Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died.
The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that first dead calf for 17 days. A female killer whale was observed last week ...
The video was taken last week and posted to Facebook on Tuesday. It was the first sighting of the new calf, who is the ninth addition to the Southern Resident Killer Whales since December 2014. At the ...