The Description of the Gray Whale
The Gray Whale grows to a length of 45 feet and my
weigh more than 30 tons. It has one, two, or four grooves under its throat
and its yellowish baleen is more than a foot and a half long. The skin
is mottled black, gray, and white. They are usually covered with
barnacles and whale lice.
Migration
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They can be found only in the North Pacific Ocean.
Gray whales migrate between the coast of northern
Mexico and the northern Bering Sea. Gray whales make a 10,000 mile
trip from Alaska to Mexico to mate and have their young. Migration is one
way the gray whales adapt to changes in the seasons. In the summer, the
gray whales go north and n the winter the female whales go south
to give birth.
Diet
The diet of gray whales consists mainly of invertebrates
. The whale sucks in mud along with it food then spits out the muddy water