For seventeen days this summer a killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf through the steel-blue Pacific waters of the Salish Sea, the shared, coastal waters off British Columbia and Washington state. She nosed her baby above the chop, sometimes gently mouthing her flipper, diving deep to retrieve her whenever she lost her…
Nancy Macdonald
Nancy Macdonald is a reporter with the Globe and Mail. She is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. On a whale-watching trip three days after she wrote this review, she saw a killer whale surface from beneath the boat; it was Tahlequah, with her son.
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