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Surprising number of gray whale strandings in Washington in 2025 are ahead of normal pace and suggest a possible continuation of elevated mortality

Gray whale strandings, which occur during the spring months when whales migrate past the Washington coast, began this year on

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First gray whale assigned a photo-ID

CRC-01 was identified by John Calambokidis on 24 May 1986. The gray whale catalog currently contains over 2,300 individual whales.

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Cascadia featured in new documentary about the recovery of humpback and gray whale populations along the West Coast

This documentary was produced by the Seattle Channel and was in part motivated by some of the high profile sightings

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Post-unusual mortality event monitoring begins in Washington State with the examination of 2 dead gray whales and an entangled gray whale response

With the official closure of the 2019-2023 Gray Whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME) comes a new phase: post-UME monitoring of

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Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) Post-Mortem Findings from December 2018 through 2021 during the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific

Beginning in December 2018, increased numbers of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) strandings were reported along the west coast of Mexico,

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Using Accelerometry Tags to Quantify Gray Whale Foraging Behavior

High-resolution tri-axial accelerometry biologging tags have quantitatively described behaviors in baleen whale species that forage using lunges and continuous ram

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Observations of Tissue Healing Around an Implanted “C” Tag in a Pacific Coast Feeding Group Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

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Gray whale necropsy April 4, 2023

A gray whale that was reported dead in the shallows of Fox Island in southern Puget Sound on 1 April

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Gray Whale Sex, Reproductive Behavior, and Social Strategies

Gray whale sexual behavior and copulation are observed throughout their range. The most prominent period for reproductive behavior is during

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Two Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) Sightings off Hawaiʻi Island: The First Records for the Central Tropical Pacific

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