Tic Tac Toe, an easily recognizable female humpback whale with a large \u201cX\u201d on her caudal fin, was seen several times with a calf by her side during the 2022 summer season. This mother-calf duo intrigued the whale-watching community, since this would mean that the little one would be Tic Tac Toe\u2019s third calf in barely three years!<\/p>\n
Normally, female humpbacks give birth at intervals of two to three years. Nevertheless, giving birth to a calf every year is not impossible for this species. Even if it is very energy-intensive for the female, this extraordinarily rare phenomenon has been observed a few times in other female humpbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tic Tac Toe, an easily recognizable female humpback whale with a large \u201cX\u201d on her caudal fin, was seen several times with a calf by her side during the 2022 summer season. This mother-calf duo intrigued the whale-watching community, since this would mean that the little one would be Tic Tac Toe\u2019s third calf in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12842,"featured_media":58040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-qa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n