Gray Whale Skeleton, Santa Cruz
- by John Holt
- 2017-10-10
- 6 media
- 6 available
This gray whale was stranded in south San Francisco bay in 1990.
This skeleton illustrates the unique feeding posture of gray whales.
Grays swim on their sides just above the sea floor, sucking mud into one side of mouths,
to get at shrimp-like crustaceans called amphipods.
The California gray whale has an estimated population of 22,000 to 26,000
Thanks for visiting Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz!