Dr. Kenney also orchestrated the live capture of a baby gray whale, which he lassoed using a "hoop net" at a lagoon in Baja California in 1971.

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Coolidge himself winds up unscathed, a sort of gray white whale that has eluded its baleful hunter.

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The Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino in Mexico is a haven for Pacific gray whales.

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