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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.
24 January 2017
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2017
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Globicephala melas (Long-finned pilot whale)
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 /> 24 January 2017<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2017