Now gray whales in Baja California frequently interact with humans in a remarkable shift.
The video showed a gray whale right beside a boat, allowing the captain to pick whale lice off its head.
Still, the fact that the gray whales of the Baja lagoons interact with boats and humans at all baffles researchers.
The gray whales then make the longest migration of any mammal, with most traveling more than 10,000 miles to their foraging grounds near Alaska.
Hunting gray whales is illegal, with some exceptions for Indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, and Mexico.
Persons:
Gray, that's, Andrew Trites, Trites, he's, Guillermo Arias, Leigh Torres, Torres, it's
Organizations:
Service, Marine Mammal Research, University of British, Getty, Oregon State, Mammal Institute
Locations:
Baja California, Wall, Silicon, Ojo, Baja, University of British Columbia, Alaska, Pacific, Canada, Mexico, Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Coast, Pacific Northwest, Oregon