The Tale of the Bladerunner

The Bladerunner whale got its name from the 11-inch incisions running along its left side. There are also similar scars on its right tail fluke, and the Humpback whale got the incisions after an encounter with a propeller in 2001. Two decades after the incident, the Bladerunner was spotter there around the Tasman Penninsula off the Cape Huay coastline.

Rosalind Butt, a New South Wales whale-watching business owner, told ABC that she had spotted the Bladerunner twice. The first was in 2009 and her husband noted that it looked like a zebra. When she saw the Humpback again in 2013, she had a calf with her.