The Orca Mother Who Carried Her Calf for 17 Days — A Journey of Grief and Love Beneath the Waves
A Story That Stopped the World In July 2018, off the misty coast of Washington’s San Juan Islands, scientists from the Center for Whale Research noticed something that left them silent. An orca mother, later identified as J35 — known to the world as Tahlequah — had given birth to a calf that survived for …