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Whalescape |
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Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus),
Family Eschrichtiidae |
Credit & Copyright: Dr. Bruce G. Marcot
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Explanation: Mother and her nearly full-grown calf ... two mountains moving as one in the Pacific Ocean waters. This is not a landscape, but a whalescape. There be gray whales here ... on their annual spring migration north along the western coast of North America, to their Arctic feeding grounds. There may be more to whales than you think you know ... Gray whales that migrate every year between the Arctic feeding grounds and their Mexican breeding grounds can travel up to 12,430 miles (20,000 km) round trip. How long would it take you to paddle that far? Incidentally, that's a cormorant in the photo, taking off in flight -- or perhaps fright -- at the sudden surfacing of mom and kid ... the sudden appearance of this startling whalescape.
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