A large sardine supper!
A humpback whale dives for krill amidst thousands of short-tailed shearwaters. It is mid-summer in the Bering Sea, off Alaska’s Aleutian islands. Cold water and long sunny days leads to some of the richest seas in the world. Humpbacks have travelled for months from Hawaii and shearwaters the length of the planet from Australia. Filming from the boat, the BBC watched shearwaters accidentally fly straight into the side of breaching whales, and humpbacks accidentally swallow and spit out shearwaters. At 18 million, this is the largest gathering of seabirds on the planet.
A white humpback whale calf breaches in Cid Harbour in the Whitsunday Islands, part of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. An extremely rare species, this striking animal was spotted by local man Wayne Fewings, who was with his family in a boat when he spotted a whale pod.
A new species of dolphins in Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. The new species, Tursiops Australis, which can also be found at Gippsland Lake, have a small population of 150 and were originally thought to be one of the two existing bottlenose dolphin species.
(via The week in wildlife)
