By Darran Simon, From CNN Source: CNN Whale carries dead calf for more than 10 days 02:54 (CNN) It was a journey of love, driven by a mother’s loss, stretching across a thousand miles of ocean as the world watched and wondered. An apparently grieving female orca whale who swam with the body of her […]
Tour of grief is over’ for killer whale no longer carrying dead calf
‘Granny,’ the oldest known orca presumed dead at 105 years old
BY JOHNNY LIEU From Mashable At an estimated age of 105 years old, the orca known to researchers as “Granny” is presumed to be dead. Labelled J2, she was a member of the Puget Sound orcas which are located in Washington State in the U.S., a small and closely monitored group of the species. Over […]