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Humpback whale, abandoned calf alongside University of Hawaii research boat. This young calf lived only a few days after being abandoned or separated from its mother, and was eventually attacked by tiger sharks.
Image ID: 05979
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male north Pacific humpback whale bubble streaming underwater in the midst of a competitive group. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims closely behind a female, . The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby males interested in the female.
Image ID: 05999
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Hawaiian humpback whale underwater, sun beams dappling the whale in clear oceanic waters.
Image ID: 06007
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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Adult male north Pacific humpback whale bubble streaming underwater in the midst of a competitive group. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims closely behind a female, . The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby males interested in the female.
Image ID: 06037
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | A blue whale swims near a sailboat. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25959
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Blue whale swims at the surface of the ocean in this aerial photograph. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25960
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA |
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Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25961
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | A fin whale blows at the surface between dives. Coronado Islands, Mexico (northern Baja California, near San Diego).
Image ID: 12772
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Blue whale, raising fluke prior to diving for food, fluking up, lifting tail as it swims in the open ocean foraging.
Image ID: 16177
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Blue whales, two blue whales swimming alongside one another.
Image ID: 21259
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Image ID: 21260
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Image ID: 21257
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25955
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25957
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25962
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA |
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A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance.
Image ID: 27137
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Del Mar, California, USA | A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance.
Image ID: 27141
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Del Mar, California, USA | North Pacific humpback whale.
Image ID: 00167
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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Blue whale fluke, powerful tail that propels the huge whale through the open ocean.
Image ID: 01911
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | North Pacific humpback whale raising its fluke before diving underwater to forage for herring in southeast Alaska.
Image ID: 02154
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Blue whale, mother and calf.
Image ID: 02301
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03855
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03875
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03926
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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A blue whale eating krill. This blue whale is seen feeding and surfacing amid krill with its throat fully engorged with krill and water. It will push the water back out with its tongue, trapping the krill in its baleen which acts like a filter. Aerial photo, Baja California.
Image ID: 05837
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07554
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue whale.
Image ID: 01901
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit earth, swims through the open ocean, aerial view.
Image ID: 02165
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, blowing.
Image ID: 02182
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale.
Image ID: 02190
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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