In 2018, when the Southern Resident Orca given the human name of Tahlequah by observers gave birth to a calf that soon died and that she subsequently carried on her head for seventeen days, endangering her own life in the process due to the difficulties the act caused in her eating enough to recover from the birth, journalists from around the world flooded the airwaves and Internet with stories of her mourning, her sorrow, her grief, how much she was like a human mother whose own child had died.