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Definition: Gray Whale |
Gray WhaleNoun1. Medium-sized grayish-black whale of the north Pacific. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Gray WhaleSynonym: devilfish (n). (additional references) |
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| Eschrichtius robustus |
Two Pacific Ocean populations of Gray Whales exist: one small population travelling between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one travelling between the waters off Alaska and the Baja California. A third, North Atlantic, population was hunted to extinction 300 years ago.
In the fall, the California Gray Whale starts a 2-3 month, 8 000 - 11 000 km trip south along the west coast of the United States and Mexico. The animals travel in small groups. The destinations of the whales are the coastal waters of Baja California and the southern Sea of Cortez, where they breed and the young are born. The breeding behavior is complex and often involves three or more animals. The gestation period is about one year, and females have calves every other year. The calf is born head-first. It is believed that the shallow waters in the lagoons there protect the newborn from sharks. After several weeks, the return trip starts. This roundtrip of 16 000 - 22 000 km is believed to be the longest yearly migration of any mammal. A whale watching industry has sprung up along the coast.
The whale feeds mainly on benthic crustaceans which it eats sideways from the sea floor. It is classified as a baleen whale and has a baleen, or whalebone, which acts like a sieve to capture amphipods taken in along with sand, water and other material. Mostly, the animal feeds in the northern waters during the summer; during its migration trip, it mainly lives off its extensive fat reserves.
Gray Whales are covered by characteristic gray-white patterns, scars left by parasites which dropped off in the cold feeding grounds.
The only predators of adult Gray Whales are humans and Killer Whales. After the California Gray Whales' breeding grounds were discovered in 1857, the animals were hunted to near extinction there. After harvesting became inefficient because of dwindling numbers, the population recovered slowly, but with the advent of factory ships in the 20th century, the numbers declined again. Gray whales have been protected by international agreement since 1946, and are not hunted anymore. As of 2001, the population of California Gray Whales has grown back to about 26,000 animals.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gray Whale."
Crosswords: Gray Whale |
| English words defined with "gray whale": Hardhead ♦ Mussel digger. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |
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 | Aerial view of a gray whale - Eschrichtius robustus. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Gray whale - Eschrichtius robustus - at Scammons Lagoon. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Gray whale trapped in Arctic ice north of Point Barrow. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Gray whale trapped in the ice in the Bering Sea Joint American-Russian effort ultimately saved 2 out 3 trapped whales. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fig. 1. The sperm whale. Fig. 2. The California gray whale. Fig. 3 The North Pacific humpback whale. Fig. 4. The sulphur-bottom whale Fig. 5. The finback or Oregon finner Fig. 6. The Pacific right whale Fig. 7. The bowhead whale. From Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1876 Natural History in Section I of this report. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 11. The Finback of the Pacific. Balaenoptera velifera, Cope. The California Gray Whale, or Devil-Fish. Rhachianectes glaucus, Cope. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Closeup of a gray whale blowhole showing large assemblage of barnacles. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Gray whale bone exhibit. Credit: Aldrich Pears. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gray whale | 91 |
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| Language | Translations for "gray whale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | grijze walvis (California gray, devil fish, gray back, grey whale, hard head, mussel digger, rip sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | baleine grise (California gray, gray back, grey whale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Grauwal (California gray, devil fish, gray back, grey whale, hard head, mussel digger, rip sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | balena grigia (California gray, devil fish, gray back, grey whale, hard head, mussel digger, rip sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aygray alewhay baleia cinzenta (California gray, devil fish, gray back, grey whale, hard head, mussel digger, rip sack). (various references) ballena gris (California gray, devil fish, gray back, grey whale, hard head, mussel digger, rip sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eschrichtius glaucus, Eschrichtius robustus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-l-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: haylage. | |
-3 letters: aglare, alegar, argyle, aweary, laager, lawyer, whaler. | |
-4 letters: aargh, agley, alary, algae, alway, areal, argal, argle, aware, early, galah, galea, gayal, gayer, gerah, glare, glary, graal, gyral, haler, hayer, lager, lahar, large, layer, leary, rawly, rayah, regal, relay, wager, waler, weary, whale, wheal, yager. | |
-5 letters: aery, agar, ager, agha, agly, alae, alar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 61 79 57 68 61 6C 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100001 01111001 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r a y   W h a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0061 0079 0057 0068 0061 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4184679125774677871 |
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