Whale Gallery

Killer whale / Orca - The adult male known as MEL, 45 to 50 years old when these images were taken (March 2006)

FG-eb-327 Killer whale / Orca - The adult male known as "MEL", 45 to 50 years old when these images were taken (March 2006) hunting South American Sealion pups on a beach at Punta Norte, Valdes Peninsula, Province Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina Orcinus orca Intentional stranding is a unique hunting strategy of the small population of Orcas in northern Patagonia. The sunset colors are reflected on Mel's wet skin Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

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Volunteers attend to stranded pilot whales still alive, as one lies on a sandbank marked

Volunteers attend to some of the hundreds of stranded pilot whales still alive, as one lies on a sandbank marked with an X to indicate it has died, after one of the country's largest recorded mass whale strandings, in Golden Bay, at the top of New Zealand's South Island, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Anthony Phelps TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Tail of a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) as it dives

Tail of a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) as it dives, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. July 2019. IUCN Status: Endangered

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