Click on a thumbnail below to view the image from August 17-19, 2003.
Fluke
undersides
Teapot
Meerkat
Tiara
Tiara (a male) had been entangled for 4 years. The entanglement eventually became disengaged, not before permamently damaging the connective tissue at the base of the flukes.
Compass
Electron
Tear
Rattan
Stonehenge
Bubble cloud
and surface lunge feeding
bubble cloud
Clouds of buubles are used to corral prey
surface lunge
After blowing bubble clouds or circles, the whale would emerge in the midst of the bubble area.
surface lunge
surface lunge
mouth closing
lunge feedding
Note the distended throat, filled with water and food.
cooperative feeding
Other
photographs
Minke whale (male)
Courtesy of Richard Slattery
note the white scar (probably from entanglement) at the base of the tail stock
Fulcrum
note the propeller scars
lob-tailing
inverted lob-tailing
kick feeding
New calf
Highly scarred new calf (of Stonehendge)
Videos of July and August 2003 at the Great South Channel
