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Meet Pat the Putup

In Mi'kmaq, the word "Putup" refers to a "whale."

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I am featured in a child friendly worksheet!

Kwe--Hi there! I'm Pat, a minke whale, one of the smallest baleen whales you’ll spot in the bays of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

You might see me during the summer or early fall, though I don't spend much time on the surface. When I dive to feast on capelin, mackerel, or herring, I stay underwater for 15 to 20 minutes—and unlike my whale cousins, I keep my tail hidden when I dive! 

Keep an eye out, and maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of me before I disappear back into the deep!

Whale facts

Newfoundland and Labrador is home to the largest humpback whale population in the world! We are also home to the most beautiful array of sea life, including (about) 10 species of whales, numerous families of sea birds, and wonderous natural occurrences like ice bergs.

We acknowledge that Ktaqamkuk is the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Mi'kmaq peoples who have taken care of this land for centuries. We also wish to acknowledge the Inuit and Innu of Labrador. We acknowledge that the white settler colonial state has been built through Indigenous genocide and land theft, the enslavement and labour theft of people of African descent through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the fifteen thousand Chinese men who worked under exploitative conditions to build Canada’s first transcontinental railroad, the internment and forced labor of twelve thousand Japanese Canadians, and the thousands of refugees and migrants denied refuge into so-called Canada throughout its history. (Credit: ARC NL)

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