Doug Perrine / Bryde's whale {Balaenoptera brydei / edeni} with throat pleats expanded after feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico, Eastern Pacific Ocean. Veolia Environnement...
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Claudio Contreras / Californian sea lion (Zalophus californianus) swimming in Southern sea palm (Eisenia arborea) and Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forest, San Benitos Islands, Baja California Pacific Islands Biosphe...
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding on Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax), Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching at sunset, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Claudio Contreras / California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), portrait. California condor recovery program, Sierra de San Pedro Martir National Park, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
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Claudio Contreras / California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), two peched in tree, adult and juvenile. California condor recovery program, Sierra de San Pedro Martir National Park, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
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Alex Mustard / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) pups in an underwater cave. Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sea of Cortez, Gulf of California, East Pacific Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) close to the camera with a golden trevally fish (Gnathanodon speciosus) and outline of another whale shark behind , in the plankton-rich green waters of La Paz bay, Baja...
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Alex Mustard / RF - Silhouette of a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) swimming through an underwater cave. Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sea of Cortez, Gulf of California, East Pacific...
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Franco Banfi / School of Munk's devil ray, pygmy devil ray, (Mobula munkiana), feeding on plankton at night, photographed on a long exposure, Espiritu Santo Island, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacif...
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Mark Carwardine / Aerial view Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) lunge-feeding in the southern Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico.
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Mark Carwardine / Aerial view of Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) lunge-feeding, with throat pouch distended, southern Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico.
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Mark Carwardine / Aerial view Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) lunge-feeding in the southern Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico.
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Mark Carwardine / Aerial view Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) lunge-feeding in the southern Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico.
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Ralph Pace / Swell Shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) egg case and embryo, Monterey, California
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Franco Banfi / Striped marlin (Kajikia audax) hunting Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in bait ball. Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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Franco Banfi / California sealion (Zalophus californianus) swimming. Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Pacific Ocean, Mexico
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Franco Banfi / Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) feeding on Sardine (Sardinops sagax). Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Pacific Ocean, Mexico.
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Chase Dekker / Orca (Orcinus orca) male tail slapping, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) gulp feeding on Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax), Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis) pod porpoising, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Common Loon (Gavia immer) spreading wings, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus), Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Monterey Bay, California
Mark Carwardine / Munk's pygmy devil ray / Munk's mobula (Mobula munkiana) large school from the air with one leaping out of the water, Baja California, Mexico
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Mark Carwardine / Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) aerial view, Baja California, Mexico
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Mark Carwardine / Munk's pygmy devil ray / Munk's mobula (Mobula munkiana) large school from the air, Baja California, Mexico.
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David Fleetham / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), two below surface. Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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David Fleetham / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) dorsal fin visible on surface. Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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David Fleetham / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaking surface with mouth open. Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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Claudio Contreras / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) breaching, San Ignacio Lagoon, El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California, Mexico, March
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Claudio Contreras / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) tail, San Ignacio Lagoon, El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California, Mexico, March
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Claudio Contreras / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) calf, San Ignacio Lagoon, El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California, Mexico, February
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Jeff Foott / Wild California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) near San Pedro Martir National Park, Northern Baja California, Mexico.
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David Fleetham / California yellowtail (Seriola lalandi dorsalis) Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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Sebastian Kennerknecht / Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) pup, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, California
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Sebastian Kennerknecht / Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) pup, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, California
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Alex Mustard / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) uses a Panamic cushion star (Pentaceraster cumingi) as a toy. The sealions pick up the starfish and then drop them and chase after them as they sink. Los I...
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Alex Mustard / Schools of Pacific creolefish (Cephalopholis colonus) and Panamic sergeant major (Abudefduf troschelii) swimming through sun beams inside an underwater cavern. Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja California Sur...
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Mark Carwardine / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) at water surface with mouth open showing baleen plates, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico
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Claudio Contreras / Aerial view of Espiritu Santo Island National Park, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, June, Honorary Mention in the third national contest 'Visions of our Nature' organised by Mexico...
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Claudio Contreras / Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) trapped in fishing net, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, May, Third Place in the third National Contest 'Visions of our nature' organised by Mexico'...
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Claudio Contreras / Californian Sealion (Zalophus californianus) in kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forest, San Benito del Este Island, Baja California Peninsula Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve, Baja California, Mexico, Ma...
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Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) female surfacing, Monterey Bay, California
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Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pair gulp feeding and gulls hunting Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax), Monterey Bay, California
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Alex Mustard / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) adult female swimming through sunbeams in an underwater cave. Los Isotes, La Paz, Mexico. Sea of Cortez, East Pacific Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from above. Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico. East Pacific Ocean
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Alex Mustard / Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) males beneath the surface. Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico. East Pacific Ocean
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother with three day old newborn pup, Monterey Bay, California
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother and three day old newborn pup, Monterey Bay, California
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother and three day old newborn pup, Monterey Bay, California
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother and six day old newborn pup, Monterey Bay, California
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Tony Wu / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) calf at ocean surface, with its mother visible, Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico.
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Sebastian Kennerknecht / Agricultural land surrounded by natural habitat, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay, California
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Sebastian Kennerknecht / Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) biologist, Paul Houghtaling, using telemetry to track mother and cubs near houses, Santa Cruz Puma Project, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, California
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Franco Banfi / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Pacific Ocean. Vulnerable.
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Franco Banfi / Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) attracted to 'squid jig' bait which glows at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / Scuba diver and Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean. August 2007.
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Franco Banfi / Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) cannibalising another squid of the same species at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / Mexican fisherman boat at dusk, fishing Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) , at night off Santa Rosalia, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / Beak and tentacles of Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) at night off Loreto, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Suzi Eszterhas / Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) mother and pup nuzzling, Monterey Bay, California
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother and three week old pup, Monterey Bay, California
Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) feeding on clam, Monterey Bay, California
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Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) feeding on clam, Monterey Bay, California
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Alex Mustard / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) portrait, Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Pacific Ocean.
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Franco Banfi / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Baja California peninsula, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean.
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Jack Dykinga / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke marked with barnacle attachments, CONANP protected area, Baja Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. February.
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Pascal Kobeh / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in open water, Guadalupe island, Mexico. Pacific Ocean.
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Jack Dykinga / Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Isla Animas, Sea of Cortez, Baja Sur, Mexico.
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Jack Dykinga / Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) swimming near Isla Animas, Sea of Cortez, Baja Sur, Mexico.
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Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / A signal blenny (Emblemaria hypacanthus) displays its showy dorsal fin as it extends out of its tube home. La Paz, Mexico. Sea Of Cortez, East Pacific Ocean.
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Claudio Contreras / Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) in courtship display, San Quintin, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico,
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Claudio Contreras / Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) in courtship display, San Quintin, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico,
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Claudio Contreras / Californian sea lion (Zalophus californianus), Espiritu Santo Island National Park, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, April
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Claudio Contreras / Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) fishing, Cabo Pulmo National Park, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, July
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Claudio Contreras / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with fish catch, Cabo Pulmo National Park, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, July
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Claudio Contreras / Tricoloured heron (Egretta tricolor), Guerrero Negro, Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, May
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Chris Mattison,Chris Mattison / Cedros gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer insulanus / Pituophis insulanus) Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
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Claudio Contreras / Black Rat (Rattus rattus) young. Introduced species on Maria Magdalena Island, Marias Islands Biosphere Reserve, Gulf of California, Mexico, September.
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Mark Carwardine / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aerial view of juvenile with two people swimming alongside, La Paz Bay, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico, March 2009
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Mark Carwardine / Hands of a tourist leaning from boat to touch the mouth of a friendly Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) lying on the surface, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico, April 2009
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Mark Carwardine / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) underwater, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico
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Mark Carwardine / Split-level of tourist in small boat leaning out to touch a Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico, April 2009
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Mark Carwardine / Tourists watching Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) spyhopping, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico, February 2010
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Mark Carwardine / Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) spyhopping, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico
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Mark Carwardine / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aerial view of juvenile with two people swimming alongside, La Paz Bay, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Baja California, Mexico, March 2009
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Mark Carwardine / Tourists in small boat leaning out to touch a curious Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico, March 2007