{"id":65491,"date":"2023-12-12T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/actualites\/2023\/12\/12\/alongside-the-whales-in-baja-california\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:08:36","slug":"alongside-the-whales-in-baja-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/news\/2023\/12\/12\/alongside-the-whales-in-baja-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Alongside the Whales in Baja California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.fr\/animaux\/mexique-les-baleines-observables-en-basse-californie-un-aquarium-grandeur-nature-203532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A great dancer of the deep, the whale impresses with its elegance and grace.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite its massive build, this ocean ballerina displays a kind of finesse and lightness. Like a siren, the humpback whale&#8217;s song casts a spell over observers, stirring powerful emotions. A deity of the sea, its power has long stirred fear in humans \u2014 fears tied to good and evil, death and rebirth, God and the Devil. A duality that surrounds this great sea creature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWhales have always exerted a kind of magnetism over humans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Impressive creatures, they are able to \u201cfeel\u201d the movement of their bodies through the water and detect currents as well as temperature variations. Some species still have vibrissae, such as the bowhead whale, right whales, and gray whales.<\/p>\n    <div id=\"bwg_container1_0\"         class=\"bwg_container bwg_thumbnail bwg_thumbnails_mosaic \"         data-right-click-protection=\"1\"         data-bwg=\"0\"         data-scroll=\"0\"         data-gallery-type=\"thumbnails_mosaic\"         data-gallery-view-type=\"thumbnails_mosaic\"         data-current-url=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65491\"         data-lightbox-url=\"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/wp\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=GalleryBox&#038;current_view=0&#038;gallery_id=47&#038;tag=0&#038;theme_id=1&#038;shortcode_id=208&#038;sort_by=casual&#038;order_by=asc&#038;current_url=%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F65491\"         data-gallery-id=\"47\"         data-popup-width=\"800\"         data-popup-height=\"500\"         data-is-album=\"gallery\"         data-buttons-position=\"bottom\">      <div id=\"bwg_container2_0\">             <div 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