Category: Nature
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Behold these Siberian percussionists playing on a frozen lake
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
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Australia’s swim-with-whales tourism more lucrative than Japanese harpooning operations
Read The Age Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling. Until now, the Japanese “scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic. But a satellite tracking…
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(Polar) Bears can do backstroke too
‘Bears Acting Like Humans Compilation’. Amazed that they can even imitate ‘coach in a lawn chair’ :-P http://youtu.be/n_syweDS2AA
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Rescued Sea Otter Munches His Clams
“This is Walter, a sea otter with a hearty appetite. He was rescued in Tofino, British Columbia in October 2013 after being shot. Walter currently resides at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre where he is undergoing rehabilitation. Here, he’s getting fed clams and shrimp. They also eat mussels, chitons, snails, prawns, crabs, abalone,…
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Sperm whale explodes here in the Faroe Islands
So you might have seen this video that went viral this week, now at 1.9 million views since the incident Tuesday 26 November. (Warning, very graphic, as in exploding intestines) The background story is that 4 sperm whales got stuck near the bridge between our two biggest islands, here in the Faroe Islands, Thursday 21…
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Swimmer’s ‘idiotic’ shark hug caught on camera
See 9News The man, whose head is only centimetres from the mouth of the lemon shark, has been bagged on social media for the stunt performed while snorkelling off the Pacific island of Bora Bora recently. The lemon shark moves gently through the water as the snorkeler, dressed in board shorts and flippers, approaches and…
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…
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Fussy seal pup doesn’t want to go into the ice hole
And who can blame it http://youtu.be/ofYYxIRU-00
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How many firefighters does it take to get a moose calf out of a swimming pool ?
The answer is a lot, if the pool is empty and the moose not sedated Story here on VG, thanks Sander!