SEATTLE — Mother orca Tahlequah is continuing to carry her burden of grief: a dead calf that she now has been refusing to let go of for at least 11 days.
Tahlequah is the orca whose story shocked the world in 2018 when she carried a calf that lived only half an hour for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles.
The orca and her family, the southern resident J pod, were seen in Haro Strait off San Juan Island on Friday morning before they headed west toward the ocean…