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Fluke of Vanilla Thunder Confirmed in the catalog

Vanilla Thunder @27184

"Vanilla Thunder" is the 2018 calf of CRC-13503, named for an all white fluke and a habit of charging through the whale social scene in a most exciting way. She is known as a female from observation with a calf. Mother of 2023-2024 calf of Vanilla Thunder from observation of mother and calf pair on Apr 24th, 2024 in Monterey Bay, CA according to Sydney Minges

Monterey Bay · North Pacific

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69 Following 136 Followers
52
Sightings
9
Years
0
Crossings
Last 12 months 3 sightings
  1. N 2025-11: 2 sightings
  2. D 2025-12: 0 sightings
  3. J 2026-01: 0 sightings
  4. F 2026-02: 0 sightings
  5. M 2026-03: 0 sightings
  6. A 2026-04: 0 sightings
  7. M 2026-05: 0 sightings
  8. J 2026-06: 0 sightings
  9. J 2026-07: 0 sightings
  10. A 2026-08: 0 sightings
  11. S 2026-09: 1 sighting
  12. O 2026-10: 0 sightings

Recent activity

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Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Sep 2026 Sep 30, 2026 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive124 m Longest dive4:49
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Nov 2025 Nov 12 – 14, 2025 · Monterey Bay · 2 sightings Deepest dive37 m Longest dive2:10
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Apr 2025 Apr 24, 2025 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive45 m Longest dive1:48
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Apr – Sep 2024 Apr 24 – Sep 11, 2024 · Monterey Bay · 5 sightings Deepest dive90 m Longest dive3:26

✳ Dive stats modelled, not measured

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Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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