Un madre de #ballena jorobada (#Megaptera novaeangliae) junto a su cría blanca.

La foto la tomó Jono Allen cerca de Tonga (Pacífico Sur) y con ella ganó el gran premio del World Nature Photographer of the Year.

En esta especia, nacer sin #pigmentación ocurre aproximadamente ¡una de cada 40.000 veces!

https://jonoallen.com/

Whales and Dolphins (Marine Animals by Panini), Part 1

So after spending so long on a single company, reviewing in-depth every figure by Replica Toy Fish…why not work on a (nearly) entire series from a different company!? This time, I’m going to work through the marine figures produced by Italian company Panini. I will be approaching it differently–the figures are very small, and very stylized, so a relatively brief overview will be more […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/whales-and-dolphins-marine-animals-by-panini-part-1/

#balaenoptera #balaenopteraMusculus #belugaWhale #blueWhale #commonBottlenoseDolphin #delphinapterus #delphinapterusLeucas #humpbackWhale #killerWhale #megaptera #megapteraNovaeangliae #monodon #monodonMonoceros #narwhal #orcinus #orcinusOrca #tursiops #tursiopsTruncatus

Although the blue whale is the largest of all baleen whales it seems that the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is the most popular, but maybe that’s just my personal assumption after seeing it plastered all over Christian Lassen school supplies in the 90’s. The toy market seems to back up my claim though, with Toy Animal Wiki cataloging several more humpback figures than blue whale. […]

A pesar de ser objeto de estudio durante décadas, las #ballenas #jorobadas #Megaptera #novaeangliae siguen desvelando secretos que desafían nuestro entendimiento actual sobre su #biología y #ecología.

Un estudio publicado en la revista #Marine #Mammal #Science saca a la luz la primera observación confirmada de una penetración durante el acto sexual entre ballenas jorobadas, un fenómeno nunca antes reportado en la #literatura #científica sobre estas ballenas.

Lyle Krannichfeld y Brandi Romano