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Orca Tahlequah is a mother again
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/orca-tahlequah-is-a-mother-again/Orca Tahlequah is a mother again
Sep. 5, 2020 at 7:08 pm Updated Sep. 5, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Tahlequah, seen when she was still pregnant in July, has given birth to a new calf, two years after she lost her last calf, which lived only one half hour. Tahlequah carried the dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, raising worldwide concern about the plight of the endangered southern resident orcas.
(Southall Environmental Associates collected under NMFS research permit 19091)
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Mother orca Tahlequah has had her baby.
The endangered southern resident killer whale, J35, touched hearts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world in August 2018 when she lost a calf that lived only a half-hour. She carried the calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, refusing to let the calf go.
“It’s fabulous news,” Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, said of the new baby, which he documented Saturday in the San Juan Islands. The gender is not yet known.
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Sep. 5, 2020 at 7:08 pm Updated Sep. 5, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Tahlequah, seen when she was still pregnant in July, has given birth to a new calf, two years after she lost her last calf, which lived only one half hour. Tahlequah carried the dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, raising worldwide concern about the plight of the endangered southern resident orcas.
(Southall Environmental Associates collected under NMFS research permit 19091)
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Mother orca Tahlequah has had her baby.
The endangered southern resident killer whale, J35, touched hearts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world in August 2018 when she lost a calf that lived only a half-hour. She carried the calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, refusing to let the calf go.
“It’s fabulous news,” Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, said of the new baby, which he documented Saturday in the San Juan Islands. The gender is not yet known.
[...]
The endangered southern resident killer whale, J35, touched hearts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world in August 2018 when she lost a calf that lived only a half-hour. She carried the calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, refusing to let the calf go.
“It’s fabulous news,” Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, said of the new baby, which he documented Saturday in the San Juan Islands. The gender is not yet known.