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Aerial View Of Whale And Calf Swimming

5s 4K UHD
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About this clip

High-angle aerial footage captures a large whale and its calf swimming together in the open ocean. The pair moves slowly through the water, creating gentle ripples and small splashes on the surface. The water appears calm with a greenish-grey hue, suggesting a coastal environment. This cinematic drone shot offers a serene perspective of marine wildlife behavior, ideal for nature documentaries, environmental awareness campaigns, or travel content, or wildlife conservation projects.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, conservation films, agency mood reels, and social edits that need an overhead view of a whale and calf moving through open water.
Edit role
Best as a short wildlife cutaway, transition, or quiet insert between broader ocean coverage and closer marine life behavior shots.

Tags

whalecalfoceanmarine lifewildlifedroneaerialswimmingwaterseanaturemammalmotherbabywildconservationdocumentarysurfaceripplescalm

Shot slate

Resolution
4K UHD
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

High-angle view of a whale and calf near the surface in green-grey ocean water, with faint ripples and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the whale pair small in the overhead ocean composition. (0:00)
The whale and calf remain close together beneath the rippled sea surface, with a pale calf shape visible beside the darker adult and no visible people.
This frame keeps the adult whale and calf together in a clean aerial wildlife view. (0:01)

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