Photo by Franco Banfi/Solent News & Photo Agency
When it’s time for a nap, sperm whales go vertical with their pod and snooze away.
“Sleeping dogs lie, but sleeping whales … ‘stand’ on their tails? That was the scene … glimpsed by a diver in the Caribbean, at least, when the photographer encountered a group of sperm whales napping together, all of them suspended tails-down in the water.
Photographer Franco Banfi was free diving — underwater diving without a breathing apparatus — … off the coast of Dominica, an island in the Caribbean Sea between Martinique and Guadalupe, when he spied six still and silent sperm whales drifting in their upright postures at a depth of around 65 feet (20 meters).”
~ Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer, Live Science
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