Gray whales migrate between feeding grounds in the Arctic and breeding grounds in Baja California. They use echolocation and their baleen plates to filter feed on small creatures in ocean sediments. Gray whale numbers were nearly decimated by commercial whaling but have rebounded to around 20,000 thanks to international protections. Some western Pacific gray whales remain critically endangered with only around 100 left.

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2. Where I got my information www.arkive.org Nationalgeographic.com/graywhaleGray Road to Recovery: Gray Whale. 2008

3. LIFE CYCLESIt takes a gray whale about two months to swim to Baja Mexico. As it grows older, the gray color turns spotted.

4. appearanceGray whales have parasites that makes their snouts and backs look like a crusty rock.

5. AppearanceGray whales do something called spy-hopping. It’s like peaking out of the water.A gray whale spy-hopping is similar to treading water.

6. conservationBefore people started to protect gray whales in 1937,there were about a 1,000 left.By 1997 their numbers grew to 20,000.

7. DietThe gray whale uses its snout to forage by dislodging small creatures from the seafloor. Gray whales eat krill

8. HabitatGray whales’ home is the Pacific Ocean. Some gray whales live near Korea, Japan and Russia.

9. The whales near, Japan and Russia are endangered. There are about 100 of them left near Korea, Japan and Russia. People killed them.Whales are killed for their oils.

10. conservationPeople destroy gray whales homes. Gray whales are killed for there blubber.

11. Interesting factsA gray whales live up to 50 years old. A gray whale is called different names.

12. Interesting factsGray whales are called devil fish, hard head and mussel diggers. Gray whales can swim more then 10 miles.

13. HabitatGray whales spend their summers in the Sea of Oknotsk. Gray whales leave their homes to migrate.

14. DietGray whales are benthic feeders . That means that they eat at the bottom of the ocean. Gray whales eat plankton, fish, mollusks, krill and sea worms.