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Chinook Salmon

About Chinook Salmon
This is the largest of the salmons and because of this it is called the King Salmon. They spend most of their life at sea. When they reach sexual maturity they then return to their river of their birth. This can carry then as far as 1800 miles from the mouth of the river. Many of them die running the rapids and waterfalls. Those that do make it do not look like they did when they started, they are no longer sleek and silver, the fish are blackish with dark orange-red blotches. The tails become cherry red and the once finely-shaped jaws become grotesquely hooked and savage-looking. Once they lay their eggs they die. Their young or parr, remain in freshwater for one to two years. They then go to the sea where they grow fast on a rich diet of anchovies, shrimps and prawns

What is this animal's name?	Chinook Salmon
What class is this animal assigned to?	Salmonidae
What does this animal eat?	anchovies, shrimps and prawns
Where did this animal live?	Monterey, South California, north to Alaska