"I thought it was a dead baby whale," he said, "until it flipped over and I saw a face."

Big-eyed baby whales eat small worms, insect larvae and fish.

A baby whale is missing, and in the game's first region, its great gray mother implores me (as Ecco) to find him.

So she begins to swim again, accompanying the baby whale as he searches the cold ocean waters for his mother.

"It means that a baby whale, unlike other mammals, is born tail first."

Just so you can check on whether a baby whale is born head first or tail first?

"How much," she asked, "does a baby whale weigh when it's first born?"

The bay becomes full of whales and baby whales.

But the baby whales, as they fattened on herring and mackerel, have been given names by the staff to tell them apart.

Yes, but how did he know a baby whale would hit the spot, musically speaking?