Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) cooperative feeding using a bubble net, Morris Reef, Chatham Straits, Southeast Alaska.
It seemed like there was an ever-increasing number of pleasure boats every year from the early days when sometimes I was blissfully alone with the whales all day. There was an increasing number of whale-watching boats as well as research boats; on one occasion i witnessed twenty different boats surrounding a pod of bubble netting whales. Most of the time the whales just continued their behaviour uninterrupted, but sometimes I witnessed them aborting their lunging and moving away to get away from a particularly noisy and intrusive boat, which included a research boat on one occasion.
- Filename
- Alaska-humpbackwhale-bubblenet28.jpg
- Copyright
- Duncan Murrell
- Image Size
- 5424x3531 / 15.8MB
- Contained in galleries
- Humpback Whales - Bubble Net Feeding

