Tahlequah and the rest of her J pod crew also often travel back this way in winter, heading east in the strait then to the Strait of Georgia, almost to the Campbell River. But there’s no telling ...

Born in 1998, Tahlequah is the matriarch of a sub-group of the J Pod that has a very wide range. They travel between the northwestern United States and southern Canada in the Pacific Ocean ...

Scientists believe Tahlequah is expressing grief by continuing to push the calf's body, a behavior that expends valuable energy. While other orcas have been observed carrying their dead ...

This was not the mother’s first time losing a child. In 2018, the endangered orca known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf for at least 17 days, traversing more than 1,000 miles of ...