Grey whales in Mexico are approaching tourist boats to get help from humans, The Dodo reported. A video shows a whale-watching captain picking parasites off a whale's head as it spins around. The whale has repeatedly come to the captain to get its head picked, he told The Dodo. It shows a grey whale approaching the small tourist boat as the captain, identified as Paco Jimenez Franco, starts picking whale lice off its head. Speaking about his first one-on-one encounter with the whale, Franco said: "Once I removed the first one, she approached again so that I could continue to do so."

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Persons: Grey, —, Paco Jimenez Franco, Franco, Mark Carwardine, Carwardine, orcas, Joshua Zitser Organizations: Service, Facebook, Guardian Locations: Mexico, Ojo, Mexico's Baja, British, Baja California, Portuguese, Strait, Gibraltar