Where Whales Become Friends

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.

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

***Coral is the star of his very own DVD - order your copy today***

Your Adopted Whale: Coral $18.99 on DVD

You will be delighted to spend 20 minutes with Coral close to the boat.  You can see Coral's belly while he is flippering.  Coral is seen tail breaching, spinning head breaching and lobtailing.  Coral also finds a patch of seaweed to push around.

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

 

Coral's Background

Coral was born in 1988 and I was very fortunate to actually see Coral many times as a calf with his mother, Silver.  Coral was named for the marks on his fluke that look somewhat like coral heads.  Below is Coral (as a young calf) flippering with Silver.  Coral has the short flippers.

Pictures of Coral (from his DVD)

 

Coral on left flippering with his mother

Coral's tail pattern is a beautiful white with thick, black marks.  Look closely and you can see several places where killer whales grabbed him by the tail.

Coral is very dramatic while feeding and sometimes seems to use the boat's sides to trap fish.  Coral has many white scars near his blowholes that help you identify him.

   Coral came up under the bow   See Coral's baleen

Coral's Fluke

Coral's History

Mother:               Silver First Sighting:   1988
Year Of Birth:   1988 Last Seen:           2011

 

How can I see more of Coral?

Coral is the star on two DVD's produced by The Whale Video Company ($18.99 each)

Salt & Friends: Humpback Whales With Names

The story of Coral is four minutes in length.  It shows Coral as a young calf breaching, lobtailing and even playing in seaweed!  He is seen close to the boat and feeding on small schooling fish.  Coral has adopted a unique feeding style seen only in the Gulf of Maine.  It is called kick-feeding.  Coral swims to a school of fish and slams his tail on top of them.  This seems to stun the fish.  Coral swims under the school, blows a few bubbles and comes up through the school with his mouth wide open.

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