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Unprecedented numbers of gray whales are visiting San Francisco Bay, and nobody quite knows why
Sausalito, Calif. — When Bill Keener started working at the Marine Mammal Center as a field biologist in the 1970s, there were no whales or dolphins in San Francisco Bay. The waters east of the Golden Gate Bridge were chock- full of life — sea lions and …