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26 26 From baby to adult First Year Six to Ten Years Adult Humpback At Birth After 11 months inside mama, they come out at about 10-20 feet in length and weigh up to 2.5 tons. If you see a tiny whale with a bent flipper, you're looking at a newborn calf. While learning how to feed on fish, the calf nurses, drinking up to 130 gallons of milk each day. Each month they put on as much as 2,000 pounds in weight and grew a foot in length. By the end of the first year, that adolescent could expect to be as large as 24 feet and 26,000 pounds - now that's a big baby! This is when humpbacks are considered to have reached their maturity and are able to have babies of their own. At this stage a male will be around 35 feet, and females average about 40 feet - yes, the girls are bigger! Fully grown humpbacks reach up to 62 feet long and tip the scales at 79,000 pounds. On average, moms have a baby every couple of years. If they don't get caught in nets and don't get hit by a boat or killed by a predator, humpbacks can live as long as 80 years. That means over their life, a humpback could theoretically have 35 or more children. Can you imagine? GROWTH CHART C AT C H T H E P E R F E C T WAV E . O U R N A L U C O L L E C T I O N E X C L U S I V E LY AT M A U I D I V E R S J E W E L RY W H A L E R S V I L L AG E , K A ' A N A PA L I P I O N E E R I N N , L A H A I N A Q U E E N K A ' A H U M A N U C E N T E R , K A H U L U I K A H U L U I A I R P O RT H I L O H AT T I E L A H A I N A H I L O H AT T I E K I H E I F O R E V E R G F O R E V E R G U A R A N T E E 8 0 0 . 2 5 3 . 6 0 1 6 | M A U I D I V E R S . C O M Humpback moms are very protective of their young. Photo by Marty Wolff MAUIJEWELS.COM See the Full Line at