Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) trio gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Close up of iceberg in Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA, July 2006

Konrad Wothe / Iceberg in Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA, July 2006

Gerry Ellis / Orca (Orcinus orca) breaching, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) female surfacing and spouting beside conifer-covered coastline, Inside Passage, Alaska

Doug Perrine / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching at sunset, Kupreanof Island, Frederick Sound, Inside Passage, southeastern Alaska, USA, July.

Doug Perrine / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Saginaw Channel, Inside Passage, near Juneau, southeastern Alaska, USA, July.

Doug Perrine / Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubble net feeding on herring, with sea gulls hoping to snatch fish; baleen can be seen in the open mouths of several of the whales; Kupreanof Island, Frederic...

Doug Perrine / Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubble net feeding on herring, with sea gulls trying to snatch fish, Kupreanof Island, Frederick Sound, Inside Passage, southeastern Alaska, USA, July.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) male surfacing, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) male surfacing, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) pod gulp feeding, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) transient female surfacing, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) transient female surfacing, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

ZSSD / Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) male calf bottle feeding, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California

Matthias Breiter / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing, Inside Passage, British Columbia, Canada

Charlie Summers / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) close to surface with flukes and flippers visible. Inside Passage, Frederick Sound, Alaska, USA, August.

Charlie Summers / Mother and calf Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) both show a pectoral flipper as they swim on their sides in the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) doing a peduncle throw, the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) standing on its tail, spy hopping, the Inside Passage, Frederick Sound, Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) on its right side, the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) doing a peduncle throw, the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) doing a peduncle throw, the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Goosneck Barnacles on the top jaw of a breaching Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), Frederick Sound, the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Breaching Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), the Inside Passage of Alaska, July.

Charlie Summers / Breaching Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the waters of the Inside Passage, Alaska, July.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forest and tidal flat, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forest and tidal flat, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forests on islands, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forest along coast, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forest and tidal flat, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Tidal flat, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Spruce (Picea sp) forest and tidal flat, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Conifer covered islands, Inside Passage, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Waterfall, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA, July

Konrad Wothe / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) blow of one surfacing, tail fluke of one diving, Alaska's Inside Passage, USA, July

Hiroya Minakuchi / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) diving, Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska

Matthias Breiter / Peaks above Lynn Canal along the Inside Passage near Haines, Alaska

Matthias Breiter / Peaks above Lynn Canal along the Inside Passage near Haines, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Iceberg in Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Coastline, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Coastline, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Icefloe in Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Clouds and mist over forest, Admiralty Island National Monument, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group hauled out on rocks, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) endangered seabird, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Rainbow over forest, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) group bubble net feeding, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tails and spout, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) group bubble net feeding, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) group bubble net feeding, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group hauled out on rocks, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group hauled out on rocks, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group hauled out on rocks, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Coniferous forest, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) group bubble net feeding, Inside Passage, Alaska

Eric Baccega / Temperate rainforest on the Pacific coast, Inside Passage, British Columbia, Canada

Konrad Wothe / Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Dawes Glacier calving, Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) flippers, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group congregating on rock, West Brothers Island, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group congregating on rock, West Brother Island, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) group congregating on rock, West Brothers Island, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) tail against snowy mountains, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Conifer-covered coastline of warm springs, Baranof Island, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) female surfacing and spouting, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) mother and young surfacing, one blowing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) female surfacing beside conifer-covered coastline, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) mother and baby surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing beside conifer-covered coastline, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) pod surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) surfacing beneath mountain range, Inside Passage, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Orca (Orcinus orca) surfacing, Inside Passage, Alaska

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen with brood inside Cordia (Cordia nodosa) host tree with tem hairs protecting tree against large enemy ants, but permit passage of small (Azteca sp)

Paul Souders/ Worldfoto / Temperate rainforest, Taku Harbor State Marine Park, Inside Passage, Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) male surfacing near coast, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) female and male surfacing, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) breaching, Inside Passage, southeast Alaska