MEXICO

MEXICO / MÉXICO.

Fauna of Mexico.
Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) and map of Mexico.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 03.07.1982.
Face value: 4 Mexican pesos.
Design: Joana Bielschowsky de Aguirre (b. Rio de Janeiro 1950).
Artwork in gouache technique.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 48 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1829.
- Scott No. 1282.
- StampWorld No. 1860.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1639.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 979.

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the gray whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale, is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of 14.9 m (49 ft), a weight of up to 41 tonnes (90,000 lb) and lives between 55 and 75 years. It is distributed in an eastern American North Pacific and an endangered western Asian North Pacific population. There is an abundance of them on the coast of Baja California Peninsula (Mexico), which appears marked in red on the stamp map.