Summary
Tahlequah, the orca who gained global attention in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for 17 days across 1,000 miles, has given birth to a new calf, designated J61.
The Center for Whale Research expressed concern for J61’s survival, as orca calves face high mortality in their first year.
Tahlequah, part of the endangered Southern Resident orcas, now has three surviving offspring.
With only 73 whales left in the population, threats like pollution, food scarcity, and contaminants remain critical challenges to their survival.
I need that measurement in miles
Average human lifespans 75 Average orca lifespan say 35
75 / 35 is 2.21
Assuming that math is equivalent to dog years
A human year would be 2.2 years to each orca year
So if we decide that same thing works for distance?
That would be like 451.1 miles for a human to carry their dead offspring?
But I find it would be more approximate to use body size as the modifier for perceived distance?
So let’s take the average height of 5.5 feet for an adult human woman
Dirty google search of about 20 feet averages length of adult female orca
So 20/5.5 gives us 3.63 orca to 1 human foot
Making the answer about:
275.48 orca miles (sizes based) Or 451.1 orca miles (lifespan based)
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Well they have an average migration pattern that is 7,000 miles round trip. So 1/7th of an orca migratory pattern?