Category: Nature
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CC photo #200: A tame duck outside the Faroe Champs 2012
No, not a lame duck but a tame duck outside the main doors of the swimming pool in Tórshavn during the Faroese (Short Course) Championships 2012. Someone fed it bread, maybe even cake, but when we went inside a gull dove down and stole it all.
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Triathlete suffers 25 bites in rare otter attack
Read Nothing To Do With Arbroath An Anoka woman faced a bizarre situation when she went swimming in a Duluth lake this week and an otter attacked. Fangs pierced Leah Prudhomme’s legs as she swam across the deep, dark rum-coloured Island Lake in Minnesota. It could be anything, she thought – muskrats, beavers, maybe a…
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Thieving whale shark sucks fish out of fishing nets
He he, an environmental group has filmed remarkable footage of a whale shark sucking fish from a hole in a fishing net. Read 9News
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3 Steps of a Cliff Dive – Orlando Duque Colombia 2012
10X Cliff Diving World Champion Orlando Duque describes his passion and preparation for the sport he loves, cliff diving.
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Great white shark bites surfer in half
A man in his early 20s was surfing with a friend early this morning off the west coast of Australia when he was mauled by a great white shark, which bit him in half. A jet-skier who witnessed the scene described how there was only “half a torso” left of the victim, and that he…
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Expect rain to play big role at London 2012
Ahh, just like home for some of us ;-) Tennis fans have likely noticed how often the retractable roof has been closed at Wimbledon over the last two weeks. There have been frequent weather-related delays, and the Met office (The United Kingdom’s national weather forecaster) is predicting more of the same for the coming month.…
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Swimming with sunfish and sperm whale
Daniel Fox having fun with his GoPro camera during an Atlantic crossing in 2012. Atlantic Crossing 2012 from Daniel Fox on Vimeo.
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