5
No gray whales are killed. Indigenous communities in Alaska kill 50 bowhead whales a year.
400
15
How many killer whales were alive ten years ago?
250
How many young do gray whales have during their life time
Four or Five
1,000,000,000.
1 a year
2
There are not many killer whales left there are in danger so there are not that many left
Not many. Hunting by humans is the biggest threat to gray whales. Gray Whales have been hunted since the 16th century. Humans have been whaling gray whale species for over 4 decades now. This hunting has significantly reduced the gray whale populations. The north atlantic population of gray whales were totally wiped out due to whaling even before the 19th century. Around 1950, governments worldwide declared the gray whale as an endangered species and banned whaling them