calf
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In 2025, a female humpback whale was observed off the southern Gold Coast with an escort whale after apparently giving birth to a deceased calf.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The encounter, documented by researchers from Griffith University and Sea World Foundation, raises the possibility that humpback whale mothers may experience grief when a calf dies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Hopeful return: Reliever Shawn Armstrong, who signed a one-year, $5.5 million contract last offseason, has been sidelined since July 24 with a calf strain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Neves also now wears the number 21 shirt for Portugal in Jota's memory, and has a tattoo on his calf of him and Jota embracing.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
He’d stand there feeling all confused, like a moose calf lost in the woods.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
The observation adds to the small number of documented cases involving deceased calves in baleen whales.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Once farmers and ranchers arrived in California, their stock of calves and pigs and crops were a bear buffet, and that got bears killed much more often than any unprovoked attacks on humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Gropper doesn't set the price for his calves.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
This year, authorities have counted 1,375 specimens, including nearly 400 calves, Coscarella said.
From Barron's
She remembers the muscles in her calves and the strength in her thighs, and she remembers the heat of the farmland and the slope of the mountains and the miles and miles she’s crossed.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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