Natural History Wanderings

The San Francisco Chronicle reports

One of the rarest whales in the world was just spotted in Monterey Bay. A North Pacific right whale, one of an estimated 30-odd individuals along the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Coast, was seen by a whale-watching boat Sunday, making it one of very few sightings in California over the decades.

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