What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
- Written by Jessica Pierce, Professor of Bioethics, University of Colorado Denver
How do animals think and feel?Patrick aka Herjolf, CC BY-NC-ND
For many weeks, news of a mother orca carrying her dead infant through the icy waters of the Salish Sea captured the attention of many around the world. Keeping the infant afloat as best she could, the orca, named Tahlequah, also known as J35 by scientists, persisted for 17 days, before...
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