Linking now to this article about the Pacific Blue whale who swam up a river with her calf and eventually died on a sand bar. Scientists say she had plenty of fat so something else was going on...
" The mother whale entered the river on June 23 with her calf, during the species' migration from Baja California nursing grounds to Arctic home waters. They immediately became a tourist attraction. After the calf swam back into the ocean on July 23, facing an uncertain future, marine mammal experts and members of the Yorok Tribe, whose reservation lines the banks of the river, tried many tactics in an attempt to persuade the 40-ton female whale to leave.
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