How To Use Gray whale In A Sentence
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The transients ambush them - they have a taste for the gray whale calves' high-energy blubber and protein-rich tongues.
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Like rorquals, gray whales are migratory species.
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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.
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The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales has been increasing in recent years despite known harvests and other human caused mortalities.
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Gray whale calves are born in the winter after a gestation period of about 13.5 months.
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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
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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.
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The most dramatic and perhaps most significant cause of natural mortality among gray whales is predation by killer whales.
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We experienced some difficulty identifying whale species during the count, especially differentiating between bowhead and gray whales.
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In addition, a gray whale when diving nearly always shows its tail flukes (fluke-up dive).
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From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.
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First Putin the conservation warrior joined naturalists chasing a gray whale across the North Pacific, and fired a skin-sampling harpoon into it with a crossbow.
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In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
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Where would we be as a nation without bald eagles soaring over the Chesapeake Bay, wolves howling from the backcountry of Yellowstone or gray whales breaching from Pacific waters?
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Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil.
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Gray whales hug the west coast as they move south.
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When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction.
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From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.
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From 1845 to about 1900, American whalers hunted gray whales on their winter grounds in Baja California, as well as their summer grounds in the subarctic.
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Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
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On May 17, 1999, a week into the hunt, the Makah killed a 30-tonne gray whale, striking it with harpoons and then killing it with a gunshot to the back of the head.
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First Putin the conservation warrior joined naturalists chasing a gray whale across the North Pacific, and fired a skin-sampling harpoon into it with a crossbow.
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Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts.
