![]() ![]() While the mother orca was mourning her baby, the Canadian navy was participating in one of the most violent international maritime exercises. Ken Balcomb, founder of the Center for Whale Research, called it “a very tragic tour of grief.” Tahlequah carried her dead calf for 17 days, travelling more than 1,000 miles balancing her calf’s lifeless body on her nose. Two years ago, Tahlequah gave birth to a calf that died shortly afterward off the coast of Victoria, B.C., near Canada’s Pacific coast naval base. ![]() With only 76 members of this group remaining, scientists were relieved to discover at the end of July that whale J35, also known as Tahlequah, is pregnant again. On their way to the islands, the warships traversed the critical habitat of the most endangered marine mammals, the southern resident killer whales. The largest naval war game in the world, it takes place twice a year across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii. Two Canadian warships, HMCS Regina and HMCS Winnipeg, recently departed to participate in the U.S. In a world without war games / on our watery blue body, / there is no place for hungry egos, / no place for triggering weapons / into the belly of rich vast blue moana / because she will breathe. ![]()
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