whale calf

The young whale calf is then reared at the site, usually departing with its parent by mid to late September.

Meanwhile, aquarium officials decide to take three surviving whale calves to the aquarium.

To persuade the whale calf to stick out its tongue, they had it suckle a feeding tube.

A pack of killer whales methodically separates a gray whale calf from its mother before brutally killing it.

Spot - A killer whale calf whom Ariel adopted and secretly raised in the palace.

All grey whale calves are born in the warm, shallow lagoons of Baja, California.

Fortunately, the whale calves' father appears and rescues the young whales and Homer, driving the sharks away.

With that raincoat on, I looked like a whale calf that had lost its way, or a discarded football, blackened from lying in the trash.

Before the whale calves - Baby, Tag and Notch - can be put back in the ocean, they must learn to act like a mini-herd.

By means of co-operation, Killer Whales can take prey larger than themselves, up to and including Blue Whale calves.

The scientists took a look at the tongue of a live gray whale calf at Sea World of California.

Blue whale calves drink 380-570 litres (100-150 U.S. gallons) of milk a day.

She winds up at the beach, where she spots two whale calves - presumed to be Bluella's offspring - surrounded by sharks.

The orcas that prefer marine mammal prey usually attack seals, sea lions, and small cetaceans, and have occasionally been seen preying on grey whale calves.

"The Do 18 ... Dornier's Whale Calf".

But not fast enough, for she began to swing, presenting her starboard side with the barge lying alongside, butting at her flank like a whale calf seeking its mother's milk.

With colonisation, islanders used rafts or "cayucos" (canoe-like boats), and hunted humpback whales, whale calves, and other Cetaceans with harpoons near to the island.

A similar concern has been expressed over whale watching, whale calves normally maintain constant body contact with their mothers but, when separated, can transfer their attachment to the side of the boat.

Were it not for these stored memories of another life, she might forget entirely the traumatised whale calf that she saved from almost certain death and yanked into language-using sentience over 900 years ago.

Katina was the first to give birth, on September 26, 1985, to a healthy young female Orca named Kalina (the first of the 'Baby Shamu' generation of whale calves).

Although it is extremely rare for killer whale calves to be found alone and the cases of Luna and Springer emerged within a year of each other, no connection between their situations has ever been found.

By positioning the camera on the sea lion's back in a specific orientation, the scientists hope to be able to get footage of whale calves nursing, for example, or whales mating, events that have been notoriously difficult to observe.

But just below it, like a whale calf nigh to its mother, is the islet Hornfiskron: hardly more than a reef, half a league or so from end to end, though bearing a thin growth of heather.

The schooner, in a dead calm, was rolling over the huge, smooth seas, her boom sheets and tackles crashing to the hollow thunder of her great sails, when Simon Nishikanta put a bullet into the body of the little whale calf.