Humpback Whale
This is a baby Humpback Whale breaching off the tip of the Baja peninsula. You can see here that it has its eye closed during the breach. It appeared to be copying its mother, who was enormous and breaching spectacularly, but the youngster could not achieve such a big splash. Humpbacks usually have lots of barnacles attached, particularly on the face and flippers, but this one is too young for these. Those rows of tubercles on the face are a normal part of a Humpback Whale.
Humpback Whale
This is a baby Humpback Whale breaching off the tip of the Baja peninsula. You can see here that it has its eye closed during the breach. It appeared to be copying its mother, who was enormous and breaching spectacularly, but the youngster could not achieve such a big splash. Humpbacks usually have lots of barnacles attached, particularly on the face and flippers, but this one is too young for these. Those rows of tubercles on the face are a normal part of a Humpback Whale.