humpback – Page 2

Never stopped wandering, never stopped humming lullabies to the sea.

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Humpback whale by Joost van Uffelen

From as early as June and July humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) start to appear along the shores of South Africa and Mozambique after travelling thousands of kilometers from Antarctica. These massive on average 12 to 16 meter long mammals have only one goal and that is arriving on their mating and calving grounds as far up north as Kenya. This whale is a newborn humpback calf of about 6m in length.

deepblueseawhales:

Humpback Whale (by swormleaton)

brazenbvll:

Humpback Whale Tail | Mitsuharu Maeda

earthlynation:

(via 35PHOTO – Дмитрий Архипов – Про гадов морских.)

rjzimmerman:

“Eye Spy” by photography Mark Seabury, from the Smithsonian Photo Contest. Photographer’s note: “This photograph captures a whale behaviour called ‘spy hopping’ where whales poke their head above the water to take a look around and see what is happening above the surface. Whales have extremely good vision and so I have always found this behaviour intriguing and I wonder what they are thinking when they are ‘people watching’ in this way. To me this is such a special moment where I can’t help but feel that on some level we are bridging the gap between land and sea.”