What Tahlequah and her pod are showing us,
and asking of us, is nothing less than a full accounting, a full witnessing, and a full engagement with the reality of their lives, and our lives together on our planet.
Tahlequah made headlines around the world as she carried the body
of her dead calf at the surface of the water, sometimes on her head, sometimes in her mouth, for at least 10 days, in a heartbreaking“tour of grief”, as one of the foremost experts on her pod and her family, Ken Balcomb of the Whale Research Foundation, called it.