Whale Calves facts

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Prior to the 1950s, North American Right Whales, which are very endangered, fed and calved in the Bay of Biscay but whalers nearly wiped them out.

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Humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins, and southern right whales can be found in Wineglass Bay, which they use for calving, feeding, or even just resting.

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1. Mating and calving takes place from November to March. Female gives birth every 3rd year. Pregnancy lasts 11 months and ends with one baby. Baby whale is 20 feet long and weighs 2 to 3 tons at birth. It depends on the mother's milk 6 to 7 months. Young whales reach sexual maturity at the age of 6 to 12 years.

2. Mating and calving takes place during the winter. Males compete for the female's attention. Right whales are highly promiscuous (they have more than one mating partner).

3. A US court ruled that Navy sonar harms whales and dolphins. The low frequency sounds travel hundreds of miles and are found in 70% of the worlds oceans, which interrupts marine animals, can disturb communication and mating, and can separate mothers and calves.

4. Bryde's whale lives solitary life. It occasionally gathers in pairs (usually mothers and their calves) or loose groups composed of up to 20 members.

5. Kelp gulls, who prey on the eyes of seal pups, pick and wound the anus of seal pups when they consume the pups' faeces, and open wounds in the skin and blubber of right whales to feed on them, contributing to higher mortality of the whale calves.

6. Blue Whale Calves can drink 200 litres of milk a day, and can gain weight at a rate of 200lb + a day!

7. A sperm whale calves suckle for up to 13 years.

8. The extraordinary growth rate of Blue Whale calves. Drinking up to 500 litres of milk and growing 90kg per day in their first year. True baby giants. Hypothetically, a small regiment would not be able to eat one fast enough!

9. Orca whales first born calves usually die because they get the most pollutants unloaded from the mother during birth / nursing.