“After seeing how botos would sometimes bring their beaks above water, I knew I want a split shot at sunset. “Though I did not witness this elusive boto transformation at dusk, I was enchanted by these beautiful mammals in a different way,” said Zhou. UPY 2023Īccording to the legend among locals, river dolphins (botos) can transform at night into handsome men known as “boto encantado” to seduce women. I guess it goes to show if you're spending all day with the dolphins, you'll get lucky eventually with a shot like that.Boto Encantado, Overall Winner, Underwater Photographer of the Year 2023 and Up & Coming category. "But while we see all that, I have certainly never seen a fish jump straight into a dolphin's mouth before. "Particularly if there is a mum and a calf about, the calf will start eating fish from a relatively young age, supplemented by the mother's milk for about the first three years, w hich will result in the adult female catching a fish but not eating it and instead tiring it out and leaving it for the calf to play with. "We see a lot of active fishing from the dolphins and we have seen them with playing with fish after they catch them too," he said.
He added that the encounter has reminded him that getting a great shot can be worth the wait. While he has seen dolphins catch fish many times before, Joshua - who has worked as a guide for four years and shares wildlife photos on his Twitter account - admits he has never seen a catch made so easily. The dolphin won't get an easier catch anytime soon (Image: Joshua Pedley/SeaMôr Dolphin Watching Boat Trips) Every encounter is fantastic, but sometimes your photos might just be of a fin surfacing and other times they might be incredible." I got my camera out and tried to get some photos, you never know when something spectacular might happen. "It was a mum and a calf that we saw, the crew on the boat spotted it. There's a rocky reef that we go to that's a good habitat for fish and where there's fish, there's a good chance that there could be dolphins about. We went round the bay of New Quay and then down the coast to a seabird colony and back. He said: "It happened on one of our normal, hour-long trips. Read more: The huge population changes in Wales revealed in the first data from Census 2021
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Get the latest news from across Wales sent straight to your inbox for free by signing up to our newsletters. Those on the tour were left amazed by the incident, with Joshua admitting that he was "very fortunate" to capture the moment on camera.
In the sequence of images that followed, the fish can be seen leaping gracefully out of the sea before landing in the dolphin's open mouth. Joshua Pedley, who works as a guide for SeaMôr Dolphin Watching Boat Trips in New Quay, was leading a trip along Cardigan Bay on Friday, June 24 when he spotted the bottlenose dolphin and took out his camera. The incredible moment was caught on camera by a wildlife guide in Cardigan Bay, who said he had never seen it happen before. A salmon became the unluckiest fish in the Irish Sea after it leapt out of the water and straight into the mouth of a passing dolphin.
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