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Tahlequah (born c. 1998), also known as J35, is an orca of the southern resident community in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She has given birth to four known offspring, a male (Notch) in 2010, a female (Tali) in 2018, another male (Phoenix) in 2020, and an unnamed female calf in 2024.
After the orca had her calf die in 2018, she carried her baby’s body on her back for an unprecedented 17 days and over 1,000 miles, garnering international attention and highlighting the complex ...
Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17 days and over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), is once again displaying a similar ...
It marks the second loss out of four births for Tahlequah, who is approximately 25 years old. Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did.
Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and is grieving the death in a similar way.
In late 2014, J50 Scarlet was born into the J pod; her mother J16 Slick was 42 years old, the oldest recorded age for an orca mother. [64] In August 2018, the pod attracted international attention after the death of a female calf born to J35 Tahlequah, who carried the body for 17 days. [65]
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The orca who swam with her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent ... confidently” assigned Tahlequah as the mother and the baby as alpha-numeric J61, Weiss said to CNN. ... known baby since that ...