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Fish school (14 photos)
Sardines - commercial fish that prefer cold waters of the western and southern coast of South Africa. Every year, about the same time, from June to July, sardines gather in large shoals and migrate to the east coast of South Africa. Here there are warm and cold water currents: Mozambique and Benguella.
Sardines go your way, which is over 1,000 kilometers, forming the jamb length of 15 km, a width of 1, 5 km and a depth of 40 meters. The phenomenon has been called "the race of sardines" or the "greatest shoal of fish in the world." It is interesting that after the shoal of sardines and sent sea predators - sharks, dolphins, whales, seals and birds.
South African sardine - pelagic fish (living in the upper layers of the open ocean), preferring the cold waters of the western and southern coast of South Africa.
Cold isolated water in Cape Point, the southernmost point of the African continent, creating favorable conditions for many marine life for their peaceful existence. However, the breeding period and the period of breeding marine animals have to go searching for more shallow waters warmed affectionate African sun.
Following the sardines on a journey and go up to 20 thousand dolphins that follow the huge shoals of fish to the north, to the coast of Mozambique and Madagascar.
Dolphins are well-coordinated team. They "bite" into a giant school of fish, beating him jamb smaller kilometer long and drive it towards the coast. Driven off the coast fish is trapped. Dolphins arrange incredible feast.
Not averse to profit sardines and Bryde's whale (the whale). 25-ton mammals, reaching a length of 15 meters, is usually kept alone or in small groups of 2 to 7 individuals.
It is also not averse to eat sardines shorebirds.
Despite the fact that millions of sardines not come to the shore to the destination, the surviving fish enough for further reproduction. By the end of October-November, most of them are rotated in the reverse direction and begin their journey home, where they will be assisted during the SA Agulhas
Photos Nadezhda Kulagina, Google
Sardines go your way, which is over 1,000 kilometers, forming the jamb length of 15 km, a width of 1, 5 km and a depth of 40 meters. The phenomenon has been called "the race of sardines" or the "greatest shoal of fish in the world." It is interesting that after the shoal of sardines and sent sea predators - sharks, dolphins, whales, seals and birds.
South African sardine - pelagic fish (living in the upper layers of the open ocean), preferring the cold waters of the western and southern coast of South Africa.
Cold isolated water in Cape Point, the southernmost point of the African continent, creating favorable conditions for many marine life for their peaceful existence. However, the breeding period and the period of breeding marine animals have to go searching for more shallow waters warmed affectionate African sun.
Following the sardines on a journey and go up to 20 thousand dolphins that follow the huge shoals of fish to the north, to the coast of Mozambique and Madagascar.
Dolphins are well-coordinated team. They "bite" into a giant school of fish, beating him jamb smaller kilometer long and drive it towards the coast. Driven off the coast fish is trapped. Dolphins arrange incredible feast.
Not averse to profit sardines and Bryde's whale (the whale). 25-ton mammals, reaching a length of 15 meters, is usually kept alone or in small groups of 2 to 7 individuals.
It is also not averse to eat sardines shorebirds.
Despite the fact that millions of sardines not come to the shore to the destination, the surviving fish enough for further reproduction. By the end of October-November, most of them are rotated in the reverse direction and begin their journey home, where they will be assisted during the SA Agulhas
Photos Nadezhda Kulagina, Google
