Tuesday, January 17th
...it's been really quiet, a good time to organize photos...or something...I got side tracked...
...hum...just how many Southern Residents do I have a breaching picture of?
...I began to gather them, one whale at a time...going down the list...
...many breaching pics and also many times not enough info to verify who...
...then I got side tracked again...if I get enough of the 'where white meets black,'
along with positive identifiers, then I'll potentially be able to
identify breaching whales who give me 'no help' (i.e. no dorsal fin or saddle
patch)...
...so my hunt for who I had breaching turned
into who did I have that I could match up 'where white meets black'?...and pretty soon that had me on another quest.....a young female...notice the shape of the white in the genital area...
...a juvenile male...
..I noticed something unusual in this next picture......so I
zoomed in...
...something was different about the mammary slits...
...zooming in closer...
...her calf had evidently just nursed...mom's nipples are exposed outside of
the mammary slits...amazing......I'm not exactly
sure how they do it...but they know, and that's all that really matters...
...I did a search on-line and there was more than one answer...so I'll leave it for you to search...
...my apologies to K27 for invading her privacy but this was just too interesting not to share it... :)
...something was different about the mammary slits...
...I did a search on-line and there was more than one answer...so I'll leave it for you to search...
...my apologies to K27 for invading her privacy but this was just too interesting not to share it... :)
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