The heartbreaking anecdote of Tahlequah,the orca mother who wont let go of her dead baby and still clings to its corpse more than a week after losing her newborn, continues to shake the world.
The mourning mother has been spotted carrying around her dead calf for eight straight days now, or in what experts with the Whale Museum on San Juan Island are describing as “a deep grieving process, reports AP News.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the calf was born on July 24 to a family of endangered killer whales living off the coast of Washington state.The infant was initially seen alive and swimming around its mother, and notes the middle for Whale Research in Washington. Unfortunately,the baby orca only survived for about half an hour, dying shortly after being born and right under the gaze of its mother.
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Source: inquisitr.com