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However, the tangled whale appeared to be heading down to Mexico, which is "not normal at all," Anderson said. Gray whales eat crustaceans by sucking up sand from the ocean floor and filtering it through a sieve-like structure called baleen. There is little for the whale to eat in the Mexican lagoons and the whale will be in trouble unless it turns around, Anderson said. "He should be heading up toward the Arctic ... he needs to further up the coast," he said. It is not unusual for whales and other sea mammals to become tangled in fishing lines, Anderson said. The whale is the third to be spotted tangled in fishing gear in the area in the past month, although it could have picked up the line from someplace farther away, Anderson said. Many entangled whales, dolphins and other sea mammals never make near shore to be rescued, he said. "Most of these whales wind up dying out to sea somewhere and nobody even knows that they were caught in a net," he said.
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