After Her Newborn Calf Died, this Grieving Mama-Whale Has Carried Her Baby's Body through the Ocean for Weeks

Avi Selk : Aug 13, 2018
Washington Post/SFGate.com

[Washington Post-SFGate.com] ...The act itself was not unprecedented, but researchers said it was rare to see a mother carry her dead for so long. It couldn't have been easy for her. Tahlequah's pod travels dozens of miles in a day, Chiu wrote, and she pushed her baby's hundreds of pounds every inch of the way. She was forever picking up the body as it sank, hoisting it out of the water to take a breath, and repeating... Click here to read and watch the video. (Screengrab: Center for Whale Research/via Time)