Chase Dekker has been photographing wildlife for nearly a decade but has never captured a shot like this
. He was on a routine whale-watching boat trip last week in Monterey Bay, California, when he noticed a sea lion stuck on the nose of humpback whale.He immediately started photographing."I didn't even look at my camera," Dekker said."I just leaped up and was screaming to everyone aboard."The results were incredible, as Dekker was able to capture the moment when the sea lion fell into the whale's mouth.
In fact, that whale's esophagus is only about the size of a grapefruit or small melon, making it impossible to swallow such a creature.To feed, these humpback whales open their mouths wide and take in large amounts of water. They filter out tiny ocean creatures such as plankton and krill, pushing the water back out. A humpback whale can hold up to 5,000 gallons of water in its mouth, according to the Maui Ocean Center.
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