Humpback whale, Magaptera novaeangliae, tail flukes, water streaming off tail, last sight before diving, blue water, white water splashes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeanglae, tail flukes, black and white patches on underside, pattern used as a way to identify individuals, barnacles on outside edge, about to dive last between 3 to 9 minutes, Iceland
Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus, tail flukes, streams of water, blue water, flukes appear above water as the whale takes a deep dive which can last as long as twenty minutes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Description
Water pouring off tail flukes as the animal dives.
Canada, Vancouver Island, Ucluelet Vancouver Island, BC, pacific rim, blue, rugged, remote, out back, humpbacked whale tail dive diving Broken Island fin flippers whale watching Megaptera novaeAngliae rorqual species tail flukes
Dolphin's tail as it completes a jump; Taken around Florida Keys; Atlantic bottlenose dolphin; (Tursiops truncatus); small cetaceans; beak-like snout; falcate (sickle-shaped) dorsal fin; sharp teeth; blowhole; pods; stream-lined bodies; streamlined flippers; SOCIAL; DIVING; JUMPING; BOW RIDING; SPOUTING; very fast swimmers; coast; inshore waters; Gulf of Mexico; marine mammals; bottle nose; tail-fluke; fluke; aquatic mammal; Kingdom Animalia (animals); Phylum Chordata (vertebrates); Class Mammalia (mammals); Order Cetacea (whales and dolphins); Suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales); Family Delphinidae; Genus Tursiops; Species truncatus
