Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Whales off Pender Island
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:30:35 +0530
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It is sea lions, and it is Argentina:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWsN63PRCW8&feature=related

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Frank Dernie wrote:
>
> >They are pretty dangerous animals. Aren't they the largest carnivores on
> Earth?
>
> I believe Sperm Whales are the only larger carnivores.
>
> >I don't remember the precise situation but one of the early photographers
> following >an Arctic expedition wrote a description of how an Orca lunged
> over the ice near >where he was standing at his tripod, trying to get at
> him, presumably for lunch...
>
> Franz Lanting has photographed them (IIRC on South Georgia Island) lunging
> onto a beach to catch penguins.  The wave action takes the Orca back into
> the water.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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