Category: Nature
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Scientists strap cameras on sharks to get a “shark’s eye” view of the sea
See Los Angeles Times Scientists have strapped cameras onto free-swimming sharks, capturing a shark’s-eye view of their underwater world. The footage from 14 tiger sharks, six Galapagos sharks, five sandbar sharks, five bluntnose sixgill sharks and a prickly shark is the first to be taken of sharks, by sharks in their natural environment. One clip…
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Cute Pygmy hippo baby learns to swim
Winnie the pygmy hippo, who weighs around 5kg, spends her days sleeping, eating and swimming around the exhibit’s heated pool. http://youtu.be/SDt7m5UHHEQ
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Brave Swede strips down to his underpants in order to rescue duck from chilly lake
Between this and the cat rescue the other day, it has been a big week for Swedish pet lifeguards. See Nothing To Do With Arbroath Kenth Rehn, 38, was out for a stroll in Kneippen, Sweden, when he saw a mallard caught by a fishing hook. So he jumped into a lake and rescued the…
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Giant surfing crocodile closes Broome’s Cable Beach in Australia
See for instance Perth New A giant four-metre surfing croc has closed Broome’s iconic Cable Beach for a day before moving on. While Perth beachgoers were enthralled with a 2000kg sub-adult southern elephant seal which had “hauled out’’ on a city beach, Broome locals and visitors were captivated by the 4m croc which took to…
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Girl gets slapped in the face by a whale
We went whale watching on the Baja this weekend, for an excursion as a part of the Live Different Academy program (www.livedifferent.com), and unfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale’s tail. Luckily, she was fine and we got it on video!
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Behold baby elephants Baylor and Tupelo playing in a kiddie pool
See for instance zooborns.com, back in 2011 Recently, Houston Zoo keepers gave Baylor and Tupelo a big kiddie pool. Now that Baylor weighs more than 1100 pounds and Tupelo weighs more than 600 pounds, the small, inflatable pools do not last longer than 5 minutes without getting popped. The babies now get a family size pool which…
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Freediver survives orca dragging him under for 40+ seconds
Read The New Zealand Herald Levi Gavin, 23, was collecting kina and crayfish at Horahora Estuary, 30km east of Whangarei on February 10, when an orca grabbed a catch bag attached to his right arm. It dragged him beneath the water for more than 40 seconds before a rope connecting him to the bag came…
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Brave Swede Water Rescues Cat Stuck Under Ferry
Read The Local The cat had got stuck under the HSC Gotlandia II, which operates in Visby on the island of Gotland, and the crew were spurred into action after hearing strange noises coming from the vessel. “We heard the cat meowing when we were getting on to work, it had probably fallen into the…