Category: Nature
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Smart Eel switches aquarium for snacks, returns for alibi
The eel swam in his own, otherwise empty tank at the FairPrice Ultra supermarket in the Changi Business Park in Singapore. He noticed that the neighboring tank had tasty prawns, so he slipped over the barrier and had a snack. YouTube user itedaniel recorded the eel then returning to his own tank. See Neatorama Watch this…
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Swimming With Sperm Whales – Super Giant Animals – BBC
Steve Backshall has an amazing experience as he swims with two whales who interact with him. Watch this video on YouTube
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Massively Majestic: What It Feels Like to Swim With Whales
Anuar Patjane is a photographer who last year won National Geographic’s photo contest for a picture of a humpback whale and her calf. He relives his encounter swimming with the largest living mammals on earth. Watch this video on YouTube
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Florida man finds 9-foot alligator at bottom of swimming pool
A Florida man searching for a stray golf ball found something much larger at the bottom of his swimming pool — a 9-foot alligator. Craig Lear, 38, who lives adjacent to a golf course in Lakeland, assumed that the bubbles he saw in his pool were from a ball that landed in the water, his…
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How Moken children see with amazing clarity underwater – Inside the Human Body – BBC One
Moken sea gypsies in Thailand have an extraordinary ability to overrule an automatic reflex of the eye which allows them to see with amazing clarity under water. But recent studies show that any child can learn this trick. Watch this video on YouTube
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Racehorse Rebel Rover survives two-hour, 11km swim in Brisbane
A racehorse has survived a two-hour swim, covering 11km, after being scared during a training run on a beach in Brisbane, Australia. Rebel Rover was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate beach when he unseated his rider and headed deeper. The five-year-old gelding was picked up by the Brisbane Water Police and a marine…
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Close call with shark caught on camera
A swimmer got quite the surprise when he nearly swam into a shark. Sergey Sverdlov caught the encounter on camera. Watch this video on YouTube
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Could Big Dinosaurs Swim? Scientists Follow the Footprints
How far can you trust a footprint? Dinosaur footprints are fascinating but there’s a question over how reliable they are at providing information about the palaeobiology of the creatures that made them. While certain prints have been used as evidence that dinosaurs could swim, new research now suggests that the picture is not so clear.…
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Divers Come Face-To-Face With Giant Sunfish In Rare Encounter
It’s a monster from the deep. Divers came face-to-face with a rare sunfish, off the coast of Portugal. Watch this video on YouTube