Category: Nature
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Libby Trickett in the Kimberley – BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series
See Aquatic Super Series Image courtesy of Bidgee, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Swimmer catches 18-pound lobster under Huntington Beach pier
See Orange County Register “I’ve been doing this for about seven or eight years, but always out at Dana Point or Long Beach – never around the pier,†said the 27-year-old, whose father, Mike Ali, owns Zack’s. With his LED flashlight guiding him, Ali scrounged around the pier pilings, diving to about 16 feet deep…
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Bears go for a swim in North Naples pool
See NBC2 A North Naples homeowner watched from behind her sliding glass door as a family of bears leisurely took a dip in her swimming pool last weekend. “Two bears in my balcony! They’re trying to get in my house. I’m so scared!” North Naples resident TJ Ozbay told a Collier County 911 dispatcher. “Oh…
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Free diver and shark researcher William Winram’s new film Great White Sharks
See The Sydney Morning Herald Life as William Winram must be breathlessly exciting. One day you’re ocean diving (without an oxygen tank) to a world record (145 metres down in three minutes, eight seconds); the next you’re swimming with great white sharks and living to tell the tale. There used to be some big-wave surfing…
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Behold these Siberian percussionists playing on a frozen lake
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
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Australia’s swim-with-whales tourism more lucrative than Japanese harpooning operations
Read The Age Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling. Until now, the Japanese “scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic. But a satellite tracking…
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(Polar) Bears can do backstroke too
‘Bears Acting Like Humans Compilation’. Amazed that they can even imitate ‘coach in a lawn chair’ :-P http://youtu.be/n_syweDS2AA
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Rescued Sea Otter Munches His Clams
“This is Walter, a sea otter with a hearty appetite. He was rescued in Tofino, British Columbia in October 2013 after being shot. Walter currently resides at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre where he is undergoing rehabilitation. Here, he’s getting fed clams and shrimp. They also eat mussels, chitons, snails, prawns, crabs, abalone,…
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Sperm whale explodes here in the Faroe Islands
So you might have seen this video that went viral this week, now at 1.9 million views since the incident Tuesday 26 November. (Warning, very graphic, as in exploding intestines) The background story is that 4 sperm whales got stuck near the bridge between our two biggest islands, here in the Faroe Islands, Thursday 21…