| Summary: | Figure 5. A young humpback calf is lifted out of the water on its mother's back while an escort (above) moves in to assist in driving off a group of attacking killer whales adjacent to Ningaloo Reef in July 2013 (#20); the attack was unsuccessful and the calf was not harmed. Photo: L. Ballance. Published as part of Pitman, Robert L., Totterdell, John A., Fearnbach, Holly, Ballance, Lisa T., Durban, John W. & Kemps, Hans, 2015, Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia, pp. 629-657 in Marine Mammal Science 31 (2) on page 645, DOI:10.1111/mms.12182, http://zenodo.org/record/12761484
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