Gray Whale (Noun)
Meaning
Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Gray whales migrate long distances each year through shallow coastal waters, making them rich feeding grounds for predators.
- Entanglement in fishing nets and collisions with ships are major threats to gray whales.
- The gray whale's diet consists mainly of small crustaceans and plankton which it sucks into its filtering baleen.
- In the late nineteenth century, the gray whale was brought to the brink of extinction by overhunting.
- As a result, gray whales have made a remarkable recovery, and their population in the Pacific has nearly doubled since the early 2000s.