1. Keiko weighed six tons and died at the age of 27. His name means ‘lucky one’ in Japanese.
2. After the success of the film, he was moved by the US Air Force to a luxury aquarium in Oregon.
3. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
4. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
5. The blue whale eats three tons of food a day.
6. The first job of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was ship’s surgeon on a Greenland whaler named Hope.
7. Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was first published in 1851 under the title ‘The Whale’.
8. The name of Moby Dick was inspired by a real albino whale called Mocha Dick which reputedly killed 30 sailors before being killed in 1838.
9. Under the Wreck of the Sea, Whales and Sturgeons Act of 1317, any whale washed up on British shores is the property of the monarch.
10. Apart from man, great whales are the only specific animals mentioned in the King James Bible account of the creation in Genesis.
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