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Melonhead whale spyhopping
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Gray whale at the surface in kelp forest.
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Breaching gray whale. Gray whales breach to communicate and sometimes even toplay.
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Gray whale mother, called a cow, and baby, called a calf.
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Aerial view of gray whale cow and calf.
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Two gray whales at the surface
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A gray whale sticking its head out of the water to look around, a behavior known as spyhopping.
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A view of two gray whale blows. Gray whales' blows are visible from up to 4 km(two nautical miles) away.
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A young western Pacific gray whale breaching off the coast of Sakhalin Island.Gray whales are divided into two populations: a western population whichsummers in Russia and winters in China: and an eastern population that summersin Alaska and winters
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A gray whale cow and calf surfacing in a kelp paddy, next to two sea otters.Gray whales will swim in kelp paddies to avoid killer whales, their chiefpredator.
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Gray whale spyhopping near a boat. Gray whales are among the most curiouswhales, willingly approaching boats to investigate them.
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Aerial photo of a gray whale cow and calf. the average gray whale calf lengthat birth is 5 meters (16 feet four inches.)
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Gray whale cow and calf migrating south from Alaska to the protected birthingand nursing lagoons in Baja California. Cows will give birth along the waysouth.
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An aerial view of a pod of gray whales. Gray whales are distinguished by theirnarrow, triangular heads and by a knobby back ridge near the fluke insteadof dorsal fin.
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Aerial shot of a pod of gray whales. An aerial survey plane has three cameras,designed to give a panoramic shot of the water and whales below.
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Aerial shot of a pod of gray whales.
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Aerial shot of a small pod of whales. Note the back rising out of the water ofthe whale on the far right as it prepares to dive under.
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Submerged gray whale at Granite Canyon. The markings on the skin are fromcolonies of whale lice and barnacles which live on the whale.
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Aerial view of gray whale cow and calf.
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Aerial view of a pod of gray whales off Point Piedras Blancas. Aerial surveysare conducted to accurately count the gray whale population.
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