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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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Equus

Equus is a mysterious whale.  Equus in Latin means "horse" and she has a horse-like shaped mark on her left fluke.  She has only been recorded a handful of times in the more than 17,000 whale watching trips in our video archives!

She is however, the mother of one of the most sociable and entertaining whales on Stellwagen Bank: Colt.

        Stump the calf is on the left

Above left is the fluke of Equus diving and above right, Equus with Stump in 1988.

Equus' History

Mother:               Unknown First Sighting:   1977
Year Of Birth:   Unknown Last Seen:           1990

Equus' Family Tree

Calves Year of Birth Grandcalves
Tusk 1979  
Colt 1981  
Merlin 1984  
Channel 1986  
Stump 1988  
RK 1990  

 

How can I see more of Equus?

Equus on VHS (Just $12.95)

Your Favorite Whale: Equus

8 minutes of footage of Equus with her 1988 calf: Stump.  Also includes six minutes of her 1981 calf: Colt.  You'll see Colt lobtailing, spyhoping and his eye, flipper and head.

 

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