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Time to Go Again
After a few short months in the Arctic, the seasons are changing again. Northern days grow shorter. Water temperatures drop. Ice starts to form. The food supply dwindles in fewer hours of sunlight. Gray whales know what to do. They head for Mexico's warm waters, thousands of miles to the south. Our baby whale will make his first journey south, independent of his mom.

Three gray whales in waters off Alaska.
Image: Bree Witteveen