Daily PRESS. — 7 августа 2026 г. в 12:04:00.636

Daily PRESS. NEWS. Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Grieving Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved. The video is haunting: A dolphin carries the deceased body of her two-week-old calf amid a pod of dolphins south of Perth, Australia. The footage was posted on July 20 by Geographe Marine Research, a whale conservation organization. The group is familiar with this particular mother, whom it has named Fraggle, and her struggles. She had already lost three other calves, and giving birth to a fourth during winter in the Southern Hemisphere posed an immediate challenge to the calf’s survival. “We still had hope she had a chance to be a mum again,” the group wrote in a widely shared social media post. The group proposed that Fraggle’s calf had died of pneumonia. Different types of dolphins are known to carry their dead offspring for days, if not weeks, said Lori Marino, a neuroscientist and the founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project. “It’s absolutely clear that this is a mother grieving for her child,” Dr. Marino said. She noted that while other footage of grieving dolphins has been captured, what was notable in this video was the placement of the surrounding dolphins