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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.

Explore our web pages to meet whales as individuals, with names and unique personalities.

The Whale Name Game

Whales are named in several ways.  There may be a mark or scar on its fluke (this is the most desired spot) or other parts of its body that looks like another object.  For instance, suppose a whale came right up to a boat you were on and while watching the whale you noticed a mark on the underside of its tail that was shaped like a light bulb.  Now you have a new whale name...Light Bulb!

Whale Naming Party

Humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine are named by all of the whale watching naturalists in the Northeast at a whale naming party.  They view pictures of every new whale sighted that year and vote on the names suggested at the party.

Whale Naming Rules

There are just a few rules in giving new whales names.

1. It should be named for a distinct mark on the underside of its tail or other part of its body.

2. The name should not reflect a gender, meaning a male or female (girl or boys) name.

3. The name cannot be a human name. (Although a few whales were named to honor people or conservationists many years ago.  The humpback whales Agassiz, Clapton and Churchill are examples).

New this year:  Play a new Whale Name Game on YOUTUBE

Click this link:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSANG-o1cB4

                or go to YOUTUBE and simply search whale name game

You'll see ten whales diving, try to ID them using sources on the web!

The whale names are listed at the bottom of this page.

 

This whale in the picture below has a name.  Can you guess what it is?

Hint:  The whales in the game can be found elsewhere on our web site. Check the whale names in the Adoption Programs and the whales highlighted on Salt & Friends.

 

Whale Name Game November 15, 2011

Hint: This large male is known for his spectacular visits with whale watching boats..

Hint: His mother is named Cardhu.

Hint: He was born in 1982.

 

 

 

 

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