tahlequah in A Sentence

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    Tahlequah invites us to see the ways that we are like her.

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    The idea that Tahlequah is grieving her dead calf is not some sentimental projection.

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    Tahlequah and her pod have offered us a poignant, heartbreaking invitation to see them.

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    Tahlequah also showed me that she was aware of the humans watching her, the human researchers and community members who know her and care for her.

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    I thought about this communication as I felt the depth of Tahlequah and her pod's grief, and the desperate and dire situation that they are in.

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    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.

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    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.

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