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Category: Nature

  • Puffer fish chasing a laser pointer

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    Important stuff, via Geekologie

  • Scooter the penguin needs a cape to keep warm

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    The African penguin Scooter didn’t molt this year, which means she didn’t grow the new feathers that weave into a watertight coat, and the zookeepers at Children’s Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw, Michigan therefore had to put this cape on her, in order to keep her from going into hypothermia. Californians have had success…

  • Underwater ‘Seaview’ lets you explore the Great Barrier Reef

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    An underwater variant of the Google Street View service will from today begin giving web users an unprecedented photographic tour of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – and another reef in Bermuda will soon be getting similar treatment. Read more here on New Scientist and visit Catlin Seaview Survey.

  • Lucky (the) penguin gets custom-made shoe

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    One-year-old Lucky, a penguin at the Santa Barbara Zoo, had one leg that wasn’t growing right, making him walk with a limp. Zookeepers tried a splint first, but that interfered with his ability to swim, and they therefore contacted local shoe company Teva. Read more here on Nothing To Do With Arbroath

  • The Daily Show on PETA’s SeaWorld slavery lawsuit

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    Wyatt Cenac speaks to whale freedom rider Lisa Lange about PETA’s SeaWorld slavery lawsuit and finds out why civil rights activist Elaine Brown won’t get on the freedom train. Funny. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

  • ‘Bownessie’, the mysterious water monster of Lake Windermere

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    Sightings of a creature not dissimilar to the Loch Ness Monster have caused a stir in the normally quiet waters of the Lake District in England. Local swimmer Thomas Noblett, world record holder in fresh water swimming, thinks he was within feet of the creature whilst out of a morning swim back in 2010, and…

  • Seth Casteel’s amazing photos of diving dogs

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    California-based photographer Seth Casteel devised a series of ball games to get dogs playing in the pool, like holding a ball under water and releasing it in his “bobbing for apples strategy”, to get them to dunk their faces it trying to get the ball. “The timing of this is the most challenging part,” he…

  • Shy penguin too scared to swim

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    Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help…

  • Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful

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    If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main…