"Save the Whales was founded in 1977 when Maris Sidenstecker was fourteen years old, and focuses on educating the public, especially children, about marine mammals and the fragile ocean environment.
"A giant among marine mammals, a male sperm whale weighs between forty and sixty tons.
"Whales are mammals, just like us, and more than 50 million years ago, their ancestors walked on land as we do.
Each spring, gray whales migrate from their warm birthing lagoons in Mexico to the cold feeding grounds of the Bering and Arctic Seas.
Whales hold several world records. Whales are the largest aquatic mammals (bigger than sharks or dolphins.) Grey whales migrate further than any other mammal (about 10,000 miles a year.) And the blue whale is the earth's largest animal (even beating out t
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