Whale Adoption
Now it’s time to protect the whales
Our whales
Due to whale hunting in modern times (since the end of the 19th century) many species are at risk of extinction.
Ternua has become associated with international groups known for their work in favour of preserving threatened species and spaces. Thus within the symbolic Whale Adoption Project, Ternua has sponsored the Yubartas: Bat, Half Moon, Navaho y Buckshot.
Bat
BAT is an enormous female identified the first time in 1979. She’s one of the few Yubartas photographed in both the southern breeding grounds close to the coasts of Puerto Rico...
Navaho
NAVAHO an adult male first photographed in 1980 on Stellwagen Bank, a marine sanctuary near the coasts of Massachusetts, USA...
Buckshot
BUCKSHOT is a larger than normal female first photographed in 1979. She got her name because of the circular black marks on her tail, false pellet shots made by a shell shotgun...
Half moon
HALF MOON is a large male first identified in 1978. He got his name because of his tail which curves so much it looks like a half moon...
Buckshot
BUCKSHOT is a larger than normal female first photographed in 1979. She got her name because of the circular black marks on her tail, false pellet shots made by a shell shotgun. She’s a very sociable animal because she’s always with other Yubartas.
She’s known to have had 8 babies, the first a female born in 1986, not immediately identified because they hadn’t got good photos of her tail. Several years later, researchers confirmed an animal known as Ampersand was the baby Buckshot had in 1986. In 1989, she had a second baby, a male called Pellets in his mother’s honour. The third born in 1991, called Grizzly, Mudskipper was born in 1997, in 2001 Quarternote, and in 2003 and 2006 a further two.
Buckshot was spotted in 2008 with Mudskipper, Quaternote, Ampersand and her eighth baby.
