Pacific 'Whale Without a Tail' Seems to Be Doing Fine Pete Thomas - GrindTV
go to original March 25, 2015

Possible Fishing Gear Entanglement Amputates Gray Whale (Dolphin Safari)

Had passengers aboard the Dana Pride not seen the gray whale surface and blow a plume of mist into the air, they would not have had any idea what they were looking at.

What protruded from the surface, in hazy evening light Sunday beyond Dana Point in Southern California, resembled some sort of alien being.  But it was the gray whale’s tail section, minus the fluke; one of the rarest sights the crew had ever seen.

The flukeless whale or, as others have described, the “whale without a tail,” was spotted a day earlier off Point Loma in San Diego, traveling alone. It was traveling solo again Sunday off Dana Point, but on Monday it was spotted off Point Vicente in Los Angeles County joining two other gray whales on the northbound migration.

Remarkably, the flukeless whale seems to be getting along fine without a broad rear fin the cetaceans use for thrust while swimming and diving, and to plane and steer.

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