article_snippet: The migrating gray whale, whose tail was likely amputated after whose tail became entangled in fishing gear, was seen adapting a new style of swimming to allow whose tail to negotiate whose tail way to warmer waters.
article_snippet: Although experts believe the style of swimming could cause This gray whale to develop back problems, This gray whale is probably the only way it could make the migration.
article_snippet: This gray whale just goes to show how smart these mammals are, to be able to adapt so well without a limb,' Captain Tom White of the Dana Pride, which runs from Dana Wharf Whale Watching said. '
article_snippet: This gray whale was migrating along fine, although a little slower than what we usually see.
article_snippet: Chopped off: The migrating gray whale (pictured), whose tail was likely amputated after whose tail became entangled in fishing gear, was seen adapting a new style of swimming to allow whose tail to negotiate whose tail way to warmer waters .
article_snippet: Above, This gray whale's amputated tail .
article_snippet: The whale, which will average 40 to 50 feet in length when fully grown, likely lost its fluke recently after becoming entangled in fishing gear, such as ropes from crab or lobster traps or gill nets.
article_snippet: This may have led to the whale's flukes dying and falling off without harming the rest of the whale body.
article_snippet: marine biologist Michael J. Moore, Ph.D., of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said it was likely that a gill net had slowly cut off the whale's flukes, 'giving the major blood vessels that feed the fluke time to clot and heal as the damage got deeper.'
highlights_snippet: Tail was likely chopped off after animal became entangled in fishing gear .
  
highlights_snippet: Whale, which was migrating to warm waters, used a new  swimming style .
  