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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Queuing Up For Dinner: Dolphins Enjoy Sardine Feeding Frenzy
From The Daily Mail:
Like workers in a canteen the dolphins line up patiently as they look forward to a rather large and tasty lunch.
The aquatic mammals head to the South African coastline each year for the Sardine Run - an underwater migration where millions of fish head eastwards from their cool spawning waters near Cape Town in search of zooplankton.
The dolphins, alongside sword fish and sharks ambush them from below, while gannets and gulls hover above the waves waiting for their chance to pick up a morsel from above.
It is one of nature's greatest phenomena which takes place in June each year. Underwater photographer Alexander Safonov is looking forward to experiencing the awesome sight again after he captured it on camera in 2008.
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