Incredible Whale Encounter - Mother Gray Whale Lifts Her Calf Out of the Water! [HD]
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Published on Mar 14, 2012
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A mother gray whale lifted up her calf, seemingly to help it get a better view of the excited onlookers, and we caught it all on camera.
For in-depth information on the whales of San Ignacio and regulations of the area, see our blog post at http://www.oneworldoneocean.org/blog/...
The gray whales in San Ignacio Lagoon frequently approach small tourist boats, seeking the human interaction. While they could easily avoid the people, whose small boats are not allowed to closely approach whales, they actually seem to enjoy making contact.
Laguna San Ignacio is on the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula and is the destination for hundreds of gray whales, who migrate annually to the region from their feeding grounds in the Arctic. Here, where the water is shallow and warm, they give birth to their young. It lies within El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve and is the gray whale's last undisturbed nursing and breeding ground, largely thanks to an environmental victory in 2000 that stopped the development of an industrial salt plant.
Whale watching here is highly regulated, with limits on how many boats can be on the water, how long they can stay, and how close they can get; rather than closely approaching the whales, they must idle their engine and wait for the whales to approach the vessel, which is a common occurrence.
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Dmitry Zinenko 1 month ago
why do people have to touch everything?!
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McPrfctday 2 weeks ago
She might be telling the calf all about these creatures - they spend most of their time out of the water, they are warm like us and they like to touch us and look 'at' us in the eyes. The dolphins tell many many stories of gentleness and kindness - not in every place in the sea - but in most places. Assuming they have at least some vocabulary. It might be a once in a lifetime experience for the calf just as it is for the humans. Who knows.
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Noah Winchester 1 day ago
Who invited their wife? God she's annoying.
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Len Kagamine 1 day ago
it's a swimming trex
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Gulliver Brown 2 days ago
that is incredible.
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Phoenixmike100 3 days ago
WHY OH WHY !!!!!!! Do women have to fucking scream. It is the most anoying thing on earth, and in this case, probably scared off the whale. Did any one hear the whales screaming back at the humans??? If I had been there and had paid good money for the trip, which it appears as everyone did, I would have been forced to toss that woman into the drink. Then, maybe the whales would have given her a ride to shore on their backs..Yee Haaa.
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Anita Chavez 3 days ago
I'm from Argentina, and I went to see the Southern right whales it was amazinggg, I loved it and I'll do it again a thousand times :D ♥
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EGarrett01 3 days ago
It's a way of connecting more with another living thing, and also to experience more about it. Not everything people do is a cause for you to hate human nature.
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njidechu 3 days ago
One learns as one gets older.
I have a hell of a lot of respect for white Gentiles. They are very inquisitive. They are very spiritual -- not necessarily religious, but spiritual. Even when they make mistakes (racism, pollution, and other social ills), they learn from their mistakes.
These wonderful people are touching the whales because they realize their relationship to other creatures, and how wonderful it is when a creature shows them the same interest and concern they show to them.
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ThaiGoalie 4 days ago
Is that bitch autistic or something?
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lockudlad 4 days ago
Have you never touched or stroked anything, a car, a loved pet, a beautiful woman. Have you ever held your own new born in your arms and felt the small, perfectly formed, fingers clutching around your big cumbersome looking finger. It's a wonderful feeling. These animals would not come in so close if they did not want the contact and interaction they had with these people. Wht do you think the mother whale brought her young child? She wanted to show the child to the poeple. She was a proud mum.
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