Lost Gray Whale Surfaces Again in the Mediterranean : Discovery News: "On May 30, at about 4.30 p.m. local time, researchers saw the whale off the coast of Spain, near Barcelona. Comparative photographs confirm it was the same one that was seen off Israel (then again, it would be an even more remarkable story if it were not, and there were more than one gray whale swimming around the Mediterranean). The whale, having somehow found its way through the Strait of Gibraltar and traveled east as far as it could, has now made it back to the western side of the sea.
Speculation alert: Right about now, its brethren in the Pacific population it has left behind are swimming north toward the Arctic; it is possible, perhaps even likely, that instinct is urging our wayward whale to do the same, and that it is looking for a way around the Iberian Peninsula in an attempt to do so."
Speculation alert: Right about now, its brethren in the Pacific population it has left behind are swimming north toward the Arctic; it is possible, perhaps even likely, that instinct is urging our wayward whale to do the same, and that it is looking for a way around the Iberian Peninsula in an attempt to do so."
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