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death-related behaviour

Do cetaceans grieve?

Mar 09, 2021

by Claudia Afeltra

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behaviour, cetacean, cetacean death, cetacean research, death-related behaviour, grief, killer whale

In the summer of 2018, one orca mother known as J35, carried her deceased calf at the surface for a record-breaking 17 days. The calf died shortly after birth and was ultimately not recovered to perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. Although J35 lived in the Puget Sound

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