Meynecke & Mulville report the first documented humpback whale mother attending her stillborn. She touched it and rested eye to eye beside it, but, unlike many odontocetes, never tried to lift it to the surface. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Kucheravy et al. used a drone to film a female killer whale in the Canadian Arctic carrying her dead calf. Past reports are mostly from the NE Pacific, suggesting the behavior is species-wide. Full paper here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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