Touching killer whales grieving because of death

A killer whale was discovered off the coast of Washington - USA with the body of a newborn baby.

The Seattle Times newspaper on July 26 quoted biologist Brad Hanson from the Northwestern Fisheries Science Center in the US, saying the whale throws her body off the coast of Washington and stays there for two days.

Biologist at the Center for Biological Conservation, Deborah Giles, says the mother whale seems to be very upset because she knows her newborn baby dies.

The small whale died only a few hours after birth on July 24, according to CBC News. Mark Malleson, the first to discover a newborn whale in the San Juan Islands near the Canadian border, said: "I looked through binoculars and saw a small whale swimming with the big ones."

The mother whale pushed the corpse off the coast of Washington and stayed there for 2 days.(Photo: MSN, National Geographic).

Mr. Mark then informed the Whale Research Center in Washington. However, when the researchers arrived, they found the mother whale trying to push her dead baby to her nose. Each time it slid, it dived again and repeated the original movement.

Robin Baird, a biologist at the Cascadia Research Collective Center, has seen a similar incident with another killer whale in 2010. The expert said that reflects a strong link. strong among whale individuals as well as the negative emotions they have to endure.

Scientists discovered that more and more species - from giraffes to chimpanzees - behave in the same way through grief.

Meanwhile, the number of killer whales in the south of the United States has dropped to its lowest level in decades, making this species stand on the brink of extinction.

The Times newspaper said the cause of dead whales includes toxins in the country, many ships and boats and lack of food - especially chinook salmon.