La madre salta intorno, insegnando al suo bambino a saltare. Galles, Regno Unito: IMMAGINI MOZZAFIATO mostrano una madre che addestra il suo bambino saltando a cinque piedi dal
The mother jumps around, teaching its baby to leap. Wales, UK: STUNNING IMAGES show a mother dolphin training her baby by jumping five feet out of the water over the head of her calf. One image shows this 600-pound mother bottlenose dolphin leaping into the air as the head of her calf breaches the water just below her. These images were captured by professional photographer Simon James (53) from Carmarthenshire in Wales. Captured at Mwnt Beach in Ceredigion, West Wales, Simon snapped the dolphin?s water breach using a Nikon D500 camera. ?The mother seemed to be training the calf as they stayed around the bay for nearly three hours, ? said Simon. ?The mother started to breach out of the water and my luck was in. In one shot you can see the mother breach over the calf. The mother gave around three or four leaps over a brief period of twenty seconds or so, which was a great relief as I'd spent over three hours and five days pointing the camera at fins and seawater focussing, then refocussing again in the hope of getting a shot or two.? The bottlenose dolphin weighs around 700 pounds and can grow up to 13 feet in length when fully grown. They can jump as high as 20 feet into the air and have been known to live longer than 60 years. ?I decided to spend a week or so down Mwnt, Ceredigion, a favourite hunting spot for dolphins on high tides, hoping to see a few dolphins, ? said Simon. ?I spent five mornings, three to four hours a time waiting to see if any would come in the bay to feed. ?I saw nothing for three days but one solitary dolphin came in on day four but left after half an hour or so, in which I only saw its fin and head occasionally. ?On Friday I got to my favoured spot early and after about an hour of waiting a mother and calf bottlenose dolphin came in to look for food. ?It was an absolutely superb feeling to get these shots as I?ve been Dolphin watching from Mwnt for about 10 years now, ? said Simon. ?These are by far my best images yet of these stunning Bottlen
