Wednesday, November 15, 2023

A whale and....what was that bottom right? Shark?

 


5 comments:

  1. Baby whale, learning how from mama

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  2. Pectoral fin. Long Flipper. If you look on the left side, you can see the other one...

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  3. That double ring in the water is also the whale's work. They exhale air underwater while circling. The ring of myriads of tiny air bubbles works as a kind of barrier to keep their food (krill = miniature crawfish) within an enclosed space to feed on it.

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  4. My third comment is a sincere "thank you" to Mr. Swanson! Coming from a sixty-two old follower. Who was a bookworm from early childhood and - being fascinated by that species - read not only "Moby Dick" but every book available on whales. Now, fifty years later - YOU brought that drone video on my screen that shows everything I had read.
    You can perfectly see the bubbles coming up at six o clock, you see the beast breaching with a wide open maw - exactly in the middle of that circle.
    You see these tons of water expanding the whale's skin. And in the final second, the whale starts to eject that water through his baleen (a natural sieve instead of teeth that keeps the krill inside). Wow! Just wow!

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