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North Pacific humpback whale, cow/calf. Wildlife Portraits Photo.
Image ID: 00140
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | North Pacific humpback whale, breach. Wildlife Portraits Picture.
Image ID: 00205
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators. Stock Photography of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 02114
Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage. Photograph of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 15122
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females. Wildlife Portraits Photos.
Image ID: 19693
Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Full grown, mature male coastal brown bear boar (grizzly bear) in sedge grass meadows. Wildlife Portraits Image.
Image ID: 19134
Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos
Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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A Florida manatee, or West Indian Manatee, swims slowly through the clear waters of Crystal River. Professional stock photos of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 02696
Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus
Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | Portrait of a young brown bear, pausing while grazing in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Pictures of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 19135
Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos
Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Galapagos shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands, with schooling fish in the distance. Wildlife Portraits Photo.
Image ID: 16240
Species: Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagensis
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Wildlife Portraits Picture.
Image ID: 19465
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Brown booby flying over Rose Atoll at sunset, with dark colorful storm clouds and other birds in the background. Stock Photography of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 00914
Species: Brown booby, Sula leucogaster
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa. Photograph of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 00871
Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA |
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A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset. Wildlife Portraits Photos.
Image ID: 02286
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Caribbean reef shark, ampullae of Lorenzini visible on snout. Wildlife Portraits Image.
Image ID: 10550
Species: Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi
Location: Bahamas | Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage. Professional stock photos of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 22142
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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A huge blue whale swims through the open ocean in this aerial photograph. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. Pictures of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 02169
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Guadalupe fur seal pup sits on brown rocks along the coastline of Guadalupe Island. Wildlife Portraits Photo.
Image ID: 02441
Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Bull elephant seal exits the water to retake his position on the beach. He shows considerable scarring on his chest and proboscis from many winters fighting other males for territory and rights to a harem of females. Sandy beach rookery, winter, Central California. Wildlife Portraits Picture.
Image ID: 15458
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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Black bear walking in a grassy meadow. Black bears can live 25 years or more, and range in color from deepest black to chocolate and cinnamon brown. Adult males typically weigh up to 600 pounds. Adult females weight up to 400 pounds and reach sexual maturity at 3 or 4 years of age. Adults stand about 3' tall at the shoulder. Stock Photography of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 18744
Species: American black bear, Ursus americanus
Location: Orr, Minnesota, USA | Brown pelican head throw. During a bill throw, the pelican arches its neck back, lifting its large bill upward and stretching its throat pouch. Photograph of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 20257
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Western gull, early morning pink sky. Wildlife Portraits Photos.
Image ID: 18394
Species: Western gull, Larus occidentalis
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Northern fur seal swims through the cold waters and kelp forest of San Miguel Island, in California's northern Channel Islands. Wildlife Portraits Image.
Image ID: 00966
Species: Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus
Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | A neonate gray whale calf, born just hours before, still exhbiting embryonic folds in the skin along its side. This baby gray whale was born in the cold waters of Big Sur, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Professional stock photos of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 01135
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Monterey, California, USA | California sea lions, Coronado Islands. Pictures of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 02160
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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The bright orange garibaldi fish, California's state marine fish, is also clownlike in appearance. Wildlife Portraits Photo.
Image ID: 02416
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: California, USA | Ocean sunfish schooling, open ocean near San Diego. Wildlife Portraits Picture.
Image ID: 03562
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California, USA | North Pacific humpback whale, escort in competitive group makes fast close pass. Stock Photography of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 06057
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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California sea lion hauled out on rocks beside the ocean. Photograph of Wildlife Portraits.
Image ID: 19934
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A sea otter, resting on its back, holding its paw out of the water for warmth. While the sea otter has extremely dense fur on its body, the fur is less dense on its head, arms and paws so it will hold these out of the cold water to conserve body heat. Wildlife Portraits Photos.
Image ID: 21602
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA | Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males. Central California. Wildlife Portraits Image.
Image ID: 15387
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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