Grey whales are typically pretty solitary animals but we are beginning to understand more about their socialization.
They are known to meet up with the same whale, year after year, in the same feeding areas. As naturalists we have started to track the individuals showing these patterns of association, which are characterized by synchronized behaviors within one whale length of each other.
Sometimes there isn’t much more to their behavior than being really squished together to feed on the same abundance of food – such as during the herring spawn in the photo below!
-Marcie
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