![]() One of those remarkable encounters was captured in March in the Ojo de Liebre, a lagoon in Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Gray whales put up such a fight against whalers and their boats they earned the nickname "devil fish." Today, in the same places where the whales were hunted to the brink of extinction just decades ago, they swim right up to boats, enchanting and even befriending the people in them. ![]() Now gray whales in Baja California frequently interact with humans in a remarkable shift. They were known to fight back when harpooned, even damaging boats, earning the nickname "devil fish." Gray whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. Gray whales frequently approach boats and let humans touch them in the lagoons of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. ![]()
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