Endangered orca keeping dead calf afloat

what makes sense that they would be somewhere out here this is how Taylor shed has spent most of his waking hours for the past week navigating through the Salish Sea to keep watch on a mother in mourning the southern resident killer whale known as j35 has been pushing and carrying her dead calf with her since July 24th she still has this stress in this pain that she must be going through it doesn't really hit me until I get back to the office late at night and I'm going through the images that she's still going through this eight days on yeah I mean I catch myself at random times like tearing up sheds says whales have been known to carry their dead offspring and it's believed to be part of a grieving process that scientists don't fully understand but to carry it for this long is unprecedented which is why teams from the US and Canada are working to keep watch on the whale and other boats back it's probably a lot more difficult for to forage while she's doing all this as well so we are concerned a little bit of what her body conditioning the whales are tracked by boaters calling in sightings and by audio recordings like this picked up when the pod moves past sound equipment underwater southern resident whales are already closely monitored because they're endangered there are only 75 left this little calf was a girl which would have been really important to this community because she would have been able to reproductively to contribute additional cats so it's sound on so many levels once the mother finally lets the calf go researchers are hoping to retrieve it so they can find out just why she died we spend about 10 or 11 hours on the water day until then shed and the rest of his crew say they will try to track the orca as closely as they can to help a mother who for some reason is not ready to let go breyer stewart cbc news off the coast of Washington State

Channel: CBC News: The National

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Keywords: Orca, dead calf, afloat, endangered, coast, Washington state, J-35, CBC, The National, Briar Stewart

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Length: 2min 3sec (123 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018