This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

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 ...

Tahlequah the mother orca is once again carrying a dead calf, researchers said, as she did in 2018 in a 17-day, 1,000-mile tour that shocked the region and world. “It’s heartbreaking to see ...

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 ...