Category: Nature
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How do dolphins swim?
Read Digital Journal Dolphins swim by exerting minimum effort, according to a new study. This finding overturns an 80-year-old paradox that argues dolphins are not designed for swimming. By using bubbles in a pool, researchers have concluded that swimming dolphins generate thrust quite easily and have no need to compensate for their supposedly underpowered muscles. To show…
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Behold this bird’s eye view of Banzai Pipeline surfers
“Happy new year everyone! Thought I would put together some of my aerial footage of 2013. All shots were on the North Shore of Oahu, Pipeline. More winter swells to come!” Pipeline Winter 2013 from Eric Sterman on Vimeo.
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Man Rescues Deer from Frozen River
“One man’s fishing adventure took an unexpected turn. Instead of leaving his favorite spot with a handful of fish, he left as a hero, and it was caught on tape.” http://youtu.be/umsSX2YgOQY
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Adorable Baby Pygmy Hippo Takes Her First Swim
“A 3-week-old pygmy hippopotamus went for a swim for the first time at the Marwell Zoo in the UK. Jen Markham has the adorable video.”
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Behold dolphins high on puffer fish posing for the photographer
Via GeekoSystem Last week, we found out that dolphins get high by chewing on puffer fish, and the discovery was caught on hidden camera, but the footage was part of a not-yet-released BBC nature documentary. Today, the BBC finally uploaded a clip of the dolphins passing the puffer (fish) around and being mesmerized by their own…
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Crab Steals GoPro
“Bored in Paradise…. set my GoPro Hero 3 up outside one of the crab holes at a dive resort in Fiji (Maidive). I used the new GoPro app and wifi to sit and wait for the crab to appear and hit record from the building in the background. It all looked great until he disappeared…
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Swimmers get chance to swim with whale shark
“Getting the chance to see a whale shark doesn’t come around often.” Come on, you guys, you are scaring away the krill ! ;-) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Freedivers capture near drowning incident when speared tuna drags diver into depth
See 9News National Jack Strickland had a GoPro camera strapped to his chest when he and his friend Aaron Gallagher went diving for fish, A Current Affair reports. Mr Gallagher was holding his breath as he chased a dog-tooth tuna 17 metres underwater, but when he eventually speared it the fish started to drag him deeper.
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Behold this sailfish chasing a dredge cam
Fastest fish on the planet. Awesome footage, and a chance to see how it uses its sail. sailfish and the dredge from Let It Ride 68 on Vimeo. Image courtesy of jidanchaomian, CC BY-SA 2.0