Tahlequah, orca and Southern resident killer whales

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...
The killer whale who carried her dead calf around in 2018, J35, better known as Tahlequah, is in mourning again after she ...
Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.