These amazing pictures show a gang of young, spotted dolphins leaping an incredible 15 feet in the air – high enough to clear a double decker bus.
The six foot long marine mammals are jumping an astounding two and a half times their own body length.
Two boisterous juveniles are shown throwing their weight about in order to teach the one smaller calf how to assert itself within the pod of dolphins they belong to.
The rarely seen images of three spotted dolphins leaping together were taken by a British photographer, Anthony Pierce, 30, from Leeds.
Anthony was visiting friends who own a catamaran and research marine mammals off the coast of Pico Island in the Azores – the group of Portugese islands in the Atlantic.
Anthony was visiting friends who own a catamaran and research marine mammals off the coast of Pico Island in the Azores – the group of Portugese islands in the Atlantic.