Talk:Whale/@comment-177.5.59.188-20151222013823/@comment-26629810-20151222015324

I noticed a similar thing happen to me. I came back, days later, but he wasn't even bloated. Then, for some reason, I left him to get some resources on another island and came back to find him at stage 2.

Try being around him for awhile, and then coming back. This is obviously a bug by the way.