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| Title: Encounter | ||
| Year Released: 1997 | Edition: 20 | Price: $42,000.00 |
| Dimensions: 32"H 60"W 24"D | ||
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Very little in life compares with being at sea in a small vessel. In some small corner of your mind you are already aware of how truly insignificant you are against the immensity of the oceans, when a Blue Whale surfaces nearby. It is the length and tonnage of a fair size ship and slides through the waters with no apparant effort. These are the true giants of creation. ENCOUNTER shows a meeting between Bottlenose Dolphins and a Blue Whale mother and calf. It happens here in Monterey Bay, and in a few other places on earth where deep waters close to shore create nutrient rich upwellings which cause the tremendous blooks of krill upon which the Blue Whales feed, and the near shore water is warm enough for the bottlenose. Juxtaposing the Bottlenose Dolphins, which are fairly large as dolphins go at 8-12 feet, gives some human perspective to the sheer size of the Blues. |
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| Title: Family | ||
| Year Released: 1992 | Edition: 150 | Price: $8,500.00 |
| Dimensions: 28"H 13"W 12"D | ||
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FAMILY explores the same themes as LEARNING CURVE (released 1990). The idea fascinates me. Huge animals -- animals the size of boxcars -- in a flowing spiral, a concert of movement and cooperation. Adults teaching their offspring the skills learned from their parents for living in this world. I think we could all use more of this. |
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| Title: Homecoming | ||
| Year Released: 1993 | Edition: 350 | Price: $4,950.00 |
| Dimensions: 12"H 16 1/2"W 10"D | ||
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HOMECOMING is a Humpback mother and calf, escorted by a male, headed north from the tropical breeding grounds where the calf was born, to the nutrient rich northern waters where they will feed almost around the clock for the summer months before heading south again to complete the cycle. |
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| Title: The Learning Curve | ||
| Year Released: 1990 | Edition: 75 | Price: $36,500.00 |
| Dimensions: 36"H 35"W 24"D | ||
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In the cold fertile waters of the Gulf of Alaska, a small group of Humpback Whales teach a new calf the art of "bubble net feeding." After locating a mass of krill or small fish, the whales dive and swim upward in a spiral around the prey. As they ascend, bubbles are released that form a curtain or net of bubbles forcing the fish or krill into a tight ball in the middle. The whales then take turns swimming upward through the mass with their great mouths agape, taking in food and tons of water which the then eject through their baleen plates, trapping the food, hence the term "bubble net." Bubble net feeding is evidentally not instinctive and must be passed on from the adults to the offspring. This demonstrates the cooperative quality of the Humpback society, a society we place in jeopardy with ocean pollution, drift nets, noise and other of our thoughtless activities. Learning Curve is intended to help us appreciate the activities of the Humpbacks and to reflect on how much we still need to learn about our fellow creatures. |
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| Title: Northern Journey | ||
| Year Released: 1991 | Edition: 75 | Price: $40,500.00 |
| Dimensions: 40"H 35"W 28"D | ||
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A humpback mother and calf, escorted by a male, begin the long journey from the calving and breeding areas of Hawaii to the rich feeding grounds of Frederick Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. |
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| Title: Playtime | ||
| Year Released: 2009 | Edition: 350 | Price: $4,850.00 |
| Dimensions: 17" H 16" W 9" D | ||
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Bottlenose dolphins are found around the world in near shore temperate and tropical waters. They are probably the most often seen, and certainly the best known dolphin species, except possibly for orca. Playtime tries to capture some of the sheer joy these animals seem to take in life. Few wild animals have ever generated as much empathy or acted as such effective emissaries as these dolphins have with the human species. |
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| Title: Southern Cross | ||
| Year Released: 2005 | Edition: 75 | Price: $44,500.00 |
| Dimensions: 43 1/2"H 28"W 24" D | ||
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Somewhere in the warm seas of Earth, below 30 degrees north latitude, a humpback whale mother and calf, with a male breaching beside them, find the company of a group of bottlenose dolphins. The constellation Southern Cross graces the night sky wherever humpback whales are born. SOUTHERN CROSS attempts to capture a small bit of the sheer joy of life these huge animals seem to display, and the seemingly affectionate tolerance each species shows towards the other. We human beings could learn a great deal, 1 think, by watching more closely some of the other creatures which share our planet. |
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| Title: The Guardians | ||
| Year Released: 1998 | Edition: 150 | Price: $5,800.00 |
| Dimensions: 28 1/2"H 19"W 10"D | ||
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Spinner Dolphins are among the sleekest, most elegant animals in the sea. Adult males form small groups that patrol the school, protecting it from danger. They regularly perform one of the most altruistic acts in nature, purposefully placing themselves "in harms way" between the rest of their kind and some of the most ferocious predators on earth, the large pelagic sharks. THE GUARDIANS is dedicated to Dr. Ken Norris, Bernd & Melanie Wursig, and Randy Wells who together literally "wrote the book" on Spinners, and to all the men and women who spend their lives studying and protecting the whales, the dolphins, and this planet we all share. |
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