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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.

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Cats Paw video clips, DVD's, stories, pictures, family trees and facts.

Cats Paw

(WDCS UK Adopt A Whale)

(watch a video clip below of how she was named)

Cat's Paw was named for the white mark on her all-black fluke that resembles a paw print.  Look closely, the paw print is on the left side of her tail.  It may not look very large here, but her tail is 13-14 feet wide and perhaps 4 feet high!

 

Cat's Paw has a unique feeding style un-copied by any other humpback whale in the world.  She spyhops up through the center of a school of fish with her mouth closed.  It is on the way down that she opens her mouth and 1000's of gallons of water and fish pour in.  It is incredible to see.  She is the only whale that can be identified by her style of feeding.

Cats Paw spyhops in bubble cloud     Cats Paw opens mouth on way down, suction pulls in fish

 

Cat's Paw is a co-star on  Salt & Friends, (60 minutes) a Telly Award winner and said to be the best nature program in the world. Salt & Friends opens with the story of how Salt was named and introduces Cat's Paw, as well as thirteen other popular and often sighted humpback whales.

Cats Paw's History

Mother:               Unknown First Sighting:   1980
Year Of Birth:   Unknown Last Seen:           2010

Cats Paw's Family Tree

  Year of Birth Grandcalves
Unnamed 1980  
Velvet 1982  
Not Named 1984 None
Fracture 1990  
Runway 1998  
Unnamed 2008  
Unnamed 2010  

Please enjoy this introduction to Cats Paw from the Salt & Friends: Humpback Whales With Names DVD

Pictures of Cat's Paw

    

How can I see more of Cats Paw?

Cats Paw can be seen on two DVD's produced by The Whale Video Company ($18.99 each)

Salt & Friends: Humpback Whales With Names

The story of Cats Paw and her family is two minutes in length.  You will witness her unique feeding technique as well as several breathtaking breaches.  Fourteen other whale families round out this hour long program.

Your Adopted Whale: Cats Paw

We selected the very best clips of Cats Paw from 17,096 trips to the feeding grounds where this whale can be sighted from April thru October.

You will be delighted to spend 19 minutes watching Cats Paw with lots of good looks at her feeding style.  She is even seen leaping higher than four others to get the most fish.  Several excellent spinning head breaches by Cats Paw ends your visit with this fascinating mother of seven calves.

 

Note:   VHS Videotapes are available for both programs too (Each title just $12.95)

Call 717-763-9507 to order VHS or print and mail the VHS Order Form

 

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