# 026b Humpback whale jump and splash Photo by Giles Laurent

- By: Giles Laurent
- Date: Taken on 1 August 2023, 11:24:45
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Own work, from gileslaurent.com
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:026b_Humpback_whale_jump_and_splash_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/7/79/026b_Humpback_whale_jump_and_splash_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg/1920px-026b_Humpback_whale_jump_and_splash_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.