Another endangered woman Orca pushed the dead child’s calf through Salish Sagar
Researchers at Whale say that the killer whale, an endangered southern resident, was found pushing a dead calf in Salish Sagar on Friday.
For some, looking at the memories of another mother whale may stir Treated like this In 2018, the world is in headlines.
In a social media post about the latest incident, the Washington-State Center for Whale Research (CWR) said she was alerted to visit the orca-J36 was named-Rosario is located at a distance of about 45 kilometers north-east in Washington, in Washington.
CWR says that researchers found that J36 pushed a dead woman calf on Friday afternoon, in which a umbilical cord is still attached. The probability of the child whale was born within three days, they say.
The organization’s social media post reads, “Depending on the size of the calf, we guess that the calf was either near the full-term or near the full period.”
“It is unclear whether it was a stilging or if the calf died immediately after birth.”
Research Director for CWR Michael Weiss said that most pregnancies in the population of the southern killer whale do not result in survival and flourishing in the calves.
He said, “I think a lot of these women get pregnant, have a calf, it either dies very soon after birth or it is still congenital. And they probably take it for one or two or three days. And we never see them with it,” he told CBC News.
“This can happen many times a year and we don’t see it.”
Killer: J Pod on the vergeEpisode 1: “tapping out”
It is expected that a new J Pod calf dies before researchers arrive. When the mother J35 takes her corpse at a distance of 17 days and 1000 miles, the world arises for the plight of the southern residents. Some call it sorrow; Other, a message, and that hot summer drama becomes a symbol of struggle to save J Pod.
Weiss told CBC News that researchers cannot hand over any individual death to a particular factor in the ecosystem.
But the scientist stated that “low breeding success in this population” is associated with high level pollutants – especially industrial chemicals are known as PCBs – which prevent immune and reproductive function, as well as lack of prey, especially chinook salmon, which are preferred victims of orkas.
“In fact, if we want to see less dead calves, we need to take serious action to restore the Chinook salmon population for these whales,” he said.
Researchers have earlier stated that behavior where one occrier pushes a dead calf, is a clear function of grief.
“This may be an emotional response. It may be an inability to leave. It may be an attempt to revive the calf. We don’t know,” Ves said.
The scientist said that the bond between a mother killer whale and his calf is a lifetime.
The mother nurses the calf for three years after being taken for 18 months – and then both are part of the same family for the rest of their lives.
He said, “There are very few social relations anywhere in the animal empire that are strong, stable outside the killer whale,” he said.
J35, another woman in J Pod, pushed her calf remains for 17 days in 2018, incorporating more than 1,600 kilometers in the sea, which scientists called the “A Tour of Grife”.
Then, in early 2025, it was re -seen Pushing another dead calf,
Less than 75 are the killer whales remaining southern. they are a Genetically different group of orkas Vancouver Island and Metro feed Salish Sagar near Vancouver, and salmon.
J36 belongs to a group “J Pod”, a group of southern resident killer whales. The members of the pod have been started with “J” and a number.
The CWR stated that the researchers were collecting more information about J36 and his dead child on Friday, and they would provide more information when available.
Earlier this year, a report said that the killer whale, a southern resident, faced extinct, if Ottawa did not take immediate steps to conservation measures.
