Whale Makes Epic Jouney Sans Tale
By Wendy Heller, August 14, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
A humpback whale named "Stumpy" after he lost his tail as a baby in an apparent killer whale attack has been sighted again six years later on an epic journey along Australia's coast.
Stumpy was spotted playing off eastern Queensland's Sunshine Coast by whale watchers aboard a boat named for the late TV environmentalist and "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin, the national AAP news agency reported.
Allan Short, skipper of the Australia Zoo's boat "Steve's Whale One," said he last saw the tailless whale as a yearling in 2001 in the region's Hervey Bay, where Antarctic-based humpbacks travel in the breeding season.
Scratch marks on Stumpy's side suggest he was injured in an attack by a killer whale, Short said...
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