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Buttons
Buttons is a chameleon, as he has been misidentified on three separate occasions!
First Sighted: 2012
Sex: Male
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Clouds
Clouds, and her son Cheetah, are a mom-calf pair that we have documented every year of our study since Cheetah’s birth in 2016!
First Sighted: 1995
Sex: Female
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Equal
Equal's unfortunate encounter with a boat propeller has provided us a fascinating insight into a gray whale's stress response!
First Sighted: 2015
Sex: Male
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick gets her name because she has a whiter pigmentation than most other gray whales, much like the famous white sperm whale in Moby Dick.
First Sighted: 2002
Sex: Female
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Orange Knuckles
Orange Knuckles is a mature male gray whale who likes the ladies!
AKA: Ridgeback
First Sighted: 1999
Sex: Male
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Pacman
Pacman was born in 2014 to Scarlett and has since been learning how to feed in Oregon’s complex coastal waters.
First Sighted: 2014
Sex: Female
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Roller Skate
Roller Skate is a tough lady as she survived a traumatic entanglement around her fluke!
First Sighted: 2015
Sex: Female
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Scarlett
Scarlett is perhaps the most iconic and well-known gray whale along our coast!
AKA: Scarback
First Sighted: 1996
Sex: Female
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Sole
Solé seems to be a true Oregonian – a home body who knows what she likes and sticks with it!
AKA: Bullseye
First Sighted: 1999
Sex: Female
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Zorro
We used to see Zorro regularly, but not lately…Why has he not been around?