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Grey Whale, Italy (1 Viewer)

According to the FB post, the size of it (7-8m) means it was born last winter. It also means that it's not a vagrant from the Pacific, but was born over here somewhere..!
 
Apparently it's been accurately measured and the latest theory is that it is abnormally small, was born in Jan 2020 presumably in the Pacific and has come though the North West Passage to the Atlantic last autumn.
 
Apparently it's been accurately measured and the latest theory is that it is abnormally small, was born in Jan 2020 presumably in the Pacific and has come though the North West Passage to the Atlantic last autumn.
If that's the case then perhaps we can look forward to more Pacific cetaceans in the Atlantic given the ice shrinkage. Maybe even pinnipeds.... did anyone ever get to the bottom of that Steller's [Northern] Sealion in Cornwall?

John
 
Maybe - but note that the climate currently is still colder than few 100 years ago. So all the Pacific sea mammals and birds had plenty of time to visit the Atlantic through the ice-free Northern passage during the Medieval Warm period, Roman Warm Period etc.
 
Maybe - but note that the climate currently is still colder than few 100 years ago. So all the Pacific sea mammals and birds had plenty of time to visit the Atlantic through the ice-free Northern passage during the Medieval Warm period, Roman Warm Period etc.
I think at that pre-industrial whaling time there actually was an Atlantic Grey Whale population? That would anyway camouflage vagrants from the Pacific, even if the two groups didn't routinely mix then.

However, you give me a little hope for the Polar Bears, if they have got through previous ice retreats.

John
 
I think at that pre-industrial whaling time there actually was an Atlantic Grey Whale population? That would anyway camouflage vagrants from the Pacific, even if the two groups didn't routinely mix then.

However, you give me a little hope for the Polar Bears, if they have got through previous ice retreats.

John
It would open your North West passage if you found one of these on a Welsh beach!
 
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If that's the case then perhaps we can look forward to more Pacific cetaceans in the Atlantic given the ice shrinkage. Maybe even pinnipeds.... did anyone ever get to the bottom of that Steller's [Northern] Sealion in Cornwall?

John
I'm not sure if I'm confusing things here, but didn't that Sealion come from Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg?
 
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