{"id":3049,"date":"2019-06-26T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2019-06-26T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:08:15","slug":"clip-of-the-week-pygmy-blue-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/clip-of-the-week-pygmy-blue-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip of the Week &#8211; pygmy blue whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rare pygmy blue whale footage<\/h3>\n<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/stock-video\/slow-motion-aerial-shot-of-a-pygmy-blue-whale-(balaenoptera-musculus\/search\/detail-0_01612386.html\">clip of the week<\/a> is by Jurgen Freund, and shows rare footage of a pygmy blue whale breathing \/ blowing at the surface, then diving, in the Banda Sea off Indonesia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/343179117?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Jurgen describes the experience in his own words:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We had the great opportunity to dive the Banda Sea in the Moluccas last year, during the time when pygmy blue whales migrate up north from southwest Australia to feed. We were so lucky to see these unbelievable behemoths for a day or two and even photographed them underwater. Their blue beings appeared beside us, then with a gentle swoosh of their fins they were gone. Luckily we had flat calm seas so filming them in their magnificence from above was quite something to behold&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see other endangered species videos in our gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/-video\/video-subjects\/endangered-species.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-3049 style-standard'><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) subspecies of blue whale, Mirissa, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Endangered species.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508328-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) subspecies of blue whale, Mirissa, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Endangered species.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Snorkeler and pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) Mirissa, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Endangered species. Subspecies of Blue Whale.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01508321-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Snorkeler and pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) Mirissa, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Endangered species. Subspecies of Blue Whale.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01535979-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Fluke of a diving Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) with several remoras attached, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01535979-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01535979-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/01535979-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Fluke of a diving pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) with several remoras attached, Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare pygmy blue whale footage This week&#8217;s clip of the week is by Jurgen Freund, and shows rare footage of a pygmy blue whale breathing \/ blowing at the surface, then diving, in the Banda Sea off Indonesia. Jurgen describes the experience in his own words: &#8220;We had the great opportunity to dive the Banda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/clip-of-the-week-pygmy-blue-whale\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}