#Gray Whales

[antiqueanimals]

Gray whale. These are Endangered; written by Charles Cadieux and illustrated by Bob Hines. 1981.

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#marine life #mammals #cetaceans #whales #gray whales #Bob Hines

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It's Tell a Friend Friday!

Please enjoy this photo I took of the Discovery Trail's gray whale skeleton and carvings in Long Beach, WA. Then tell someone you know about my work--you can reblog this post, or send it to someone you think may be interested in my natural history writing, classes, and tours. Here's where I can be found online:

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#whales #gray whales #whale skeleton #vulture culture #bones #animal bones #dead things #ocean #beach #Washington #PNW #Pacific Northwest

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Reuters:

The number of gray whales migrating along the Pacific Coast of North America has steadily declined by nearly 40% from a 2016 peak, and the population produced its fewest calves on record this year, according to U.S. research released on Friday.

The 38% drop from the population's 2016 high of 27,000 whales to 16,650 this year resembles previous fluctuations but warrants further attention, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Administration (NOAA) report said.

Researchers at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego said the latest decline, though not fully explained, likely entails several factors including environmental changes that have shifted the whales' food sources of tiny crustaceans and other invertebrates they prey on in the Arctic.

"Given the continuing decline in numbers since 2016, we need to be closely monitoring the population to understand what may be driving this trend," David Weller, director of the center's marine mammal and turtle division, said in comments announcing the findings.

A spike in gray whale strandings detected along the West Coast of North America from Mexico through Alaska two years ago prompted NOAA Fisheries to declare an "unusual mortality event" for the population in 2019, triggering closer scrutiny of the phenomenon.

The overall population slump among West Coast gray whales coincides with diminished reproduction, researchers found.

The most recent count of baby whales that ended in May estimated calf production this year at about 217 newborns, down from 383 calves tallied last year and the lowest number since such counts began in 1994, NOAA fisheries said.

Gray whales, one of the largest animals on Earth weighing up to 41 tons and reaching lengths of 49 feet (15 meters), are known for their visible annual 10,000-mile (16,000-km) migration between feeding grounds in the Arctic and breeding grounds in Baja Mexico.

#gray whales #US Pacific coast

[cgandrews3]

#antarctica #australia #baleen #blue whales #climate change #conservation #el nino #endangered species #environment #global warming #gray whales #humpback whales #international whaling commission #krill #la nina #natural habitat adventures #nathab #nature #nature lovers #orcas #science #scientific research #southern australia #southern ocean #whales #whaling #wild #wildlife #world wildlife fund #wwf

[seaofkimchi]

Yay living, healthy whales 🐋 🩵

#gray whales #life is but a dream #nature #grateful #the ocean is my home #gray whale migration 2024

[rgmoregon]

Whale Watching in Depoe Bay

We booked a fantastic whale watching trip today at Depoe Bay with Dockside Charters and Whale Watching Tours. We had an amazing boat captain and the weather was perfect at 64°F. We were able to see a lot of whale activity. These are resident gray whales to the Oregon coast. Learn more about these majestic creatures and other marine life at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife site. Enjoy…

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#Coast #Depoe Bay #Gray Whales #Oregon #PNW #Whale Watching #Youtube

[ballpitwitch]

KEANU REEVES | DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY DREAM | FENDER

#*sounds only whales understand* #Keanu Reeves #kreevesedit #keanuedit #mancandykings #dilfgifs #dilfedit #* #i will give you 43 cents a cookie and a glass of wine if you let me play with your hair #BOYFRIEND SHAPED #it's the backwards hat for me #it so delightfully soft warm quiet lazy boyfriend coded to me for some reason #dude's got limbs like one of those wacky waving inflatable tube men #me 5'4": i will pick him up #like picking up one of those giant teddy bears #GRAY HAIRS #me @ me: stop terrorizing the elderly #i can't believe i've met this dude that seems fake #hands so big they could hold two ankles at once #omg who said that #A SMILEY BOY #*runs hand down his forearm like it's a staircase bannister* #....that was a tag i've already used? #i mean i believe it and it's totally true but im just wondering how much gin was involved

[namu-the-orca]

Here it finally is, the full cetacean eye colour info sheet! A long time coming, and an even longer time in the making. I hope that all you cetacean eye curious people will find this one as fascinating as the killer whale eye colour post. It’s a wild world out there! 

#illustrations #namtalk #info sheet #infographic #tutorial #cetacean eye colour #eyes #dolphin eye #whale eye #anatomy #bottlenose dolphin #spinner dolphin #humpback whale #killer whale #orca #false killer whale #gray whale #AT LONG LAST #THE CETACEAN EYE THING IS HERE #I really hope you all enjoy!! #and that it was worth the wait #i started this almost 2 years ago rofl

[heartnosekid]

dancing with a gentle giant, the whale shark | source

#stim #whale sharks #whale shark #sea creatures #sfw #blue #black #gray #grey #white #diving #divers #people #animals #carpet sharks #rhincodon typus #chondrichthyans #hands #underwater #water #nature #ishy gifs #postish

[antiqueanimals]

Walt Disney's White Wilderness: Animals of the Arctic. By Robert Louvain and the Staff of the Walt Disney Studio. 1958.

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#marine life #mammals #cetaceans #whales #right whales #sperm whales #blue whales #humpback whales #fin whales #gray whales #beaked whales #orcas #narwhals #belugas #porpoises #bottlenose dolphins #common dolphins

[agere-pngs]

Misc. Ocean Themed Backpacks

#agere pngs #bags #blue #ocean #shark #orange #fish #whale #gray #teal #red #age dreaming #age regression #agere community #safe age regression #sfw agere #safe agere #sfw agedre #agere blog #misc. #masc agere

[red-umbrella-811]

You know I want you to reblog this so I get more answers

#dracula daily #whale weekly #war & peace and emails #dorian gray weekly #letters from watson #the woman in white weekly #literary letters #voyage of the nautilus #Sun stacks #classic lit #classic literature #tumblr #blue hellsite #polls #Frankenstein #the beetle weekly

[cgandrews3]

#animal behavior #australia #biodiversity #candice gaukel andrews #cetaceans #climate change #conservation #drones #environment #global warming #gray whales #great migration #hummingbirds #humpback whale #kelp #mexico #migrations #monarch butterfly #nathab #natural habitat adventures #nature #nature video #photography #right whale #science #science and environment #scientific research #sierra madre #spy camera #video

[jonathanspaprika]

i am drowning in emails but jonathan harker takes precedence i’m sorry

#yes i’ve read it before #yes i will prioritize it over all the other ones #it’s just THAT elite #dracula daily #jonathan harker #dd may #substacks #classic lit #frankenstein weekly #whale weekly #letters from watson #dorian gray weekly #<- for a second i lived in a world where ch 13 of dorian gray had never happened :((

[pangeen]

“ Heart-shaped breath “ // © Daina Buchner

Music:  Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch - Joi

#Baja #California #United States #nature #seascape #oceanscape #wildlife #marine life #gray whale #4K #8K #12K #fpv #drone #reels #aesthetics #wanderlust #explore #follow #discover

[moonshynecybin]

it’s probably been said already but rosquez howl’s moving castle

INSANE!!!!!!! vale's tiny earring vaguely androgynous wizard swag... old man marc... this got long?? under the cut

and see the thing is. i think this is a unique kind of torture for someone like marc. truly. like marc knows he's hot. marc enjoys people thinking he's hot. even in this universe, where he's sadly running the family shop so alex doesnt have to, i simply must believe he has six pack abs and is in fact invested in making people look at them. like he views his body as a machine, hes very active, he would NOT enjoy all of the new aches and pains and limitations that come with being magically EIGHTY. so after the witch of the wastes (uccio?? someone jealous and in love with vale LMAOO) brushes in to the hatshop that night and hates marc on sight/fundamentally alters his body, i think he IMMEDIATELY starts militantly looking for a solution.

the solution: the wizard valentino is this oft elusive but INCREDIBLY charismatic wizard known by whisper and rumor to a. be insanely powerful and b. eat the HEARTS out of his young suitors. and marc (CRAZY MAN.) goes oh well im not hot anymore so he wont do that to me. i will make him fix me! and then he invites himself into vale's home and refuses to leave! says i am your new HOUSEKEEPER. and you will help me break my curse thank you :)

BUT: instead of a mystical and powerful wizard, hes confronted with the HOT GUY that he met several weeks ago that he helped escape from the witch of the waste's GOONS. he was like. walking home. and vale (in his big poofy shirt) whisks him into a scheme... looks at marc all bright eyed mischief... and marc hasnt had any enrichment in his enclosure in so long and just feels LIT UP from the inside, falls into step with vale immediately, matching him as they go. feels ALIVE for the first time since alex took his apprenticeship in another town... so he helps vale escape, flirts with him a LOT and laughs even more. smitten. but crucially and unfortunately, he also has NO idea who vale is throughout this. so later when he walks in the door and finds out that the guy he has a major crush on is also THE WIZARD VALENTINO. who also has a small FLEET of HIGHLY SKEPTICAL teen boy apprentices that marc is now kind of in charge of coparenting and like. convincing to clean their rooms, its a bit of an insane time to be marc.

so some WILD but highly amusing control freak behavior from marc ensues.. lots of little frictions as he arrives... pushback from the kids, vale acting cold and dismissive, a brand new body that doesnt do what he wants it to do... but after a while, marc MAKES space for himself. forcibly improves their lives. settles in to a FAMILY and CRUCIALLY starts emotionally fulfilling the little feral animal inside him that yearns to throw himself off of motorcycles at high speeds. get this many adrenaline seeking freaks that know MAGIC in one place and they are inventing new types of danger Know This. marc is with vale and the kids doing insane shit. and for the first time since he took over his family's shop, he is allowing himself to do what he LOVES. find his purpose. enjoy a community. relieve some of the crushing weight of familial responsibility. its literally the best hes ever felt. and he is. SO in love. so so in love.

BUT im gonna pull something from the novel here: marc is also an incredibly powerful sorcerer. has been forever. he just has NO IDEA. like i see marc literally his entire life using magic in little ways to influence all of the crazy thrill seeking stuff that he's done, but entirely unintentionally. but vale fucking knows. could see it the second they met. in FACT. marc has already broken his curse (marc doesnt know that). but he likes sticking around vale. so he's unconsciously keeping himself old so he can avoid leaving. truly, like when he isnt thinking about his body and hes normal and happy he looks like his actual age. marc with silver hair just laughing with vale and the boys... smile lines staying there but wrinkles fading more and more as time passes... he doesnt want to go back to his old life!!! back to being unremarkable in the hatshop like he knows he should!!! and everytime he remembers he looks decades older... but vale doesnt want to lose him either. so he doesnt tell him. but he also vant make a move with it hanging over them like that... so they live in a fraught equilibrium of pining that is also lowkey a marriage LMAO. like you are coparenting. jesus.

EYE THINK. that the breaking point here is alex returning at some point. talking with marc. and marc is. SO happy to see alex. smiling as hard as he can. but also he looks older than he's looked since he first arrived. all of that responsibility and guilt rushing back for abandoning his life at the hatshop. and it TEARS into vale like omg i am keeping him here selfishly away from his brother.... so he sends him away, "breaks" his curse. and marc thinks hes being DUMPED. and thats how the divorce happens....

#crucially. he takes marc back to normal ass italy at some point. like howl does in the book where hes a rugby player from whales #this is post divorce nad they have a ranch dayyyyyyy #motogp #callie speaks #asks #rosquez #vale staring at marc sleeping under the stairs. hair gray but face unlined when hes dreaming.... when he isnt putting everything on himself