Scavenging the Leftovers (IMAGE)

NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region

Scavenging the Leftovers

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Hungry albatrosses jockey for a share of the whale lung left from a killer whale attack off the California Coast. Biologists later recovered the lung for genetic study.

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Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries

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