Category: Nature
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Models swim with whale sharks for fashion shoot
Models posed in their swimwear and accessories next to the world’s biggest fish in the Philippines for an unusual fashion photo shoot to raise awareness about poaching of whale sharks.
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Carpet python relaxes in Brisbane backyard swimming pool
“It’s so warm today*, even the snakes are taking a dip”
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Does a Sloth Sink or Swim?
I think we’ve found a new swim stroke here, the ‘sloth paddle’
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Seal spotted swimming in flooded British field 50 miles inland
In an amateur video viewed on YouTube more than 12,000 times, a seal is spotted clambering over flood defences at Fen Drayton lakes in Cambridgeshire. The reserve is more that 50 miles from the coast at Kings Lynn in Norfolk, where the seal is thought to have entered the river Great Ouse. read The Guardian
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Awesome fishing photo: Huge shark eats the shark he caught
Wow, just wow, Mancubus1 on Reddit via Geekologie
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Manatee ride goes bad
“Manatee ride ends badly. As a FYI; Manatees in Florida are protected by both state and federal law. They are protected by two federal laws: The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Manatees are also protected by the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978.” http://youtu.be/EISt5nFFSuE
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True facts about the Anglerfish
“Aside from learning that female anglerfish don’t really appreciate males latching on and transmuting into an obnoxious pair of gonads, shrimp, apparently, can be done in by their own overwhelming vanity. To tell the truth, we never saw shrimp as the kind of animal that would take pride in its appearance.” Read Geekosystem