Category: Nature
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How humpback whales hunt with bubble nets
To learn more about how humpback whales use bubble nets in feeding, marine biologist David Wiley and colleagues attached digital suction cup tags to whales that recorded depth and orientation in 3D, revealing advanced “double-loop” bubble releases consisting of first one upward spiral to corral the prey, and then a second one to capture the…
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Stay out of the Water (Creature Feature)
Skrillex SmashUp by Soror Ordo Ab Chao. They’re everywhere !! Stay out of the Water ~ Creature Feature (Skrillex SmashUp) from Soror Ordo Ab Chao on Vimeo.
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Flying Devil Rays
♪ You will get the hang of it, I know it. You will get better and better, I know it. If you keep practicing, you can get better and better as you do it. ♫ (Believe in yourself)
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The scariest waves ever surfed
In August of 2011, the French Navy threatened to arrest anyone attempting to go in the water off the coast of Teahup’o, Tahiti. Still, absolutely fantastic pictures, shot on August 27th by cinematographer Chris Bryan using a phantom camera. More Surfing Videos Source Mpora via thisiscolossal.com via Buzzfeed
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Penguins play in the snow at the St. Louis Zoo
“You’ve got nothing on us,” say the penguins to all those human ‘polar bears’ out there.
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The fat freediver in Egypt
Hey, that is the name of the video :-) Personally, I could never live there. Too few cod, and if possible even less haddock! Sigh.
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Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies features new exhibit
Interactive and with 12 different types of sharks that you can face to face with. Available only for a limited time at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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Whale jumps on boat, boat cannot handle it
This is from back in 2010, when a couple on a yacht off the coast of South Africa had a really close encounter with a southern right whale. Suddenly the 60-ton whale jumped out of the water and crashed onto the boat. Read NYDailyNews via bleacher report’s “20 most unimaginable flukes of nature in sports”
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Marine biologist risks 20 years in prison for feeding whales
Nancy Black, a marine biologist who runs whale-watching tours in Monterey Bay, California has been accused of violating laws that protect marine mammals. The four-count indictment accuses her of twice feeding killer whales, of misleading investigators by editing video footage of the incident and lying, and of violating a regulation that requires whale-watching boats to…