Mars the Humpback Whale
Mars can be adopted and you will meet her on the included DVD (mug not included)
| Calves | Year of Birth | Grandcalves |
| Felis | 1982 | |
| Seal | 1984 | |
| Excalibur | 1985 | |
| Nile | 1987 | Amazon 1998 (Nile) |
| Mesopotamia | 1990 | Aswan 2000 (Nile) |
| Putter | 1993 | |
| Valentine | 1997 | |
| Unnamed | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 2009 | |
| Unnamed | 2012 |
Her Story
Mars is a female humpback whale who spends spring, summer and fall feeding in the waters of Stellwagen Bank within miles of Cape Cod shores.
Mars was named after the Roman Goddess of War because she looks as if she was in a battle. Her tail pattern is unique and very scarred from what looks like net entanglements.
This is most noticed on the left side close to the middle of her tail. The whale with her in this photo is well known: Scratch.
Mars is famous for coming up to boats and blowing directly on people.
Mars was first sighted in 1979 and was seen for many of the years through 2018.
Pictures of Mars (from her DVD)
Note the scars on her dorsal fin.
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Adopt Mars today – a clip from the adoption DVD
Adopt Mars today and support Cetacean Society International
Mars can be adopted through Cetacean Society International’s Humpback Whale Adoption Program. CSI is the nation’s second oldest whale conservation group and is staffed by an all-volunteer group of people dedicated to saving whales around the world. Funding supports research, education, stranding and disentanglement efforts (saving individual whales from nets and fishing gear).
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You may purchase the Mars DVD here without adopting Mars from CSI
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If you adopted Mars from any of the Adopt A Whale Programs in the US or UK, you can still meet her!
You will be delighted to spend 20 minutes watching Mars bubble feeding with her calf, Mesopotamia. She then approaches the boat; she is so close you can see right down her blowholes! Mesopotamia spyhops beside the boat and when they move off, they both raise their tails out of the water
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