{"id":11345,"date":"2022-12-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:05:44","slug":"magical-moments-giant-gray-whales-come-close-to-boaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/magical-moments-giant-gray-whales-come-close-to-boaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical moments\u2019: Giant gray whales come close to boaters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gray-whales-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gray-whales-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gray-whales-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gray-whales-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gray-whales.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a group in Mexico\u2019s Baja California were graced with a view of their life when they saw massive gray whales hovering close to their boats. The stunning visuals of these marine creatures&nbsp;<strong>coming close to the humans<\/strong>&nbsp;were captured in a now-viral video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video, originally credited to wildlife ecotourism operator Nathalia Mf and marine biologist Juan Perusqu\u00eda, was shared by a popular Instagram account named Beautiful Earth (beautiffulearth) on December 3.The short clip soon gathered over 50,000 likes. In the comments, people were either mesmerised by the whales or&nbsp;<strong>terrified by their proximity to the boat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Echoing the former sentiment, a Twitter user wrote, \u201cHonestly I would\u2019ve passed out on that little boat it\u2019s cute and all but NO lls maybe from a helicopter view\u201d. However another person wrote, \u201cThey seem like such gentle giants. I could watch and listen to this all day!!! \u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oceanic Society, a non-profit organisation dedicated to conserving marine wildlife, says the gray whales occupy Baja California\u2019s lagoons from December to early April as their breeding ground after they undertake their annual migration from the Arctic.It also noted on its website the Baja California lagoons are the only places where gray whales seek contact with humans by \u201capproaching and rubbing against boats and loitering at or just below the surface while accepting rubs and pats from obliging travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a group in Mexico\u2019s Baja California were graced with a view of their life when they saw massive gray whales hovering close to their boats. The stunning visuals of these marine creatures&nbsp;coming close to the humans&nbsp;were captured in a now-viral video. The video, originally credited to wildlife ecotourism operator Nathalia Mf and marine biologist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[757,15493,15492,15478],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-candid-moments","tag-cloud","tag-magical","tag-wow"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}