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A long-finned pilot whale gives birth to a calf on the edge of the continental shelf. Then with another female, the mother lifted her newborn to the surface for it's very first breath, a sight rarely witnessed and perhaps never photographed.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2017
Read the New Zealand Geographic feature forged form this project: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/where-the-wild-things-are/
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WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
A long-finned pilot whale gives birth to a calf on the edge of the continental shelf. Then with another female, the mother lifted her newborn to the surface for it's very first breath, a sight rarely witnessed and perhaps never photographed.<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2017<br /> Read the New Zealand Geographic feature forged form this project: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/where-the-wild-things-are/