Category: Nature
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Behold Captain the freediving dog
35 feet in one breath, probably the canine world record ! :-) Here is him retrieving two frisbees in one dive, wow
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Bride drowns during photo shoot when wedding dress pulls her into the river
Warning to all wedding photographers, a newly married Montreal-area women drowned this past Friday during a ‘trash the dress’ photo shoot in the Ouareau River. The 30-year-old woman stepped into water that was neither deep nor fast-flowing. However, her wedding dress soaked up the river water, making it extremely heavy. She then slipped on the…
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Behold, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon officiating a dolphin race at Georgia Aquarium
Complete with a fished-filled trophy and all, see NBC Sports
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This pool is too small for even a baby elephant
Trying to count laps here, but it is difficult, via Arbroath
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Oh no, our hippo from yesterday died before he could be rescued
Not much rescue about that, Solly the hippo stuck in a South African swimming pool died before the vet arrived, apparently because of the aggravated stress experienced ever since he had been fighting for a position in his herd. Read The Washington Post and News24
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Girl catches 1000+ pound marlin, but no record since she couldn’t reel it in
Molly Palmer, while competing in the recent Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament off Kona, Hawaii, joined the exclusive “granders” club after landing a Pacific blue marlin weighing 1,022.5 pounds. It was by far the largest marlin of the tournament and would have earned Palmer an International Game Fish Assn. world record. But after four hours of reeling and gaining no…
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the…
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Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering
Wow, “Swim out to a rock island and climb around.” Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering from Aaron Eveland on Vimeo.
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Humpback whale breaching startles kayakers, boaters, pelicans
A woman kayaking in the middle of a California bay has captured the moment a massive whale unexpectedly breached just meters away from her daughter. 9News via Arbroath A few days later, a 69-year-old retired high school biology teacher spent an hour taking amazing pictures of a humpback whale rising from the water also off…