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Blue ribbon eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita, leafnose moray eel, Fiji.
Image ID: 34732
Species: Blue Ribbon Eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii, being cleaned by a small wrasse, Fiji.
Image ID: 34735
Species: Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | 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.
Image ID: 15458
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
Image ID: 00968
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Humpnose Bigeye Bream, Monotaxis grandoculis, Fiji.
Image ID: 31348
Location: Makogai Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males.
Image ID: 35149
Species: Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California.
Image ID: 33616
Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia
Location: Baja California, Mexico | Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
Image ID: 04564
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Sea otters mating. The male holds the female's head or nose with his jaws during copulation. Visible scars are often present on females from this behavior. Sea otters have a polygynous mating system. Many males actively defend territories and will mate with females that inhabit their territory or seek out females in estrus if no territory is established. Males and females typically bond for the duration of estrus, or about 3 days.
Image ID: 21606
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA |
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Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males.
Image ID: 35147
Species: Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Bottlenose dolphins swim through red tide, hunt a school of fish, lit by glowing bioluminescence caused by microscopic Lingulodinium polyedrum dinoflagellate organisms which glow blue when agitated at night.
Image ID: 27066
Species: Lingulodinium polyedrum
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Longnose Hawkfish on Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus.
Image ID: 33570
Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia
Location: Isla San Diego, Baja California, Mexico |
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Blue ribbon eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita, leafnose moray eel, Fiji.
Image ID: 34785
Species: Blue Ribbon Eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males.
Image ID: 35152
Species: Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Steller sea lions underwater, showing whiskers and nose, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Image ID: 36108
Species: Steller sea lIon, Eumetopias jubatus
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia |
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Steller sea lions underwater, showing whiskers and nose, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Image ID: 36109
Species: Steller sea lIon, Eumetopias jubatus
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia | Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California.
Image ID: 33615
Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia
Location: Baja California, Mexico | Longnose hawkfish on black coral, underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California.
Image ID: 33617
Species: Longnose Hawkfish, Black Coral, Oxycirrhites typus, Antipatharia
Location: Baja California, Mexico |
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Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males. Central California.
Image ID: 15387
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | This bull elephant seal, an old adult male, shows extreme 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.
Image ID: 15388
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Barberfish.
Image ID: 05059
Species: Barberfish, Johnrandallia nigrirostris
Location: Socorro Island (Islas Revillagigedos), Baja California, Mexico |
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Pacific bottlenose dolphin, California sea lions.
Image ID: 01156
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Zalophus californianus
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A bull elephant seal (adult male) surveys the beach. The huge proboscis is characteristic of the species. Scarring from combat with other males. Central California.
Image ID: 15460
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Bottlenose dolphin, breaching the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 26805
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Bottlenose dolphin, bubbles forming in its exhalation just below the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 26806
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Bottlenose dolphins swim through red tide, hunt a school of fish, lit by glowing bioluminescence caused by microscopic Lingulodinium polyedrum dinoflagellate organisms which glow blue when agitated at night.
Image ID: 27065
Species: Lingulodinium polyedrum
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii, being cleaned by a small wrasse, Fiji.
Image ID: 34998
Species: Bignose Unicornfish, Naso vlamingii
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males.
Image ID: 35143
Species: Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Steller sea lions underwater, showing whiskers and nose, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Image ID: 36085
Species: Steller sea lIon, Eumetopias jubatus
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia | Humpnose Bigeye Bream, Monotaxis grandoculis, Fiji.
Image ID: 31799
Location: Makogai Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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