Rowan Dear, Mum And Bub (ANIMAL 2024)

The intimate and often playful moments of a humpback whale mother and her calf. We watched for several hours over the course of a week the interactions between them and other whales, the images show the baby underneath mums belly after is had finished feeding on her milk, them both rising to the surface together for some air and baby playing on mums rostrum, as she swam over to us to show off her baby

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