Temperate Gallery

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August, sequence 2/2. Photographer quote: A day of overcast cloud cleared in the last ten minutes of sunset spilling golden light through a small gap between the cloud base and hill top. A group of dolphins seized the moment and performed a perfect synchronized leap in the low warm sunlight. And I smiled, sighed with relief, and went home happy! Did you know? The bottle nose dolphins in the Moray Firth are said to be worth more than £4m to the Inverness economy through tourism revenue

Kamchatcka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) with face underwater whilst fishing

Kamchatcka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) with face underwater whilst fishing for Sockeye salmon in the Ozernaya River, Kuril Lake, South Kamtchatka Sanctuary, Russia, August. Taken for the Freshwater Project

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Schools of Pacific creolefish (Cephalopholis colonus) and Panamic sergeant major

Schools of Pacific creolefish (Cephalopholis colonus) and Panamic sergeant major (Abudefduf troschelii) swimming through sun beams inside an underwater cavern. Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sea of Cortez, Gulf of California, East Pacific Ocean

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