A remarkable video shows the moment a gray whale sought help from a whale-watching captain in Mexico to have parasites picked off its head.
The footage, posted to Facebook in March, was taken by a passenger on a whale-watching boat operating in the Ojo de Liebre, a lagoon on the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
The whale remains for a while, spinning around long enough for Franco to give her a thorough cleaning as onlookers laugh.Franco, who has been working as a whale-watching captain for 20 years,that it took the whales some time to get comfortable around him before he was able to start picking lice off them.
"I have done it repeatedly, with the same whale and others. It is very exciting for me," Franco added. Mark Carwardine, a British zoologist with experience in the region, told The Guardian that gray whales have a"love-hate relationship with their whale lice."
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