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NOAA Photo Library Image - anim0815

Splash as humpback - Megaptera novaeangliae - hits the water after breaching. This picture won the whale cannonball contest.

Image ID: anim0815, NOAA's Ark - Animals Collection
Photo Date: 1992 October
Photographer: Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps (ret.)


Category: Marine Mammals/Great Whale/Humpback/

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