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026b Humpback whale jump and splash Photo by Giles Laurent
Taken on 1 August 2023, 11:24:45
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- Own work, from gileslaurent.com
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) jumping in the air and splashing the water at Ísafjarðardjúp (Iceland). The reasons why whales practice breaching are still unknown today. Some hypotheses among others are that breaching is done in order to either communicate, court, assert dominance, warn of danger, remove parasites from the skin or play. Image set number 2 out of 5.
