Weeping whales: why one humpback whale mother stayed beside her dead newborn
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- Guardian Australia·8h agoDo whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
The behaviours we observed could represent grief, but they could also reflect maternal attachment, confusion or instinctive caregiving It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold…
Read at Guardian Australia → - The Conversation AU·15h agoWeeping whales: why one humpback whale mother stayed beside her dead newborn
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold Coast. The encounter was captured through underwater video. For more than an hour, the mother repeatedly returned to the same spot,…
Read at The Conversation AU →