People are heartbroken over a mother orca who carried the corpse of her newborn calf for 17 days
Scientists have called her actions ‘unprecedented’ and have said the pod is in danger of becoming extinct.
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Scientists have called her actions ‘unprecedented’ and have said the pod is in danger of becoming extinct.
The mother, 25-year-old Takara, was already pregnant when SeaWorld announced it had stopped breeding orcas.
The whale was profiled in Blackfish, a 2013 documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity.
SeaWorld has seen attendance go down in recent years – in part as a result of revelations in the 2013 documentary Blackfish.
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