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Great white shark, research identification photograph. A great white shark is countershaded, with a dark gray dorsal color and light gray to white underside, making it more difficult for the shark's prey to see it as approaches from above or below in the water column. The particular undulations of the countershading line along its side, where gray meets white, is unique to each shark and helps researchers to identify individual sharks in capture-recapture studies. Guadalupe Island is host to a relatively large population of great white sharks who, through a history of video and photographs showing their countershading lines, are the subject of an ongoing study of shark behaviour, migration and population size, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)
Great white shark, research identification photograph. A great white shark is countershaded, with a dark gray dorsal color and light gray to white underside, making it more difficult for the shark's prey to see it as approaches from above or below in the water column. The particular undulations of the countershading line along its side, where gray meets white, is unique to each shark and helps researchers to identify individual sharks in capture-recapture studies. Guadalupe Island is host to a relatively large population of great white sharks who, through a history of video and photographs showing their countershading lines, are the subject of an ongoing study of shark behaviour, migration and population size, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)
Brown noddy at Rose Atoll NWRF, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Brown noddy at Rose Atoll NWRF, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Brown boobies in flight at Rose Atoll. which hosts large numbers of seabirds on the small island, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Brown boobies in flight at Rose Atoll. which hosts large numbers of seabirds on the small island, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Brown boobies in flight at Rose Atoll. which hosts large numbers of seabirds on the small island, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Brown boobies in flight at Rose Atoll. which hosts large numbers of seabirds on the small island, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary
Scripps Pier with Holiday Christmas Lights Aerial Photo, seen here just before sunrise, La Jolla, California
Scripps Pier with Holiday Christmas Lights Aerial Photo, seen here just before sunrise, La Jolla, California
Scripps Pier with Holiday Christmas Lights Aerial Photo, seen here just before sunrise, La Jolla, California
Humpback whale mother, calf (top), male escort (rear), underwater. A young humpback calf typically swims alongside or above its mother, and male escorts will usually travel behind the mother, Megaptera novaeangliae, Maui
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research pier is 1090 feet long and was built of reinforced concrete in 1988, replacing the original wooden pier built in 1915. The Scripps Pier is home to a variety of sensing equipment above and below water that collects various oceanographic data. The Scripps research diving facility is located at the foot of the pier. Fresh seawater is pumped from the pier to the many tanks and facilities of SIO, including the Birch Aquarium. The Scripps Pier is named in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps, the most significant donor and benefactor of the Institution, La Jolla, California
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research pier is 1090 feet long and was built of reinforced concrete in 1988, replacing the original wooden pier built in 1915. The Scripps Pier is home to a variety of sensing equipment above and below water that collects various oceanographic data. The Scripps research diving facility is located at the foot of the pier. Fresh seawater is pumped from the pier to the many tanks and facilities of SIO, including the Birch Aquarium. The Scripps Pier is named in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps, the most significant donor and benefactor of the Institution, La Jolla, California
Galapagos penguins, Spheniscus mendiculus, Bartolome Island
Nazca booby, Sula granti, Wolf Island
Nazca booby, Sula granti, Wolf Island
Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, North Seymour Island
Flightless cormorant, head and neck profile. In the absence of predators and thus not needing to fly, the flightless cormorants wings have degenerated to the point that it has lost the ability to fly, however it can swim superbly and is a capable underwater hunter. Punta Albemarle, Nannopterum harrisi, Phalacrocorax harrisi, Isabella Island
Flightless cormorant perched on volcanic coastline. In the absence of predators and thus not needing to fly, the flightless cormorants wings have degenerated to the point that it has lost the ability to fly, however it can swim superbly and is a capable underwater hunter. Punta Albemarle, Nannopterum harrisi, Phalacrocorax harrisi, Isabella Island
Swallow-tailed gull, mating, male on top, female just visible below, Creagrus furcata, Wolf Island
Swallow-tailed gull, Creagrus furcata, Wolf Island
Sally lightfoot crab on barnacles, Grapsus grapsus, North Seymour Island
Darwin Island, with Darwins Arch on the right. Darwin Island is the northernmost of the Galapagos Islands and is home to enormous numbers of seabirds
Darwin Island, the northernmost of the Galapagos Islands, hosts sheer seacliffs rising above the ocean that are home to tens of thousands of seabirds
Wolf Island, with a liveaboard tour boat below sheer seacliffs, is the largest of the islands in the distant northern island group of the Galapagos archipelago, is home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds. Vast schools of sharks and fish inhabit the waters surrounding Wolf Island
Wolf Island is the largest of the islands in the distant northern island group of the Galapagos archipelago, is home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds. Vast schools of sharks and fish inhabit the waters surrounding Wolf Island
Blue-footed booby adult and chick, Sula nebouxii, North Seymour Island
Great frigatebird, adult male, in flight, carrying twig for nest building, green iridescence of scapular feathers identifying species. Wolf Island, Fregata minor
Magnificent frigatebird, adult female on nest, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour Island
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