Here he is, off the coast of Israel
From the article:
A gray whale has appeared off the coast of Israel, shocking conservationists.
Gray whales are thought to be extinct across the Atlantic Ocean, so the appearance of an individual within the Mediterranean Sea is a major surprise.
The whale may have inadvertently travelled a huge distance from its natural habitat thousands of kilometres away in the Pacific Ocean.
However, it raises the possibility that gray whales have returned to former haunts in the western hemisphere.
"This discovery is truly amazing. Today, gray whales only inhabit the Pacific Ocean, so to find one in the North Atlantic, let alone the Mediterranean Sea, is bizarre in the extreme," says Nicola Hodgins of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), which has its headquarters in Wiltshire, UK.
Your average human next to your average gray whale (image from Wiki)
Aww that's the saddest looking whale ever :(
ReplyDeleteHe's sort of a stick figure whale. I suspect all stick figures are sad at some level. They must just feel sort of unfulfilled.
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