How To Use gray whale In A Sentence
- The transients ambush them - they have a taste for the gray whale calves' high-energy blubber and protein-rich tongues.
- Like rorquals, gray whales are migratory species.
- At the same time, seabird populations have suffered large die-offs, crab and shrimp populations have crashed, unusual algae have bloomed, sea ice has shrunk, and gray whales have washed up dead.
- The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales has been increasing in recent years despite known harvests and other human caused mortalities.
- Gray whale calves are born in the winter after a gestation period of about 13.5 months.
- This same mentality of greed wiped out similar cetacean species in the past such as the North Atlantic gray whale which was hunted to extinction and the critically endangered Western North Pacific which to date has fewer than 100 individuals remaining. Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition
- After they killed the whale - in what looked like food sharing - one killer whale held down the carcass as the others tore the thick, resilient gray whale skin and blubber.
- The most dramatic and perhaps most significant cause of natural mortality among gray whales is predation by killer whales.
- We experienced some difficulty identifying whale species during the count, especially differentiating between bowhead and gray whales.
- In addition, a gray whale when diving nearly always shows its tail flukes (fluke-up dive).
