Blue whale mother and calf NZ (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Blue whale mother and calf NZ

Caption

A blue whale mother and calf swimming together in the South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand, a rare summer feeding region with many mother-calf pairs.

Credit

Leigh Torres/Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory (GEMM) Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University

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License

CC BY-SA

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