Blue whales usually migrate south for the winter months, mating and giving birth in the warmer waters off Mexico and Central America.
has been spotted off the California coast, placing the gargantuan creature thousands of miles away from where they are normally found during Christmas.on December 19. Also seen in the video was a variety of other species encountered on the same excursion, including a humpback, a group of gray whales, and a pod of Risso's dolphins.
Screenshot from the Monterey Bay Whale Watch video, taken by Evan Brodsky, showing the blue whale. Blue whales are rarely seen as far north as California during the winter.Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth. They can grow to as long as 98 feet, the length of a Boeing 737-500 aircraft or three school buses lined up in a row.
"A blue whale is typically something we see in the summertime," Evan Brodsky, Monterey Bay Whale Watches' resident cinematographer and naturalist, told."This past summer we saw a blue whale on maybe one out of every five trips. There are only about 10,000 blue whales left in the entire Pacific Ocean. Blue whales use Monterey as a feeding grounds to feed on krill in the summer and in the winter they usually migrate south to warmer waters to mate and give birth.
"To see one in our area in December is very rare. Blue whales are an endangered animal as it is, they are not as common as the humpback whales we usually see every day," Brodsky said.
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