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.

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

***Midnight is the star of her very own DVD - order your copy today***

Your Adopted Whale: Midnight $18.99 on DVD

You will be delighted to spend 21 minutes with Midnight including one of her calves, Clapton.  You will see Midnight's distinctive bubble-net feeding.  Midnight also brings Clapton to the boat and begins hitting the water with her flippers.

Please enjoy this video introduction to Midnight from the Your Adopted Whale Midnight DVD

 

 

Midnight's Background

(WDCS NA/ WDCS UK Adopt A Whale)

Midnight was named for her mostly all black tail pattern.  Luckily there are small white patches on both tips of her fluke and near the center.  This coloring helps identify Midnight from the other humpbacks with mostly black tails.  Midnight also has a very small dorsal fin.

Pictures of Midnight (from her DVD)

    

Many humpback whales have very distinctive feeding styles and Midnight is no exception.  Midnight begins by swimming under a school of fish and blows very small columns of bubbles in a circle around the school.  When the circle is completed, Midnight quickly lunges at the surface with her mouth wide open.

         

Midnight's Fluke

Midnight's History

Mother:               Unknown First Sighting:   1979
Year Of Birth:   Unknown Last Seen:           2011

Midnight's Family Tree

Calves Year of Birth Interesting Facts
Sombrero 1986  
Clapton 1989

Clapton named for Eric Clapton's song "After Midnight"
Abalone 1991  
Bowtie 1996  
Gloaming 1998  
Unnamed 2000  
Unnamed 2003  
Unnamed 2006  
Unnamed 2010  

 

Pictures of Midnight from her DVD

       

Midnight's Calves

         

Upper left is Midnight's 2003 calf quite close to the boat.  Note the scars on the calf's back.  Upper middle is Midnight with her calf whose white flipper is just under the water.  Upper right is the same calf breaching.

  

How can I see more of Midnight?

Midnight is the star of a DVD produced by The Whale Video Company ($18.99)

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