The Gray Whale, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the enigmatic gray whale, noted today for its vast oceanic migrations and curiosity, but known as “devilfish” for its ferocity by the American whalers who hunted it in the past.
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| 1:54.1 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Joe McCormick. We're back |
| 1:59.4 | with part 2 of our series on Gray Whales inspired by a first-hand encounter that Rob had recently, |
| 2:06.0 | right? That's right. Yeah, going to a detail a bit more about this in the first episode, but basically |
| 2:13.2 | the family and I got to go down to Baja California, Mexico to see gray whales in their breeding |
| 2:22.1 | lagoons and it was magical. We got to observe them in their most peaceful setting. And so we're |
| 2:30.4 | going to talk a little bit about that setting today, but also their cycle a lot. They go through |
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