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White sharks gather near rookeries for a buffet as weanlings begin heading out to sea.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025 The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach.—
Breanne Kovatch,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 July 2023 Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019.—
Larry Stumes,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Feb. 2023 The 10 American Pharoah weanlings sold last November brought an average price of $445,000.—
Tim Sullivan,
The Courier-Journal,
6 June 2018