calf
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We saw two adult whales and a calf inside the lagoon, where they’re extremely rare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But by Christmas 2025, Dan was still feeling fatigued and struggling to lift his heel, walk, or feel his calf.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
A rare observation of a humpback whale mother remaining beside her dead calf is offering researchers a closer look at how these animals may respond to loss.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
A calf strain had kept Jung sidelined since July 21 and Eovaldi had been out since Aug. 7 with elbow inflammation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
My father had made a leather bottle to feed the calf with, and one woman said, “Hey, why can’t he share with the calf?”
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
In the 1870s, a Pend d’Oreille Indian named Walking Coyote captured a few bison calves from northern Montana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
His calves were before me; and I waited in excruciation for discovery.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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