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Breaching Whale, Alaska, 1999

"Whale-watchers flock to such spectacles [as breaching] during the spring-to-fall feeding season off Alaska, while scientists debate whether groups of whales hunt cooperatively."

—From "Listening to Humpbacks," July 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Flip Nicklin