Category: Nature
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Oh no, our hippo from yesterday died before he could be rescued
Not much rescue about that, Solly the hippo stuck in a South African swimming pool died before the vet arrived, apparently because of the aggravated stress experienced ever since he had been fighting for a position in his herd. Read The Washington Post and News24
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Girl catches 1000+ pound marlin, but no record since she couldn’t reel it in
Molly Palmer, while competing in the recent Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament off Kona, Hawaii, joined the exclusive “granders” club after landing a Pacific blue marlin weighing 1,022.5 pounds. It was by far the largest marlin of the tournament and would have earned Palmer an International Game Fish Assn. world record. But after four hours of reeling and gaining no…
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the…
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Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering
Wow, “Swim out to a rock island and climb around.” Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering from Aaron Eveland on Vimeo.
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Humpback whale breaching startles kayakers, boaters, pelicans
A woman kayaking in the middle of a California bay has captured the moment a massive whale unexpectedly breached just meters away from her daughter. 9News via Arbroath A few days later, a 69-year-old retired high school biology teacher spent an hour taking amazing pictures of a humpback whale rising from the water also off…
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Shark Feeding Frenzy at New Jersey Shore
I guess swimming was cancelled that day, via Buzzfeed Shark feeding frenzy in Ocean County, NJ, shot August 16, 2012 . These sharks were aggressively feeding on menhaden (moss bunker). The frenzy came within 50 yards of the shoreline. The sharks were probably (according to marine scientists), brown sharks, juvenile blacktip and sandbar tiger sharks.
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A pod of dolphins visit Diana Nyad
Still swimming from Cuba to the US, now less than 60 miles from Key West, Diana Nyad had some dolphins visiting.
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A Beluga With a Fine Taste in Art
“While visiting the Mystic Aquarium (with artist-pal Tony DiTerlizzi and family) I stopped to show a 10 year-old beluga whale, named Juno, my sketchbook.” Via Nothing to do with Arbroath
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A day in Berlenga Island
So that would be the Berlengas in Portugal. Rocky and barren with lots of water, I like it ! A day in Berlenga island from Berta upe TilmantaitÄ— on Vimeo.