Sudden deaths among infants in the U.S. are rising, a new study shows. Researchers have found that the mortality rate of ...
The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...
Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago, because I was swimming ...
The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.
In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...
Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.
As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there’s no ...
Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...
The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...
The calf was reported to have died around New Year’s Eve and the mother was seen pushing the remains, just as she had done in ...