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Alby who frequently picks on Katak. Katak's grandmother frequently tells Katak the story of his grandfather whom he is named after and how he was the first one to survive an encounter with the killer whale Jack-Knife who eats anyone he encounters. He fell in love with Katak's grandmother, but he left for the Arctic before he could find out about her pregnancy. The pod is slowly dying out due to whales failing to have babies, and
Estelle suffers a miscarriage after being stressed out by the sound of a boat horn. Bosco believes the pod will have to move south to survive, but when Katak overhears a conversation about his grandmother possibly losing the will to live due to Estelle's miscarriage, he decides to head to the Arctic to bring his grandfather back to his grandmother.
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who has a reputation as a late bloomer as he is still grey and has not turned white like most belugas his age; eager to prove his maturity and courage, he embarks on a quest to find his grandfather in the northern sea.
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