The calf wasn't behaving abnormally, but it was swimming slowly.

We've just had an abnormally dry winter.

It was 1-inch thick. It weighed about 100 pounds. It was a little over 360 feet in length.

It was entangled fairly severely in its tail shaft which is the area where the tail stock meets the fluke that goes up and down it was embedded into that tissue down below the skin, blubber and possibly into the muscle layer.

They actually put devices on the animal to slow it down, floating buoys with hooks that was already attached to the line, to the whale.

Like young children, they aren't always where they should be and they aren't always following along with their mothers and might wander into harm's way ....