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Another photograph of SN096 and her youngest calf, with her older calf about to come up to the surface, too – taken yesterday, 25.03.2019.

And here is the latest addition to the population, the calf of SN096 on our trip today (24.03.2019)!

Port and Starboard, spotted off Simonstown, South Africa.

Mother and her calf surfing the waves

One of New Zealand's endangered creatures. The Hector's Dolphin is one of 9 species that can be found in New Zealand's coastal water. The population of Hector's dolphins have been substantially decreasing due to many reasons one in particular by getting stuck in Gillnets and trawl fisheries.

Nikon D850

28-300mm

We had an amazing encounter the other day with these Orcas who approached and swam right under and around our zodiac while we were cruising along the ice edge in the Gerlache Straight region of Antarctica. Swipe to see even veteran naturalist and Antarctic diver James Hyde (@JamesFCHyde) got about this encounter! Shot on expedition with @NatGeoExpeditions. I'll keep posting my Antarctic images here @timlaman so stay tuned. Orca, #KillerWhale, #Antarctica.

Today was spectacular <3

We have encountered a huge group of orcas around a fishing vessel in the morning hours.

There were several very young calves in the area. One of them was a newborn. I have witnessed that all over its body it was covered with teethmarks.

We have seen the same things on calves before in the previous seasons.

In the past we came to a conclusion that most likely the mother of the calf had a hard time during the birth and it might happened that other members of the pod tried to help her pull the calf out from its mother.

That could be an explanation for why such a young calf is covered with teethmarks.

The survival rate for this calves are very low in Norway (approx 50%) in Norway, so we hope this little one will make it and it will live a long and happy life <3

2018/11/27 / Norway