The Gray Whale makes the longest known migration of any mammal, traveling up to 14,000 miles round-trip between Arctic feeding grounds and warm Mexican lagoon breeding areas. It is a bottom feeder that rolls on its side to suction amphipods from seafloor sediments, leaving distinctive feeding pits visible from shore during low tide in Alaska. Gray whales were called 'devil fish' by whalers because females protecting calves would attack whaling boats.
Habitat
Arctic feeding grounds and shallow coastal migration routes
Diet
Amphipods, ghost shrimp, and tube worms from seafloor sediments
How common
Uncommon
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