have been dying at alarming rates off the Pacific Coast, so much so that it was deemed an Unusual Mortality Event by federal officials.“It feels like this time we've got a pretty good smoking gun,” said Josh Stewart, an assistant professor at Oregon State’s Marine Mammal Institute and the lead author on the study. “We can now say much more conclusively that it is probably Arctic conditions that are driving these things.
Despite the problems they’re facing, Stewart said he’s not worried that gray whales will disappear completely. At least not in the short term.“They're resilient animal. They're adaptive,” he said. “They can change the areas that they feed in. So I'm not worried about them going extinct.
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