Brian Anderson, Antarctic deep breath (ANIMALS 2025)

All summer long, down the Antarctica peninsula, the humpback whales swim, surfacing to take a deep breath through their blow hole shortly after "blowing". The interplay of patterns in the water, in the water flowing off their backs, and in the shape of the blow hole is endlessly intriguing

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