Pic of Killer Whale Calf Nursing Is Best Ever
@...@ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration has released what one of its experts calls the most detailed photograph yet taken in the wild of a killer whale nursing her calf//
The photograph above was taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveying the Southern Resident killer whale population recently near the San Juan ©Islands north of Seattle, where the community of whales spends part of the year//
@...@ It shows a young killer whale coming up from behind its mother and nursing//
While killer whale calves have been photographed nursing in captivity, NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologist John Durban called the image **stunning** ©and a first, for its detail, in the wild//