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Salt - the star of Salt & Friends, our award-winning DVD. She is a grandmother with 12 calves and 8 grandcalves.Rocker is a champion breacher. One day he breached out of the water more than a hundred times.Stub is spyhopping. Stub is with Colt on Awesome Whales for Kids. They came up to our boat and began singing. This once in a lifetime event is the bonus chapter on the DVD.Giraffe feeding on small fish. She was named for a string of marks on her fluke that looks like spots on a giraffe's neck.Seal lobtailing which means hitting his tail on the water. Seal was born in 1984 to Mars.

Everyone loves whales and we know their names!   (Move your cursor over pictures)

Bat

Bat was named for the black central part of her fluke that is shaped like a bat.  Bat is a large mature female first identified in 1979.

Bat has been sighted in the Gulf of Maine and off the coast of Puerto Rico.

   Jagger left of Bat's Head    

Above left is Bat blowing while Jagger dives.  Jagger was named after Mick Jagger the singer because its dorsal fin is shaped like a set of lips!  Above right is Bat on her side flippering.

Bat's History

Mother:               Unknown First Sighting:   1979
Year Of Birth:   Unknown Last Seen:           2008

Bat's Family Tree

Calves

Year of Birth

Grandcalves
Jagger 1990  
Claddagh 1997  
Unnamed 2004  
Unnamed 2008  

How can I see more of Bat?

Bat on VHS (Each title just $12.95)

Your Favorite Whale: Bat

21 minutes of footage of Bat with her calf, Jagger.  Behaviors you'll see are open mouth feeding by Bat, Jagger nursing, breaching, flippering and lobtailing.  Both mother and calf get very close to boat.

A Real Whale Watch Trip - August 16, 1998

An hour after leaving the pier we saw several humpback whales in the same general area.  One was Bat who gave us a close approach.  A one word description of this experience by a passenger, "WOW".

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