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Orca whale mother's 'tour of grief' over after almost 3 weeks

  • by Thibaud Popelin
  • in Monde
  • — Aoû 13, 2018
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The calf was born on July 24 near Victoria, but died shortly after being given life.

But by the time a team from the Centre for Whale Research arrived to take pictures of the newborn, it sadly was no longer alive.

A Southern Resident orca who carried the corpse of her calf for at least 17 days in mourning has released it.

In addition to tugging at heartstrings, the calf's loss was a major blow to the local endangered killer whales' population, which has just 75 orcas.

Balcomb said he also saw J50 with her mother and brother on Saturday, along with NOAA researchers who were following her to collect prey remains and feces.

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Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb said he is immensely relieved to see J35 returning to typical behavior.

Tahlequah is one of two orcas in the pod that scientists have been monitoring.

It says there had been reports "from brief sightings by whale-watchers" two days ago of J35 without her calf in the Georgia Strait near Vancouver.

"J35 frolicked past my window today with other J pod whales, and she looks vigorous and healthy", he told Seattle-based station King 5 in an email. "The carcass has probably sunk to the bottom of these inland marine waters of the Salish Sea, and researchers may not get a chance to examine it for necropsy".

Scientists believe the carcass will be hard to locate at the bottom of the sea.

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