Category: Nature
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Hero dog rescues swimming puppy stuck in a pool
Amazing technique, and quick thinking too, switching from push to pull. Yes, Hasselhoff would have been proud ! :-) Via The Chive
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Freediving adventures in Iceland
Freedive UK took a small group of freedivers to experience some truly diving in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Things that didn’t make the video: Eating rotten shark, naked cliff jumping, eating Harðfiskur and Skyr, bathing in 44C thermal spas, …
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Niki Stepanek freedives on singing Humpback Whale
During the filming of stunt sequences for “Johanna and the Whale“, champion free diver Niki Stepanek dives down seventy feet to hear the song of a humpback whale, up close and personal. Photographed by George Monteiro and safety Diver Bobby Kim, the whale song was recorded live as it was filmed and was so loud…
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There he blows, the white killer whale called Iceberg
Scientists off the coast of Kamchatka have spotted the first confirmed white adult orca. The white killer whale appears to be healthy, at least 16 years old judging by its two-metre high dorsal fin. The only white orcas seen before have been juveniles. Read BBC News via Neatorama, see also the Far East Russia Orca Project.
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Toothless whales use fat to listen
If that was me, I’d be like Heimdallr hearing grass as it grows on the earth ! :-) “Scientists have long understood the way dolphins and toothed whales have been able to hear underwater. These animals have a special type of fat surrounding their jaws which can relay sounds from the ocean to their ears.…
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Ducklings stuck in swimming pool saved using sun chair
Very inventive, next time please shut off that lawn mover. Via Neatorama
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Amazing shots from the 2012 underwater photo contest
Intrepid photographers submitted over 700 underwater images for the 2012 Underwater Photography Contest and an adorable red sea slug grinning for the camera was awarded the contest’s star, see International Business Times. Personally, I think that smug-looking sperm whale is way more adorable! :-D
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Penguins trap air beneath their feathers to use when jumping out of the water
Wow, turns out that penguins use a “coat of air bubbles” as lubricant for when rocketing toward the surface at 19 km an hour (that’s 100 meters in about 19 seconds), enabling small species like Adelia penguins to leap 2-3 meters out of the water, and the big Emperor penguins to reach heights of 20-45…
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Aww, Dumas swims with his full-grown pet polar bear
60-year-old Canadian Mark Dumas has raised the polar bear, Dawn, since she was six weeks old. He clearly shares a loving relationship with the animal, swimming with it and kissing it an everything. That is until the predator instinct kicks in, of course :-S Read Time