I saw extremely rare Arnoux's beaked whales in Antarctica
Posted by fajord@reddit | whales | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Posted by fajord@reddit | whales | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Fit_Pipe2117@reddit
That looks so cool! I'm so jealous!
Nelious@reddit
what’s with all the scratches on them?
fajord@reddit (OP)
squid
berniedankera@reddit
That’s so sick! Once in a lifetime experience
jbqd@reddit
I didn’t know they existed
fajord@reddit (OP)
most people don’t
jbqd@reddit
I went on a rabbit hole learning different types of whales which I didn’t even know existed
Better_Chard4806@reddit
What makes them so rare? Where the love or the population? TIA
fajord@reddit (OP)
they’re very infrequently sighted to begin with. they live in remote parts of the world and go on very deep, long dives. beaked whales in general are very poorly studied
Significant-Degree59@reddit
It's literally so uncanny to think about that there are elephant size animals out there we know nothing about....
nobbiez@reddit
Wow, these are amazing photos. Were they close to you or do you have a very expensive camera?? I wonder if anyone is doing photo ID work on these whales
fajord@reddit (OP)
i have a 400mm lens on a 45.7MP sensor, i can do some really good cropping. i was about 100m from them. and i uploaded the images i took to happywhale and observation.org
pre_industrial@reddit
Surreal
Educational-Idea4023@reddit
Awesome 🐳
Sad_Collection5883@reddit
So cool, do you have more shots?
fajord@reddit (OP)
yeah i got a few good ones from the surfacing interval. i only got one good interval from them though
bIuewhaIe@reddit
Beautiful!
My_2Cents_666@reddit
Amazing!!
TesseractToo@reddit
Wow! Great shot too!