{"id":150324,"date":"2025-09-17T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150324\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:13:18","slug":"southern-resident-orca-mother-seen-pushing-deceased-calf-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150324\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern resident orca mother seen pushing deceased calf &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Washington State have confirmed a sad outcome for a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/southern-resident-orca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">southern resident orca<\/a> mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758044768_711_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Whale Research says they were able to confirm that southern resident J36, a member of J Pod, was seen pushing a deceased calf in Rosario Strait on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Staff said that the umbilical cord was still attached.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the size of the calf, they say it could have been born either full term or near full term, but it was unclear if it was a stillbirth, or if the calf died shortly after birth.<\/p>\n<p>They estimated the calf was born in the previous three days before the sighting.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Orca who carried dead calf in B.C. waters gives birth again'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WEB_0907_NN_J35.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:46<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrca who carried dead calf in B.C. waters gives birth again\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that an orca mother from this pod has been seen carrying a deceased calf.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>J35, known by the nickname Talequah, is a member of the southern resident killer whale J pod and made international headlines in 2018 when she carried her dead calf with her for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11430152\/consumer-price-inflation-statistics-canada-august-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758111197_293_Tax-holiday-shopping.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada\u2019s inflation rate ticked up slightly in August: StatCan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11430676\/tyler-robinson-hearing-charlie-kirk-suspect-court-charges\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758111197_833_tyler-robinson-mugshot.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758044768_914_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10941626\/orca-carries-dead-calf-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">she was seen carrying another deceased calf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whales face several threats, including ship strikes, noise pollution, food sources, and inbreeding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese whales are facing a lot of different threats from contaminants, from inbreeding\u2026 when we run a population viability analysis of the population, where we project forward in time under various scenarios, there\u2019s a whole bunch of scenarios that don\u2019t result in recovery of the population, and there\u2019s very few that do result in recovery,\u201d Dr. Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research said in January.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the key component of the whales\u2019 survival is they have to boost their food availability.<\/p>\n<p>Southern resident killer whales remain critically endangered, and scientists believe a lack of Chinook salmon is their biggest threat.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Researchers in Washington State have confirmed a sad outcome 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