An orca off the coast of Washington is putting her health in danger after refusing to let go of her dead calf. Researchers are now considering intervening
Cows kind shows the same behaviour in the milk industry when their cald is taking away from them after birth, its a bit concerning thinking about it. I think it makes the thought difficult of drinking the milk myself
I’m glad that the mother was able to let her calf go when she was ready to let go. I’m glad that the scientist didn’t intervene. I can’t imagine what she would felt like if they were to just take her calf just like that before she was even ready to let go.
Just because their faces don't show expression like people or even dogs, doesn't mean they don't have emotions.... You don't have to be a Marine biologist to know that.!
I would let nature take its course, let this mom do what is best for her. Humans shouldn't intervene in such instances. I think if her own health seriously started to deteriorate, she will know it and will know what she needs to do. Orcas are very intelligent, and they have a close knit, caring family pod around them. hope she is doing well today.
Orca whales have a whole other part of the brain that humans don’t have that is centered on emotions and feelings. The amount of love they have for their families is DEEP. Even more than humans. If a baby dies GOD FORBID we don’t go around carrying it for a week like this. It’s easily the most heartbreaking animal to animal story I’ve ever seen.
Poor mama, I couldn't imagine the pain she is feeling... this is heartbreaking... I just became a mom, I don't know what I would do if something happened to my baby
Breaks my heart deeply. Of course animals gave feelings and emotions as we humans. There have been many studies proving this. I for one don't need a scientific study to know animals have experience emotions. I want humans to stop polluting the oceans and planet, stop slaughtering animals, respect animals right to live without threats of experiments - hunting- slaughter- captivity for profit.
@@funnelvortex7722 the concept of applying arbitrary value and thus a higherarchy on nature is stupid. Take the diatom for example we may perceive it to be lesser then us but they produce 20-50% of our oxygen and we would not survive without them. Even the most dominate species will fall prey to decomposers one day. Nature is a cycle and every organism plays its part in the dynamic and complex biosphere.
But keeping them in captivity doesn't help. And the way that they are kept doesn't keep them safe. It is illegal for them to reproduce in captivity. Also... captivity is why these orcas in my home state are endangered. they wiped out an entire generation 30 years ago with live catches for captivity. Most since then have died but the one whale in SeaWorld in Florida is fro. The pods out here. Together 3 families make for the 75 remaining orcas. That's sad and small. Duck captivity
@@boriqua5109 How is that a legit argument??? Lets just rip them out of the wild - throw them in a tank - starve them into obedience - force them to perform......for fucks sake! SeaWorld is the reason these whales are endangered! They captured dozens of whales from these pods. Captivity is NEVER the answer to helping endangered animals.
I cant believe u asked if they can feel grief! Of course they do, whales and dolphins (any animal) are way more intune with their emotions, and well being then the human race atm!they have been trying to tell us this for years. but the beautiful thing is besides what we as humans have done to them and the ocean they still want to work with us, share there world with ours......what people need to understand is ur killing a lot more then just one. we are responsible for whats happening to them by not doing our part to help clean the ocean and hunting, Sydney Australia is still dumping human waste into the ocean plus much more around the world...
I will NEVER, EVER in my life visit a Sea World again. It’s so heartbreaking to see these gentle giants pent up with the sad dorsal fins. Is Sea World still doing this? I think I read somewhere that Canada has banned the use of Orcas in a “zoo” setting. And to think now their population is dwindling. I would like to blame Sea World. What an awful place to take your children!
From a non-scientist, I'd suggest that, if any wild species has an urge to be with others of their own species, to hunt for food to survive, and instinctively mate to continue their existence, then I'd argue that there must be a shred of grief when they experience loss, even if it's instantaneous, or weeks, as we've seen with J35. Ridiculous notion that grief doesn't exist in any other species.
I hope they let her do her grieving. You take that baby, she'll go rogue or do something much worse than carrying her baby...... She could turn on humans and take out anyone close by. Then you'll want to kill her or put her in captivity. Just leave her be. If she dies bc shes grieving then that is what she wants. Let her choose.
This reminds me of my cat a few years ago she had 3 kittens but 1 didnt make it and she would still try to groom the kitten and carry her from place with her other kittens..i had to wait til she was sleep to take the little one because she would panic when i tried to take her.. then the other 2 she raised and when they were about 6 weeks old she moved them to the top of my garage and kept doing it when I'd bring them down so i put some guards up so they wouldn't fall ... unfortunately one did and she was panicking like crazy and racing to see if he was ok...he was though he walked a little crooked from then on..2 of the sweetest things ive ever seen..animals may not have the intelligence humans do but in many ways they are just like us..in some ways better but for me, hardly ever beneath us and theres no doubt they have feelings and grieve as we do
Of course animals feel Greef, every animal is very intelligent more so then us, so I don’t understand what makes people think they don’t feel any emotion, to me the people who think they don’t feel are the emotionless ones
Cows kind shows the same behaviour in the milk industry when their cald is taking away from them after birth, its a bit concerning thinking about it. I think it makes the thought difficult of drinking the milk myself
I don't see how something unpleasant like this could happen in Heaven. How could any wild orca calf die at such a young age? I thought that when it came to orcas, bad things could only happen to captive ones in marine parks like sea world, and that if you got out a pen and piece of paper and created two headers, wild vs captive orcas, there could be only a long list of unimaginably wonderful benefits and advantages under the 'wild' header, and yet nothing but a very long list of heart-wrenching disadvantages under the 'captive' column. I don't know.
I know J pod. Stop the tanker and whale watching. Humans need to stop pollution in our oceans. Stop over fishing of the salmon that they need to survive! 💕🇨🇦💕
Of course animals can grieve! For a researcher this guy seems like a quack! This story is just devastating.. 😟😔 so sad 😢 but I'm glad she's having another baby to heal her from this awful unfortunate death..
Of course animals can feel greeve. You only have to look at a dog or a horse that lost a baby. And Orcas are much more emotional than we humans are. The poor mother!! I know greeve and when I imagine the emotions being much stronger, I don't know if I would have been able to take it.
The part of the brain that deals with social interaction and empathy is like double the size of humans....they are also mammals and give live births so I would assume grieve like any mother would losing her baby. It's cool to comment on here and feel bad but real action to help these beautiful creatures needs funding and help...im thinking 1 mill out of the 10 million a day we send Israel should suffice. 😝🤓😣
That's the entire population for that area and with several of the females menopausal there is a concern if not now but for the next generation. They stay pregnant for about 18 months and have a high infant mortality rate majorly in part to pollution of their food sources. In case you didn't know whales store food in their blubber and during lean times their body breaks its down But when you are storing toxic elements in the blubber due to polluted food when their body breaks it down it kills them. Every single one of the whales could have and probably do have this ticking timb bomb of toxicity in their body.
They are the most highly polluted in the water... They are becoming infertle from pollution and lack of food and there are only a few female orcas that can birth a calf.. this is critical to their survival.
Not the Southern Residents. They only eat salmon. Different populations of killer whales have different diets. It wouldnt matter if her clan ate fish, sharks or marine mammals. She was a grieving mother who lost her first child......learn to have some compassion.
OF COURSE ANIMALS FEEL EMOTIONAL ABOUT DEATH... THEY ARE A CREATION OF GOD... WE AS HUMAN BEINGS LACK THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR CREATOR!!! MIND. BODY. SOUL AND SPIRIT..
The good news is that she's pregnant again. I wish her well!
Hope kid made it.. over 50% die in first 6 months
How’s her baby
@@lbabytutorials4852 cute
@@lbabytutorials4852 She gave birth in September 2020 to a healthy calf. Nothing has happened since then thank goodness.
She gave birth again today!
👍👌❤️🐳 That's wonderful news. I hope this time everything goes right and there are no problems.
@@horse-lover68 They are 🐬, not 🐳🐋.
@@ShiningGalaxy01 Oh you genius!!😂😂😂 Orca's belong to the dolphin family, do your reasearch please!!😂😂😂
@@ShiningGalaxy01dolphins are a subspecies of whales,so yes,they are still whales
Unreal that people still think animals don't have emotions
Spoiler alert, people are animals.
No one thinks that lmao
Cows kind shows the same behaviour in the milk industry when their cald is taking away from them after birth, its a bit concerning thinking about it. I think it makes the thought difficult of drinking the milk myself
@@MrGFloydChristians think that, no lie.
And so it should!! It means you have a heart and the potential of becoming vegan💌
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I’m glad that the mother was able to let her calf go when she was ready to let go. I’m glad that the scientist didn’t intervene. I can’t imagine what she would felt like if they were to just take her calf just like that before she was even ready to let go.
Absolutely animals grieve. They feel love, they feel Joy, they get excited, they get scared. Why would they not grieve?
Just because their faces don't show expression like people or even dogs, doesn't mean they don't have emotions....
You don't have to be a Marine biologist to know that.!
If you look at their eyes in captivity, you can see the emotional pain just like elephants.
You can see their expressions though
Tahlequah has given birth today! Congratulations mama x
The film black fish showed orcas have more emotions than humans have, this is very heartbreaking.
joanie Waller Watched it. Broke my heart. You're absolutely right about their emptions. Btw. I will never go to Seaworld or any place like it.
Yes, humans abort babies without a care for some heartless reasons- for example Down syndrome. Whales honour life
Just horrific!
Blackfish is propaganda. That documentary is built on your tears. Multiple trainers got fired.
not really more, but still sad
She gave birth to a healthy baby a few days ago!!
Okay man I’m crying for her my son passed away this year he was 18 day born and I still can’t let go of his ashes man
Leyanet GB Gods got you!
Will pray for your precious child.
I’m so sorry for your loss 💙💔
So sorry for your loss 💔
I’m so glad that the baby she had was healthy 🥺🤍
I would let nature take its course, let this mom do what is best for her. Humans shouldn't intervene in such instances. I think if her own health seriously started to deteriorate, she will know it and will know what she needs to do. Orcas are very intelligent, and they have a close knit, caring family pod around them. hope she is doing well today.
Loosing a child is a terrible, gut wrenching, deep scarring type of loss. Bless her, I am glad she took her time to grieve ❤
Orca whales have a whole other part of the brain that humans don’t have that is centered on emotions and feelings. The amount of love they have for their families is DEEP. Even more than humans. If a baby dies GOD FORBID we don’t go around carrying it for a week like this. It’s easily the most heartbreaking animal to animal story I’ve ever seen.
Of course animals have feelings! First, Orca's have such big brains, second Mama's have instinctual behavior to protect their youngs.
Poor mama, I couldn't imagine the pain she is feeling... this is heartbreaking... I just became a mom, I don't know what I would do if something happened to my baby
Tahlequah got a new baby today. Congrats sweetie
Of course they feel emotions like humans. All animals have emotions. We just assume they don't. We all know what happens when we assume.
Bless her heart....I know exactly how she feels
Breaks my heart deeply. Of course animals gave feelings and emotions as we humans. There have been many studies proving this. I for one don't need a scientific study to know animals have experience emotions. I want humans to stop polluting the oceans and planet, stop slaughtering animals, respect animals right to live without threats of experiments - hunting- slaughter- captivity for profit.
look out your window right now, check the weather.
This will confirm that nature ( a force to which even people must abide) is now fighting back
Sorry, but not all animals are the same and not all animals are equal and animals (including humans) killing other animals is the norm.
@@funnelvortex7722 the concept of applying arbitrary value and thus a higherarchy on nature is stupid. Take the diatom for example we may perceive it to be lesser then us but they produce 20-50% of our oxygen and we would not survive without them. Even the most dominate species will fall prey to decomposers one day. Nature is a cycle and every organism plays its part in the dynamic and complex biosphere.
that breaks my heart. poor momma...you would have been an amazing mother. RIP lil baby
Tahlequah' is the given name that the biologists gave to this mom.
I read about this in the paper yesterday......it’s heartbreaking! 😞
Shaun-David Fidler do you know what happened to the mom?
Yes, the mother finally left with the rest of the pod who were nearby....I think there are other related videos on UA-cam.
Shaun-David Fidler yeah buddy it really is a sad thing to see😢
@@JaffaBuiscits I heard the whales formed a funeral procession.
Is this true? Do they do that? Thankyou🐋🐬🐋
and yet they are 45 Orcas in captive only in US, when will these beautiful animals get their freedom ???? ?
Them being endangered like that is actually an argument to keep them in captivity
@@boriqua5109 absolute bull.....undoubtedly the $eaworld type exploiters will sing that sermon at their board meeting$
But keeping them in captivity doesn't help. And the way that they are kept doesn't keep them safe. It is illegal for them to reproduce in captivity. Also... captivity is why these orcas in my home state are endangered. they wiped out an entire generation 30 years ago with live catches for captivity. Most since then have died but the one whale in SeaWorld in Florida is fro. The pods out here. Together 3 families make for the 75 remaining orcas. That's sad and small. Duck captivity
@@boriqua5109 How is that a legit argument??? Lets just rip them out of the wild - throw them in a tank - starve them into obedience - force them to perform......for fucks sake! SeaWorld is the reason these whales are endangered! They captured dozens of whales from these pods.
Captivity is NEVER the answer to helping endangered animals.
@@boriqua5109 It's not. Hell, live capture is a reason why orcas are declining.
If anything you should ask do people have emotions? It's clear animals do, humans not so much
I cant believe u asked if they can feel grief! Of course they do, whales and dolphins (any animal) are way more intune with their emotions, and well being then the human race atm!they have been trying to tell us this for years. but the beautiful thing is besides what we as humans have done to them and the ocean they still want to work with us, share there world with ours......what people need to understand is ur killing a lot more then just one. we are responsible for whats happening to them by not doing our part to help clean the ocean and hunting, Sydney Australia is still dumping human waste into the ocean plus much more around the world...
I express my condolences
Clearly they feel emotions, but just not on a level humans could ever understand
😭 to much pain , trying to resuscitate her calf , what a great mom 😭
I will NEVER, EVER in my life visit a Sea World again. It’s so heartbreaking to see these gentle giants pent up with the sad dorsal fins. Is Sea World still doing this? I think I read somewhere that Canada has banned the use of Orcas in a “zoo” setting. And to think now their population is dwindling. I would like to blame Sea World. What an awful place to take your children!
From a non-scientist, I'd suggest that, if any wild species has an urge to be with others of their own species, to hunt for food to survive, and instinctively mate to continue their existence, then I'd argue that there must be a shred of grief when they experience loss, even if it's instantaneous, or weeks, as we've seen with J35. Ridiculous notion that grief doesn't exist in any other species.
OF COURSE ANIMALS FEEL GRIEF!!
This is absolutely heartbreaking. ...how did the baby pass?
Hmm let’s see she’s been caring the dead body for a week. So do they have emotions?
Ummm leave it tf alone?! One would think this isn’t the first time a calf has died, and those mothers worked it out on their own.
I get it. They feel the same love we do....when we choose to love that much. That poor mama whale😢😢😢
poor little Mommy Orca, grieving, wants help... crying...
I hope they let her do her grieving.
You take that baby, she'll go rogue or do something much worse than carrying her baby......
She could turn on humans and take out anyone close by.
Then you'll want to kill her or put her in captivity. Just leave her be.
If she dies bc shes grieving then that is what she wants. Let her choose.
This reminds me of my cat a few years ago she had 3 kittens but 1 didnt make it and she would still try to groom the kitten and carry her from place with her other kittens..i had to wait til she was sleep to take the little one because she would panic when i tried to take her.. then the other 2 she raised and when they were about 6 weeks old she moved them to the top of my garage and kept doing it when I'd bring them down so i put some guards up so they wouldn't fall ... unfortunately one did and she was panicking like crazy and racing to see if he was ok...he was though he walked a little crooked from then on..2 of the sweetest things ive ever seen..animals may not have the intelligence humans do but in many ways they are just like us..in some ways better but for me, hardly ever beneath us and theres no doubt they have feelings and grieve as we do
Of course she's grieving. We know that they love their babies just as much as humans if not more
Who would have thought that beats have feelings 😂
touching clip
dude, this is sad
Of course they have emotions. This is an example of grief.
💔💔💔💔🙏 heartbreaking 😥
Naw wish I could hug her that's sooo sad man :(
so sad , please help her
She was trying to carry her calf above water in hopes the calf would breath probably
So very sad! Intervene please.
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Poor girl 🥺
Of course animals feel Greef, every animal is very intelligent more so then us, so I don’t understand what makes people think they don’t feel any emotion, to me the people who think they don’t feel are the emotionless ones
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Cows kind shows the same behaviour in the milk industry when their cald is taking away from them after birth, its a bit concerning thinking about it. I think it makes the thought difficult of drinking the milk myself
Awe 😭😭😭
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Oh momma!
I don't see how something unpleasant like this could happen in Heaven. How could any wild orca calf die at such a young age? I thought that when it came to orcas, bad things could only happen to captive ones in marine parks like sea world, and that if you got out a pen and piece of paper and created two headers, wild vs captive orcas, there could be only a long list of unimaginably wonderful benefits and advantages under the 'wild' header, and yet nothing but a very long list of heart-wrenching disadvantages under the 'captive' column. I don't know.
This was heartbreaking to see
الام وما ادراك ما الام
Wow
glad she went on to have another baby...
this is so sad
Rip Baby
How sad
The American Nightmare
So very sad
I know J pod. Stop the tanker and whale watching. Humans need to stop pollution in our oceans. Stop over fishing of the salmon that they need to survive! 💕🇨🇦💕
Nostrils
Once a mother always a mother, & animal mother's put so many human mother's to shame
i carry my dead potato
They should let nature take it's course
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Maybe she's showing us that we were the cause of her calf's death.
Poor mama must have been tired after just giving birth then struggle to revive the calf for weeks😥
don't call her 'it' reporter
Of course animals can grieve! For a researcher this guy seems like a quack! This story is just devastating.. 😟😔 so sad 😢 but I'm glad she's having another baby to heal her from this awful unfortunate death..
Of course animals can feel greeve. You only have to look at a dog or a horse that lost a baby. And Orcas are much more emotional than we humans are. The poor mother!! I know greeve and when I imagine the emotions being much stronger, I don't know if I would have been able to take it.
Wait a minute. Did he say there’s only 75 left in the wild?
75 of this particular population. The group is referred to as the Southern Resident whales (SRKW).
Leave them be damn stop tryna make excuses to kidnap a dead calf
She is prob trying to say something! 😢
Free Lolita
The part of the brain that deals with social interaction and empathy is like double the size of humans....they are also mammals and give live births so I would assume grieve like any mother would losing her baby. It's cool to comment on here and feel bad but real action to help these beautiful creatures needs funding and help...im thinking 1 mill out of the 10 million a day we send Israel should suffice. 😝🤓😣
dafak of course animals feel emotions what do you think humans are?
Only 75??? They aren’t critically endangered.
That's the entire population for that area and with several of the females menopausal there is a concern if not now but for the next generation. They stay pregnant for about 18 months and have a high infant mortality rate majorly in part to pollution of their food sources. In case you didn't know whales store food in their blubber and during lean times their body breaks its down But when you are storing toxic elements in the blubber due to polluted food when their body breaks it down it kills them. Every single one of the whales could have and probably do have this ticking timb bomb of toxicity in their body.
They are the most highly polluted in the water... They are becoming infertle from pollution and lack of food and there are only a few female orcas that can birth a calf.. this is critical to their survival.
They eat other babys of other whales, so...hm :-/
Not the Southern Residents. They only eat salmon. Different populations of killer whales have different diets. It wouldnt matter if her clan ate fish, sharks or marine mammals. She was a grieving mother who lost her first child......learn to have some compassion.
@@CleverClover2023 learn to accept other peoples opinions.
@@Sharkinspector I mean don't you eat veal?
@@Sharkinspector Resident Orcas don't eat whales, just as their transient cousins, f---ing idiot. And also, Orcas are dolphins, not whales.
@@Sharkinspector you better be vegan
OF COURSE ANIMALS FEEL EMOTIONAL ABOUT DEATH... THEY ARE A CREATION OF GOD... WE AS HUMAN BEINGS LACK THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR CREATOR!!! MIND. BODY. SOUL AND SPIRIT..
Rip Baby
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