Stricken orca mother who carried her dead calf for 17 days is hit by another heartbreaking loss

The death of any calf in the SRKW population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly devastating, not just because she was a female, who could have one day potentially led her own matriline but also given the history of her mother J35 who has now lost two out of four documented calves—both of which were female,

We have the same neurotransmitters that they have. We have the same hormones that they have. Why shouldn’t we also have the same emotions that they have? We don’t have the market cornered on emotions. And so I think it’s fair to say that she is grieving or mourning,