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Unprecedented numbers of gray whales are being spotted in San Francisco Bay, and nobody really knows why. ... on a 6,000-mile journey south to Mexico, where females calve and nurse their young in ...
Gray whales have experienced similar declines before but their numbers fully recovered,” NOAA said. Indeed, gray whale numbers have dropped as low as 15,000 in 1978-79 and 1992-93, and 16,000 in ...
The number of Pacific gray whales increased an estimated 33% compared to a year ago, offering continued evidence that the mammals are recovering. Pacific gray whale numbers increase by 33% ...
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [5] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of 14.9 meters (49 ft), a weight of up to 41 tonnes (90,000 lb) and lives between 55 and 70 years, although one female was estimated to be 75–80 years of age.
The agency has estimated the total number of eastern north Pacific Gray whales to be between 17,400 to 21,300, an increase from an estimated 13,200 to 15,960 whales last year.
Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (), Glaucobalaena and Eschrichtioides from Italy, [1] [2] and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. [3]
The gray whale was present in the northern Atlantic Ocean between the Late Pleistocene and recent times, and C. rhachianecti fossils have been found on a beach in the Netherlands, showing that the barnacle must also have been present. [3] This barnacle has been found between January and March for several years in captive beluga whales in San ...
Of the sightings, 21 were fin whales, 26 were humpback whales and 93 were sei whales. There were smaller numbers of killer whales, minke whales, North Atlantic right whales and sperm whales ...