Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
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Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas are two brothers from UK and two talented wildlife photographers. A couple of months ago, while they were taking pictures of the wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara region they stumbled across a very unusual guy: a pink hippo!
This is one of those amazing story that makes you love the animal world and that so many times I've written about in SeaWayBLOG.This story is set in the Mara River, a river in Africa, flowing through Kenya and Tanzania, that lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Serengeti/Masai Mara game reserves:
The act of drinking may seem like no big deal for anyone who can fully close his mouth to create suction, as people can. But the various species that cannot do so — and that includes most adult carnivores and our cats and dogs — must resort to some other mechanism, so if you have wondered how our pets drink this is the post for you:
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These remarkable pictures show the moment a tiger shark snatched an underwater camera system from the hands of dutch photographer Karin Brussaard during an underwater diving expedition in the Bahamas. After he took several photos, the shark decided enough was enough and grabbed the equipment in its jaws before swimming off.
ZooBorns is a very very nice blog that I advice you to follow if you are, like me, fond of the animal world. It presents almost daily, cute photos and videos of the newly born animals from zoos and aquariums all over the world. This time it has been the turn of some really unusual pups: Weedy Seadragons babies from the Georgia Aquarium.
(© National Geographic/Paul Nicklen)
I hope that this Sunday you didn't lose the premiere of "Great Migrations" on National Geographic Channel, probably the best and biggest project that National Geographic has produced in the last two or three years: a new seven-part television series about the spectacular migrations in the animal world, and with it, a big campaign to promote it, a special website full of content, and a book.
These are a touching series of pictures about a baby dolphin, probably just ten days old, which has been found by tourists on a beach near Montevideo, Uruguay.
Every time I saw one of those cages that are used to allow people to see the great white sharks in their own environment I've always felt a mix of adrenaline and fear, it should be absolutely fantastic but also scaring as hell... well, after seeing this footage from a 2007 accident, I've finally decided: Cage Diving is not for me!
Read here what happened in the words of the protagonist, cameraman Patrick Walsh:
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Huntington Beach hosted the second annual Surf City Surf Dog competition last Sunday, raising money for animal charities while letting dogs strut their stuff in a costume contest, a one-mile walk, and of course, a surfing competition.
Photograph by Mike Sutton Brown, via NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM
A wonderful shot of an Atlantic Tarpon hunting a school of Silversides. The picture was taken by Mike Sutton Brown and uploaded on the Your Shot section of National Geographic website, a place where it's possible to submit a favorite photo for possible publication in National Geographic. Just like in this case you can find many wonderful and ispiring shots there. You can also download this photo as a wallpaper.
The picture was taken at Eden Rock, Grand Cayman. For just a short time every year these silversides swarm caves and swim-throughs at Cayman's dive sites. The picture was taken late afternoon just as the sun was going down. The photographer was hiding behind the silversides, low in the rocks. As the tarpon swam through the silversides, they eventually saw him and turned away. Just like you see in the picture.
Have you ever wondered how big is the skull of a blue whale? well the answer is in the picture here above and it's a BIG answer...
After all, Blue Whales at over 33 metres (108 ft) in length and 180 metric tons (200 short tons) or more in weight, are the largest animal ever known to have existed (that means also larger than Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus and Whatever-saurus).
After all, Blue Whales at over 33 metres (108 ft) in length and 180 metric tons (200 short tons) or more in weight, are the largest animal ever known to have existed (that means also larger than Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus and Whatever-saurus).
National Geographic delights us with this first ever video of sea lions hunting a large octopus. The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat. It has been realized thanks to a Crittercam, the small package of instruments including a camera that can be attached to a wild animal to study its behaviour in the wild. Crittercam was invented by National Geographic marine biologist Greg Marshall in 1986. Since than it has been employed in studies on over 40 marine and terrestrial animals and on the Emperor Penguin obtaining the footagr used in the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins.
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As a photographer I've always found pretty intriguing the idea of dipping inside a cage to take pictures of sharks. Looking at these pictures taken in Guadeloupe with a white shark I feel even more intrigued.. It's for sure a strong experience
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Consider this post the third part of a trilogy video about the incredible skills of the octopuses after the previous posts:
Octopus, master of disguise
Octopus, the master contortionist
That Octopus is the most inteligent of the invertebrates is a well known fact but this footage provided by Dr Julian Finn of Museum Victoria takes it to a new level. In the video you can see a Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behaviour, a coconut that he seems to use as a portable armour/hiding place and, using both halves, as a den
©Tamja Askani
If you are frequent reader of SeaWayBLOG you should know that this is a place enitrely dedicated to water in all of his shapes, therefore I'm glad that in the picture above there's snow so I have the pretext to write here about this story that simply too amazing to skip it.
It's the story of a friendship between an orphan fawn and a rabbit, a sort of real-life version of Walt Disney's Bambi and Thumper (the rabbit that in French is called "Panpan", in Spanish "Tambor" and in Italian "Tippete").
First of all my sincere compliments to Tanja Askani who is a great nature photographer (and nature lover) and is the author of all these pictures. Take a visit to her website to see more pictures and have more details on this fantastic story about the fawn Finchen and his little rabbit friend.
If you are still not convinced that sometimes reality could be so similar to fantasy compare the following pictures By Tanja Askani with the picture from the Disney's movie based on the 1923 book, “Bambi, A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten:
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
Incredible isn't it?
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
©Tamja Askani
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First of all, happy new year to all SeaWayBLOG readers. Unfortunately the first post of 2010 is quite sad: in just one day (December 29th) two different whale mass strandings had occurred in New Zealand causing the death of more than 120 pilot whales. This is just the last event of this kind in a 2009 that from this point of view has been a terrible year (take a look to this summarizing post). Let's hope that 2010 will be better.
The first stranding occured on a remote and exposed Farewell Spit beach, at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. The stranded pod was spotted by a tourist plane pilot on Saturday morning when people arrived just 30 of 105 long-finned pilot whales were still alive but their conditions were so bad that they had to be euthanized.
It went better in the other stranding that occurred at Colville Bay, north of Coromandel, in the eastern coast on North Island, New Zealand. There, volunteers managed to save 42 of 63 beached whales as you can see in the pictures. In the tragedy there has also been a little good news: one of the cows gave birth immediately after being rescued under the eyes of the moved volunteers, as you can read in this TIMESONLINE article
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