Serious air in Alaska
August, 2007
These are all images of the same adult humpback whale breaching. Each "pose" seems a little different from the others and there seems to be no end to the variations on the theme. The breach above was more of a head-lunge leading into a belly-flop. Notice that the eye is closed!
This breach is going for the huge arching back-slap with a full twist in mid-air!
Simulating a rocket launching into the sky, or a submarine launching from the depths (of course humpbacks knew how to do this long before we humans built machines capable of these feats!)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you think the huge "O" of water off the pectoral fin was intentional? Hmmm....
These are all images of the same adult humpback whale breaching. Each "pose" seems a little different from the others and there seems to be no end to the variations on the theme. The breach above was more of a head-lunge leading into a belly-flop. Notice that the eye is closed!
This breach is going for the huge arching back-slap with a full twist in mid-air!
Simulating a rocket launching into the sky, or a submarine launching from the depths (of course humpbacks knew how to do this long before we humans built machines capable of these feats!)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you think the huge "O" of water off the pectoral fin was intentional? Hmmm....
posted by Wildlife Images at 1:54 PM
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