Grieving Mother Orca Carries Dead Calf For More Than A Week, Over Hundreds Of Miles
The calf was the first to be born in the endangered pod of Pacific Northwest killer whales in three years.
A mother orca was still carrying her dead calf in the waters off the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday more than a week after the baby whale died.
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 on San Juan Island. The plight of the mother orca from 98 in 1995 to 75 today.
