for more than ...
Heart-breaking photos showing a killer whale pushing her dead calf around daysafter she gave birth have been shared online. The mother was ...
According to the Center for Whale Research, the calf was born on July 24th. Within hours, however, it died. “As the body sank into the water,” wrote AJ ...
The mother killer whale, named J35 by researchers, gave birth on Tuesday in what was initially a hopeful moment. Mother and female calf were seen ...
Footage emerged online from the Centre for Whale Research showing the distressed mother carrying her calf's body around after it died almost ...
A mother killer whale's grief has left her carrying her dead calf for four days and separated from the rest of her pod. The calf – born to a Southern ...
7/27/2018
A grieving orca whale has been carrying her dead newborn calf for days in a heart-wrenching scene off the coast of Victoria, British Columbia.
The mother whale, named J35 by researchers, gave birth Tuesday in what was initially a hopeful moment. Mother and female calf were seen ...
Southern Resident killer whales, which consist of three different pods, generally stay near British Columbia and Washington State, though some swim ...
The Center for Whale Research, which tracks and researches the Southern Resident whale population in the eastern Pacific Ocean, first noted the calf ...
The orca–part of a group of whales that researchers have dubbed, “the southern resident family of orcas,” and called “critically edangered”–carried the ...
7/26/2018
“It is just absolutely gut-wrenching to watch,” said Taylor Shedd, program coordinator of Soundwatch, who has followed the whale nearly continuously ...
VANCOUVER—A female killer whale has been carrying her newborn calf on her forehead for at least two days in the waters near Victoria B.C..
A female killer whale who was seen pushing the corpse of its short-lived offspring off the west coast of Canada is a sign of things to come, experts said ...
A mother whale has kept her baby afloat for days. The newborn orca was born near Victoria, British Columbia, Tuesday and died shortly afterward, ...
A critically endangered southern-resident killer whale whose calf died shortly after birth was seen carrying its baby for hours on Wednesday off the ...
A female killer whale was spotted in the waters off Vancouver Island for two days this week pushing the body of her newborn calf. Ken Balcomb, senior ...
When we were watching, all the rest of the whales were separated by a distance, and ... “Same thing, it was hours and hours,” she said of that whale.
This group of orcas (Orcinus orca), also called the southern resident killer whales, visits Puget Sound every year from spring to fall, and was listed as ...
The grieving mother of an orca whale has continued to carry her dead newborn around on her back for two days, something researchers say is ...
7/25/2018
Whale watchers must stay 200 metres away from B.C. orcas under new ... Another researcher, Deborah Giles, who was out studying the whales had ...
The first calf born in three years to the endangered orcas that spend time in Pacific Northwest waters died Tuesday, the latest troubling sign for a ...
A dead whale was seen being pushed to the surface by her mother just a half hour after it was spotted alive in the waters off the coast of Victoria, ...