Baby Hook
We have known Baby Hook since July 04th, 2008. She is now mother of a lovely calf and can be easily identified by her hook-shaped fin.
We often see Baby Hook on the water surface, sometimes because her very curious calf likes to be very close to the firmm boat. Baby Hook is a true protector, always at the side of her offspring to teach them life; for example, how to behave as a whale around the whale-watching boats or how to cope with possible dangers (we have discovered this, because Baby Hook often had to look for her little one at the bow of the firmm boats.)
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Fotos
This is how we have experienced Baby Hook since the beginning of our adoption program:
2014
Baby Hook often came very close to the boat. She moves mostly with her family and also likes to dive under the boat.
2015
We spot the female very often, she likes to get very close to the boat. Baby Hook usually moves in the family with Edu and Pedro. She loves to dive under the boat and often stays for a longer time under it.
2016
Baby Hook has become a mother!
2017
Baby Hook, accompanied by her young from the last season, came remarkably often close to the boat and stayed for a long time at the side of it. She let her young one look at the boat extensively.
2018
We have seen Baby Hook 35 times this season. She is one of the most trusting females and likes to come to the boat or swim under the it. It seems that she would like to contact us.
Most of the time Baby Hook was accompanied by her three-year-old offspring, who likes being under the boat close to the windows with the curious tourists. Pedro and Edu are always to be found in her family.
2019
Baby Hook, Pedro and Edu formed an inseparable family again this year, now joined by Triángula and her newborn baby. On the 19th of August, we were able to observe how the little pilot whale baby must have been born just moments before, and Baby Hook immediately took on the role of aunt.
2020
We saw Baby Hook often, even though it was only a short season. Triángula was often by her side. On the 24th of August she surfed enthusiastically in the high waves, known as the Hileros del Sur.
2021
Baby Hook was spotted on the very first trip of the season. She was usually accompanied by Edu, Triángula and Ponce. In August she was particularly cheeky and bold: At the beginning of the month she was with the group that was teasing the sperm whale and two weeks later there was a fight with another pilot whale group.
2022
We were able to observe Baby Hook 33 times this season. We saw her most often in August, but she was not seen at all in October. Most of the time she was swimming with Edu, Pedro and Triángula. She is not very shy, 9 times she came directly to the boat.
2023
Baby Hook was the most spotted pilot whale of the season. We encountered her 53 times. We saw her continuously from the beginning of April to the end of October, most frequently in July and September. She likes company, as we spotted her in groups of at least 10 animals more than half of the time.
2024
Baby Hook's sightings this season were even better than last year, as she was seen 56 times. Edu often swam alongside her. She also continues to enjoy large gatherings, as we saw her 8 times in groups of more than 25 animals. In June, she and around 30 other pilot whales were annoying a sperm whale, and on two other occasions (in July and August) we saw her together with sperm whale(s).