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    Grey whales migrate approximately 10,000-12,000 miles per year between feeding grounds in the Arctic and lagoons in Mexico used for breeding. They migrate south from late December to early January to the breeding lagoons, where they stay until mid-February to mid-March to give birth and mate before migrating back north from late March to mid-April. Grey whales feed by sucking up sediment from the seafloor using their baleen plates and eat small organisms living in the sediment like amphipods.

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    Grey whales migrate approximately 10,000-12,000 miles per year between feeding grounds in the Arctic and lagoons in Mexico used for breeding. They migrate south from late December to early January to the breeding lagoons, where they stay until mid-February to mid-March to give birth and mate before migrating back north from late March to mid-April. Grey whales feed by sucking up sediment from the seafloor using their baleen plates and eat small organisms living in the sediment like amphipods.

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    Grey Whale

    Baifern

    Jinny

    Nene

    Ja

    Background Information
    Our group will research about Grey whale:

    - The pattern that cover around the whales look like the crusty
    rock. This pattern come from parasites and other small creature
    that stick to the whale back.
    - They stay close to the shore because they forage in shallow
    water
    - Weight: (27,200-36,300 kg)
    - Measure: Male-around 13.7 - 14 and female is slightly more

    Introduction
    -

    Greeting and introduce the members in the group


    Easy example for migration, like...
    A: oh, i think this place is too cold lets move.
    B: Umm oh, lets migrate.
    A: what do you mean by migrate?

    Turn face to the audiences and start talking about...


    =What is migration
    =Which animals have the longest migration

    ***Information
    -

    What?
    = Grey whale has the longest migration.
    = They migrate about 10,000-12,000 miles round trip every year.

    When it migrates? What months? What period? How long?

    = late December to early January begin to arrive the calving lagoons and bays of Baja
    California Sur.
    = mid-February to mid-March filling them with nursing / calving and mating gray whales.
    = Throughout February and March leave the lagoons
    = late March to mid-April leaving only when their calves are ready for the journey
    = late March or early April return

    Where does it migrate from? Where does it migrate to? Route?


    = They migrate between nursery lagoons in Mexico to feeding grounds in the Arctic

    Why it migrates?

    = These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the
    lagoons to bear their calves
    = Single females seek mates

    What do they eat and how they foraging?


    - They eat Amphipods, Cumaceans, Isopods, Mysids, and Plankton
    etc.
    - They forage by using their snout to make the living creature move
    from the seafloor and eat them by using the baleen(whale bone).

    Predator
    -

    Since the gray whale came near the shore, human then hunt this animal.

    Transient Killer whale: attack the calves when migrate

    Dispersal

    Dispersal between the Pacific and Atlantic


    Because Climate dependent
    Occurred During the Pleistocene prior to the last glacial period
    and the early Holocene immediately following the opening of the Bering Strait.

    Resident group
    A population of about 200 gray whales stay along the eastern Pacific coast from Canada to California
    throughout the summer, not making the farther trip to Alaskan waters. This summer resident group
    is known as the Pacific Coast feeding group.

    Reference

    Alter Elizabeth S. et al. (March 9,2015). Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitat in gray whales from the Pleistocene to
    2100. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13121/abstract
    Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus. (n.d.). Retrieved November 29, 2016, from
    http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/gray-whale/
    Grey Whale ( Eschrichtius robustus). (n.d.). Retrieved November 29, 2016, from http://wildwhales.org/grey-whale/
    Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2016, from http://acsonline.org/fact-sheets/gray-whale/
    Grey Whale Migration. (n.d.). Retrieved November 29, 2016, from https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/gwhale/annual/map.html
    What do Gray Whales eat?. (1997). Retrieved December 1 ,2016, from
    https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/gwhale/jr/photo/Food.html

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