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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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..
