Category: Nature
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NewScientist: Forget doggy paddle – apes prefer breaststroke
Read New Scientist Different strokes for different folks? Not when it comes to the aquatic ape: the first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orang-utans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply that we may owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past. http://youtu.be/VrXi3_G-1yk
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Friendly dolphin catches 10 lb cod, gives it to 14-year-old girl
Read swns.com via Arbroath 14-year-old Lucy Watkins and her grandparents were canoeing off the Devon coast in England, when a dolphin came by and started swimming around their canoes. To their astonishment, the animal dove down and dropped a massive cod next to Lucy, and started nudging it towards the teenager. Unsure still whether the…
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Experts warn swimmers of testicle-chomping fish in Øresund
Via Jyllands-Posten (in English) The pacu is a South American freshwater fish that can grow up to 25 kilos (55 lbs). It is related to the piranha, but is mainly vegetarian and has squarer, straighter molar-like teeth to crush fruit and nuts with. Believed to have been introduced in Papua New Guinea to aid local…
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Bold – A Waterlust film about Oceanic Whitetip Sharks
A short film by Biologist Austin Gallagher about getting outside ones comfort zone and interacting with Oceanic Whitetip sharks on their turf.
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Giant Pyrosome caught on video, looks like that thing in ‘The Abyss’
Pyrosomes are pelagic (free-swimming) tunicates or sea squirts that live in the open ocean, as colonies of tiny animals that form hollow tubes sealed at one end. Divers off the Tasman Peninsula caught this giant Pyrostremma spinosum on video in 2011 or earlier (judging by the YouTube video upload date), a colony that can reach…
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Beware, Dusty the Dolphin is a bit of a bully
Read Irish Central via Arbroath Swimmers have been warned to stay away from a dolphin in County Clare after the animal injured another bather. The dolphin, known as Dusty by locals, has been involved in four such incidents in the past month in Doolin harbour. Authorities have repeatedly issued warnings not to swim with the…
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What if you were swallowed by a whale?
You undoubtedly remember that video from a few weeks ago where divers have a close call with HumpBack Whales. But what would happen if a whale actually swallowed you alive? Earth Unplugged investigates. What if you were swallowed by a whale? | Zoo La La (Ep 43) | The Travel EditWatch this video on YouTube
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Whales almost eat Divers
While Diving Souza Rock on the Central california Coast Divers have a close call with HumpBack Whales. Wow.
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Huge tuna capsizes boat, almost drowns Hawaiian fisherman
Read International Business Times A fisherman has been dragged underwater by a monster tuna that caused his boat to capsize. Anthony Wichman still managed to hook the monster fish off the island of Kauai in Hawaii. But when the 54-year-old fisherman brought the enormous 200-pound (90kg) tuna on board, the boat capsized under the weight,…