Tracing whales - The mystery has no answer (Part 3)

The concept of extroverted whales, living in society for me seems like a paradox. Even for Mayoral, our instructor, was intrigued and rushed to the water column we saw that morning.

We were greeted by a spectacular water performance: four times jumping off the continuous water surface of a 40-foot long whale weighing 30 tons. This performance was so fascinating that I couldn't believe that Mayoral suddenly stopped the knife pointing at the animal. At that point, he said that the whale we are pursuing is now chasing us.

Frohoff shouted , 'He's swimming straight towards this . ' She immediately with the recording device she gave the name Fluffy - in fact, a two-foot cylindrical microphone wrapped with a thick, shaggy coat. She held it up high, toward the dark wave shaped like a whale swimming near.

Among the most ancient whales, gray whales are by far the most crude. Their massive bodies provide shelter for oysters and parasitic lice, while also saving longitudinal scars - traces of attacks by or against the whale's ships. In fact, the mother gray whale following us at the time looked like a sunken submarine sunk, it looked slow. It suddenly rose to swim beside us and sprayed a giant water column before diving again.

(Photo: Ivan Chermayeff)

Whether a boat is 18 feet long while in the ocean is only a fragile shield. When we put that boat next to a huge, fast, 40-foot whale with a tail that only a single swing made us and the boat fly into the sky, we could feel the fear. boundless when you have to completely subjugate.I watched with my eyes wide open as the 'mobile ground' glided without a sound when Milton sat down to describe the whale. Suddenly I felt like I wanted to follow the fish, going all the way to the deep sea floor to return to the fanciful, primitive house.

Then, in a few moments, the mother fish reappeared at the stern and followed us, but this time it brought along the fry - this is the miniature replica of itself weighing only 2 tons. . The skin of the baby fish is still very slippery and glossy. The young gray whale swept near the edge of the boat, both of its long heads like hornbills rising above the water, coming close to me. A large egg-shaped eye slowly opened to look at me. I never felt like I was so noticed.

It is truly amazing whether they cross the territorial boundaries to look at us. However, that behavior is unbelievably true when we consider history not far from the relationship between whales and humans in the Baja breeding area. Just like the same species living in the extinct Atlantic Ocean. About 100 West Pacific gray whales are in serious threat but continue to swim in coastal waters from South Korea to Siberia, the eastern Pacific gray whale also Hunted to extinction nearly 75 million years ago. The waters of San Ignacio Lake have been tinged with whale blood every winter and spring, the motherless whales still swim around the whale boats many days later before they die of starvation.

According to some scientists, gray whales can live up to 100 years. They are often referred to as "stubborn demon fish" because of their violence when they protect baby whales and protect themselves, or when they crush whale hunting ships, or when they destroy you my friend. Gray whale hunting was adopted by most whale hunting countries in the world in 1937, along with a positive signal of the inherent recovery and adaptability of gray whales east of the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean. Its current population is estimated at about 18,000 individuals . In 1994 the gray whale was the first marine animal to be removed from the protection list under the Endangered Species Act. So far the question 'why today's gray mother whales, some of them still carry scars like being stabbed, can still find us and then gently push their babies into our arms' Still a mystery to researchers and whale observers.

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Tracking whales - Court rulings and unknown things about whales (Part 2)

Tracking whales - Mysterious whale whale cropping event (Part I)