Category: Nature
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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 Tilmantaitė on Vimeo.
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Lochness Monster spotted off Skegness, or was it just 2-3 basking sharks ?
London resident Rebecca Clarke was visiting friends in Skegness, England, when she saw this strange sight, initially thinking it was just rubbish floating in the water, but on further inspection deciding it may be some creature. See Arbroath She said: “It might seem silly but I thought it looked rather reptilian, like a crocodile or…
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Animals Shaking Off Water In Slow Motion
16 different species filmed by the Georgia Institute of Technology, shaking off water in slow motion, in the name of science. See Buzzfeed