"We have footage of whale calves trying to copy this behavior ... rather than traveling north to the Arctic as most of the 19,000 gray whales in the Eastern North Pacific population do.
More information: Clara N. Bird et al, Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics, Animal Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.06.004 Clara N.
For seven years, the researchers have been watching a smaller group of gray whales who have been feeding right off the coast of Newport. The largest population of gray whales swims right here ...
Drone footage captured by Oregon State University researchers off the coast of Newport offers new insights into how a gray whale’s size affects its foraging behavior and what role social ...
Pacific Coast Gray Whales Have Gotten 13% Shorter in the ... cultural and ecosystem benefits of offshore removal or decomposition of whale remains. The study tracked the remains of a humpback ...
"The first question we used a drone to answer was 'how big is that whale?' Which is a super basic question, but for something as big as a gray whale, we can't answer that question unless that ...