Fits the description of the above-mentioned mom. If a nursing calf is separated from its mother, it usually means death by starvation for the baby. Sea World has put the baby in one of its pools where they will attempt to feed it formula. Here's wishing the calf good luck and success to the whale researchers in California. Link to story about Baby Gray Whale separated from mother during migration.
Collisions are the number one direct cause of death for right whales.
The right whales swim along a stretch of the US coastline that includes some of the busiest ports for commercial and military ships. A similar early warning network is now beginning up north in the spring feeding grounds of Cape Cod Bay and the Great South Channel off Cape Cod. Until April 9th, this is Anne Smrcina from the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary signing off. The Next Right Whale Migration Update Will be Posted on April 9, 1997.