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Newborn killer whale Tahlequah dies

Written by Linda V. Mapes Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a day of sadness and surprise, Puget Sound researchers discovered Tuesday that the new calf, J61, born to mother killer whale Tahlequah did not survive, and that a new calf was also born from the J pod. did. Brad Hanson, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest…