Family of Mother Orca Whale Mourning Calf's Death

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According CBC, members of the mother whale’s pod have been helping with the grieving creature’s mourning by taking turns balancing the baby killer whale’s carcass on their noses, as she’d been doing for days through the waters near San Juan Island, Washington.
As PEOPLE reported earlier, the Center for Whale Research points out this heartbreaking moment represents a larger problem. The Southern Resident killer whale population, to which the mother and her pod belong, has not had a successful birth in years. In about 20 years, only 25 percent of the population’s newborns have survived.

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