09-08-2018 02:02 via 10tv.com

Grieving orca still swimming with her dead calf in Northwest

SEATTLE — An endangered orca is still clinging to her dead calf more than two weeks after her newborn died.Michael Milstein, a spokesman with NOAA Fisheries, says researchers on Wednesday spotted the 20-year-old whale known as J35 carrying her dead young off the tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.The calf died July 24 and the image of the mother whale clinging to the dead calf has struck an emotional chord worldwide.Milstein says researchers with Fisheries and Ocean Canada also spotted
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