General Characteristics

Head to body length - 35-50 ft (10.6-15 m)

Tail length -  12 ft (3.6 m)

Height : 25 cm ( 10 inches )

Weight : 20-40 tons (18-36 metric tons)

Fin size - 4-5 ft (1.2-1.5 m)

Range - Gray Whales live in North to the Arctic for summer feeding go South to warm-water Antarctic Arctic regions throughout distribution throughout world's oceans.

Habitat - It lives in lagoons and shallow seabed's.

Diet -  They eat worms,starfish,shrimp,and other small creatures.

Status -   There is only 100-200 only left of the western pacific gray whale remaining in the wild. The atlantic population has disappeared. Overall there is fewer than 2,000. of total gray whale population.

Reason for the status -  This is because of people using them for oil, baleen, meat and hunting by native Americans.

What type of animal is it - Carnivore 

Description

Gray whales have mottled gray skin which sometimes seems to look slate-blue or marbled white and its head arches between its blowhole and snout - gray whales have relatively small heads. They don't have a dorsal fin, instead there is a low hump with between 6 and 12 knuckles between the hump and the tail. Their flippers are small and paddle-shaped. Their baleen plates are about 50cm in length. Grey whales have what look like yellow spots on their skin, these are, in fact, small parasitic crustaceans. Many cetaceans are infested with these although not always the same type - some parasites live on only one type of whale. The gray whale is more heavily infested with a greater variety than any other cetacean

Gestation Period  : 13 months

Longevity -  30 - 60 years