Category: Nature
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Sirenia Shadows, a swim with the manatees
The endangered West Indian Manatees of Florida get a loving tribute in Built By Wildman‘s stunning nature short, “Sirenia Shadows.” Via The Daily What Sirenia Shadows from Built By Wildman on Vimeo.
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Cat takes on hungry alligator
Brave little kitty ! :-) Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
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Don’t push your luck with crocs
Some people still think it is safe to go swimming in waterways across the Northern Territory in Australia, but Environment Department director of conservation and wildlife Brett Easton warns that they are taking huge risks by mistakenly assuming crocodiles do not inhabit them. “Some of the things that we heard continually is that it was…
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It’s a shark ‘accident’, not an ‘attack’
The concept of the ‘rogue’ shark, seeking revenge on its human nemesis is nothing more that Hollywood fodder, says Christopher Neff, researcher at the University of Sydney carrying out the world’s first PhD on the politics of ‘shark bite incidents’. He says we should drop the term ‘attack’ and all the other emotive language as…
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Wow, dolphins can snore (or sleep-talk) whale ?
Dolphins are known mimics, able to make whale sounds because they’ve heard them before. Now a recent study suggest that they can do this even while asleep, and even though they were born in captivity, and therefore never met actually a whale. Researchers from the University of Rennes in France placed underwater microphones in a…
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Dolphin has ball removed while awake, as they can only breathe when conscious
In this otherwise a bit silly (and sad) story about how a dolphin in captivity at the Nanjing Andover Underwater World in China swallowed a ball while performing, resulting in a 3-hour-long operation involving rope and hook and burning of the ball, a basketball player with extra long and steel wire … we get this…
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WHY – A film by Corey Rich
As Dale Oen puts it on Facebook: “Wonderful video about why athletes do what they do” WHY – Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo.
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Live manatee webcam goes online
The Save the Manatee Club debuted a live underwater camera on Tuesday morning at Blue Spring State Park, with which we’ll now be able to watch manatees seeking warm water refuge in the park’s spring run during the winter. Mmm, warm water … If you’re lucky, you might even see me ! :-D Watch live…
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Biologists capture rare photos of whales and dolphins playing together
Via Treehugger, they’re pretty excited that wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins take time out to play with each other off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately we only get to see shots of dolphins riding whales, and not the other way around :-P