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Afrikaans:
Hierdie foto is op 3 Januarie 2018 langs die Grahamkus, Antarktika, van aan boord van die National Geographic Explorer geneem. Dit vang 'n oomblik vas tydens 'n twee uur lange aanslag van vier orka's wat saam jag maak op die krapvreterrob. Die rob, informeel "Kevin" genoem, het die beproewing oorleef ten spyte van meer as drie dosyn pogings deur die orka's om hom van verskeie ysskotse af te spoel. Die orka's het herhaaldelik vier naas in lyn gebring en op gesinchroniseerde wyse direk teen die skotse aangestorm. Deur in noue formasie net onder die wateroppervlak te swem, het die orka's enorme wellings oor die ysskotse laat spoel en Kevin keer op keer verdryf het. Kevin het uiteindelik ontsnap deur met 'n hoek loodreg teen die walvisse se aanvalsrigting weg te swem toe hulle vir 'n laaste keer onder hom deurduik.
English:
This photograph was taken off the Graham Coast, Antarctica from aboard the National Geographic Explorer on January 3, 2018. It captures one moment during a two-hour encounter between four cooperatively hunting orcas and a crabeater seal. The seal, known informally as "Kevin", survived the ordeal despite over three dozen attempts by the orcas to wash him off of various ice floes. The orcas repeatedly aligned four abreast and charged directly at the ice floes in a synchronized fashion. By swimming in close formation just below the surface of the water, the orcas generated enormous bow waves that would wash over the ice floes, dislodging Kevin time and again. Kevin finally escaped by swimming at a 90 degree angle to the course of the whales as they dove under his ice floe a final time.
Deutsch:
Dieses Foto wurde am 3. Januar 2018 an Bord der
National Geographic Explorer
vor der Graham Coast in der Antarktis aufgenommen. Es fängt einen Moment während einer zweistündigen Begegnung zwischen vier kooperierenden Orcas und einem Krabbenfresser (Lobodon carcinophaga) ein. Der Seehund, informell «Kevin» genannt, überlebte die Tortur trotz mehr als drei Dutzend Versuche der Orcas, ihn von verschiedenen Eisschollen zu schwemmen. Die vier Orcas stellten sich immer wieder aufeinander ein und stürmten synchron direkt auf die Eisschollen. Durch das Schwimmen in enger Formation direkt unter der Wasseroberfläche erzeugten die Orcas enorme Bogenwellen, die über die Eisschollen spülten und Kevin immer wieder verdrängten. Kevin entkam schließlich, indem er in einem 90-Grad-Winkel zum Kurs der Wale schwamm, als sie ein letztes Mal unter seine Eisscholle tauchten.
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| Author | Callan Carpenter |
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