The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...
Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.
They don’t know precisely why the young whale died less than ... hormones in southern resident killer whales’ feces, Wasser has helped show that members of Tahlequah’s species reproduce ...
In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah ...