Tahlequah- We Are So Sorry! Story Of A Southern Resident Killer Whale

Vrinda Vijayan
2 min readAug 18, 2018

hen 20-year-old Tahlequah delivered her daughter, the little one died within half- hour of her birth. But that was not the first time she had mothered. She has a son born in 2010. When Tahlequah’s daughter died of suspected malnutrition and pollution, she was inconsolable. She grieved for over two weeks. She carried her dead baby wherever she went, unable to come to terms…

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