Oregon State University marine ecologist Leigh Torres has studied the gray whales along the Oregon coast for more than six years. That raises a natural question: does she have a favorite? “I like that one whale, Solé,” she told The Epoch Times. “She has a really distinct place she likes to be and foraging style.” Solé, a female first identified in 1999, has been spotted 70 times since 2015, all within a very limited section of ocean. “She must like the prey on the menu here and be very good at catching it”—that’s according to IndividuWhale, a website that Torres and her scientific collaborators created to showcase the gray whales they track. The website profiles Solé alongside a handful of other whales in the Pacific Coast Feeding Group (PCFG), a subpopulation of roughly 250 gray whales that spend their summers in the waters of the Pacific Northwest rather than the …