Category: Nature
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Annual dog swimming event cut short when canine uses pool as toilet
Giggle, this pooch obviously hasn’t listened to Lochte’s message A planned four-hour dog swim at the Longview Swim Center was cut short Saturday after one canine had a bit of an accident. The Dog Days of Summer Dog Swim began at 10 a.m. at the swim center. About an hour and fifteen minutes later, someone…
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Cool cat escapes dog by surfing across swimming pool
No doubt, if James Bond was an animal, it would be a cat, via Buzzfeed
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Brain-eating amoeba eyed in death of Minnesota child
Minnesota State Department of Health officials have been eyeing a rare parasitic amoeba in the death of child. Read and watch ABC News video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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What it’s like to be attacked by a Great White
Massachusetts General Hospital has posted this two-minute, hospital-bed video of Chris Myers, the swimmer who was bitten by a Great White Shark off Truro on July 30. This is apparently the first such attack in the state’s waters in more than 70 years, so it’s a rare chance to ask the inevitable question: What does…
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Michael Phelps wants to dive with Great White Sharks
And he wants to take now former rival Chad Le Clos with him, read Bleacher Report. “I’ve always wanted to dive with great whites,” Phelps told NBC’s Bob Costas in an interview about his post-Olympic plans. “Sharks are one of my favorite animals in the world!,” he added, which would probably not come as a…
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Stormwatcher Lucy Yang braving terrible New Jersey flood back in 2010
Excuse me if you’ve seen this already, I hadn’t :-) Via Neatorama
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Dog swims with Dolphins
Awesome, GoPro FTW, Go Kira ! Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
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Chinese divers have got nothing on this imperial cormorant
A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National Research Council of Argentina recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became “superbird†– diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds, feeding on the ocean floor for 80 seconds…
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Brave freediver spears and lands huge tuna amid circling sharks
“For veteran freedivers, spearing a giant yellowfin tuna is an ultimate goal, but one rarely fulfilled because the fish are so swift and elusive. But Wendell Ko, 51, recently bagged an 188-pound yellowfin, on a single breath, off Kona, Hawaii. And he accomplished this feat while surrounded by circling sharks.” Read The GrindTV Blog.