KOBO (whale)
KOBO hanging in the Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. | |
| Species | Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) |
|---|---|
| Sex | Male |
| Born | c. 1992–1994 |
| Died | March 1998 (aged 4–6) |
| Weight | 40 short tons (36 t) |
| Height | 66 ft (20 m) |
KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a 66-foot-long (20 m) juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March 1998. It was named by New Bedford sixth-grade student Katie Hallett and put on display in 2000. It shares the gallery with three other whale skeletons: a 37-foot (11 m) male humpback named Quasimodo, a 49-foot (15 m) female North Atlantic right whale named Reyna who was pregnant at the time of her death, and Reyna's female fetus.