1116-48406 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tail fluke, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America

1116-48405 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) inflated head lunge, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America

1116-40053 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America

1116-40052 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America

1116-40049 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tail slapping, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America

1116-40131 - A Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces near the sailboat in the Great Bear Rainforest and a man photographs the whale, Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada

1074-19 - Minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata) associating with North Sailing whale-watching boat. Blow lit up by low light Fjordland, in far north of Iceland.

906-10 - Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) preforming "head-out" behaviour, vertical in the water while socialising. This is followed by either disappearing below the surface or turning upside down. Endangered, Ionian Sea, Greece.

1074-12 - Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) surfacing at speed after lunging through bait ball of fish under seagulls. Husavik, Iceland

906-9 - Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) "logging" behaviour, this parallel position is achieved after socialising at the surface. Endangered, Kythira Sea, Greece.

906-7 - Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in "head-out" position. This vertical position is used in socialising and when approached by a vessel, may provide a better 3D vision of an object. Endangered, Ionian Sea, Greece.

906-8 - Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in "head-out" position viewed from the side. This vertical position is used in socialising and when approached by a vessel, may provide a better 3D vision of an object. Endangered, Ionian Sea, Greece.

1074-11 - Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) lifting its rosturm above the suface and associating with whale watching boat. Slender rostrum and small blow hole typical of minke

1036-158 - Southern right whale (Balaena glacialis australis). sequence 1/2 South Africa

1036-90 - Killer whale (Orcinus orca) spy hopping west of Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland

1036-108 - Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) spyhopping Baja, California.

931-89 - Breeching humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Grand Turk. Turks and Caicos Islands. (RR)

917-357 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus) breaching, extremely rare unusual image. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: This Blue Whale was engaging in courting/fighting behaviour with another Blue Whale. Both animals were moving much faster than normal, chasing each other, & breaching repeatedly.

917-358 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus) breaching, extremely rare unusual image. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: This Blue Whale was engaging in courting/fighting behaviour with another Blue Whale. Both animals were moving much faster than normal, chasing each other, & breaching repeatedly.

917-356 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus) breaching, extremely rare unusual image. Monterey, California, Pacific Ocean. MORE INFO: This Blue Whale was engaging in courting/fighting behaviour with another Blue Whale. Both animals were moving much faster than normal, chasing each other, & breaching repeatedly.

969-119 - Short-fin Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, swimming off the Azores Islands (RR)

969-197 - Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus, surfacing off the Azores Islands (RR)

969-191 - Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus, showing blowhole and back off the Azores Islands (A4 only).

969-120 - Short-fin Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, mother and calf swimming off the Azores Islands (RR)

969-155 - Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, mother and large calf fluking off the Azores Islands (RR)

969-188 - Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus, lunge feeding off Faial Island, Azores (RR)

969-168 - Male Blainville's Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon densirostris, swimming off the Azores, showing typical scarring along its back (RR)

969-190 - Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus, showing chevron marking. Seen off the Azores (RR)

969-196 - Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus, showing flukes off the Azores Islands (A4 only).

969-189 - Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus surfacing off the Azores islands (RR)

979-604 - Aerial view of adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) preparing to dive in order to cooperatively "bubble-net" feed in Southeast Alaska, USA

979-646 - Adult humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke-up dive in Frederick Sound, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-649 - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding (note the baleen hanging from the upper jaws) Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-398 - Adult California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) breaching in San Ignacio Lagoon, BCS, Mexico.

979-653 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-656 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching in Chatham Strait in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-830 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) fluke-up dive at sunset in the offshore waters of Santa Monica Bay, California, USA.

979-642 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke-up dive in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-247 - The actual moment of take for a group of five transient Orca (Orcinus orca) that chased, killed, and then ate a single female Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) in Icy Strait, Alaska, USA

979-248 - The actual moment of take for a group of five transient Orca (Orcinus orca) that chased, killed, and then ate a single female Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) in Icy Strait, Alaska, USA

979-534 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pec-slapping in the AuAu Channel, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-597 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching in Frederick Sound, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-598 - Adult humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching near the Five Fingers Island Group in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-591 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) cooperatively bubble-net feeding in Chatham Strait (upper jaw and baleen detail) in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-603 - Aerial view of adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) preparing to dive in order to cooperatively "bubble-net" feed in Southeast Alaska, USA

979-652 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-367 - Sub-adult Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) breaching in northern Gulf of California, Mexico

979-405 - Adult California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) fluke-up dive - note extreme scarring and damage to right fluke - in Bahia Magdalena on the Pacific side of the Baja Penninsula. Pacific Ocean.

979-655 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing in mist in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-605 - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding in front of Mendenhall Glacier in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-641 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching after co-operatively bubble-net feeding in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-651 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-592 - Adult humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke-up dive in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-2322 - Adult humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) head-standing near boat in the AuAu Channel, Maui, Hawaii. Pacific Ocean. Model and property released.

979-637 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding (note the herring jumping to get away inside the whales mouth) in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-647 - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding (note the baleen hanging from the upper jaws) Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-2303 - California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) surfacing near whale watchers in San Ignacio lagoon along the Pacific side of the Baja Peninsula. Pacific Ocean.

979-230 - Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing in Chatham Strait, southeast Alaska, USA.

979-596 - Adult humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching near the Five Fingers Island Group in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-639 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-406 - California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) adult spy-hopping in Magdalena Bay on the Pacific side of the Baja Penninsula. Pacific Ocean.

979-212 - Orca (Orcinus orca) - also called Killer Whale - surfacing near commercial fishing vessel in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada.

979-608 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding near small whale watching boat in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-648 - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding (note the baleen hanging from the upper jaws) Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-831 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) fluke-up dive at sunset in the offshore waters of Santa Monica Bay, California, USA.

979-595 - Adult humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching near the Five Fingers Island Group in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-229 - Bull Orca (Orcinus orca) surfacing in Chatham Strait, southeast Alaska, USA.

979-231 - Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing calm waters in Chatham Strait, southeast Alaska, USA.

979-643 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching off Point Adolphus in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-407 - California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) calf breaching next to its' mother in the calm waters of Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

979-654 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-607 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding near small whale watching boat in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-832 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) fluke-up dive in the offshore waters of Santa Monica Bay, California, USA.

979-232 - Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing calm waters in Chatham Strait, southeast Alaska, USA.

979-593 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching in Frederick Sound, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-638 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-645 - Adult Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching off Point Adolphus in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-594 - Adult humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching near the Five Fingers Island Group in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-829 - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) fluke-up dive in the offshore waters of Santa Monica Bay, California, USA.

979-644 - Humpback whale calf (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-650 - Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching in Hobart Bay, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-640 - Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively bubble-net feeding in Stephen's Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-602 - Aerial view of feeding humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing off Whitestone Harbor in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.

979-342 - Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, half breaching in the Midriff region of the Gulf of California, Mexico

979-2304 - California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) surfacing near whale watchers in Magdalena Bay along the Pacific side of the Baja Peninsula. Pacific Ocean.