Aired Wednesday August 17th, 2011 at 7:00 pm on KUED HD Ch. 7.1
In Hawaii, where new land is born as volcanic rock, another
birth takes place. A baby humpback enters the world and joins
the 3,000 or more whales that congregate in the warm waters off
Hawaii each winter to mate and give birth. This is the story of
the whale's first year of life. Over twelve months she will
learn many skills from her mother, before they eventually make
the several-thousand-mile journey together to Alaska's southeast
coast. Nature: Fellowship of the Whales airs on Tuesday, August
17 at 7:00 p.m. on KUED Channel 7. Humpbacks travel between
Hawaii and Alaska every year, guided by their internal compass.
On that journey, the young whale will meet dangerous orcas and
sharks and playful dolphins and seals. She will learn to use her
flippers and tail to announce herself and to communicate with
other whales. The rich waters of Alaska's Alexander Archipelago
are the whales' summer feeding grounds, an environment very
different from the c