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Watch My Octopus Teacher. Nice wee documentary. You will never eat octopus again.Tweet
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Had no idea octopuses...octupi? were this friendly.
Thanks - might watch this (post Bake Off).Watch My Octopus Teacher. Nice wee documentary. You will never eat octopus again.
Thanks for this - watched it last night. Beautiful documentary and some extraordinary footage.Watch My Octopus Teacher. Nice wee documentary. You will never eat octopus again.
Glad you liked it. I cried too. Although I cry at any old shit these days. I think it’s age related.Thanks for this - watched it last night. Beautiful documentary and some extraordinary footage.
I actually welled up at the end!
I think I saw a different but similar video on Instagram. Orcas are ruthless efficient and strategic killers. Amazing creatures.Footage shows pod of orcas killing a great white shark and devouring its liver
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...white-shark-and-devouring-its-liver-1.6610075
The video is a little underwhelming, the article is more interesting actually. One way or another, orcas are pretty cool.
Yikes! These guys know what they're doing! Not so cute now, eh Willy...
That was unbelievable. Thanks for the post.
I’m glad we made a pact with them after freeing Willy; can you imagine how dangerous the seas would be otherwise against a hunter almost as smart as us?Yikes! These guys know what they're doing! Not so cute now, eh Willy...
But yeah, pretty impressive. I think someone in the article I referenced referred to orcas as the wolves of the sea - and that seems pretty accurate. (And wolves are also very cool of course.)
There are actually multiple species of orcas that can be differentiated by observers and normally don't mix. Not sure what the level of difference is though; they might well be able to produce children together and not really be all that different genetically.I’m glad we made a pact with them after freeing Willy; can you imagine how dangerous the seas would be otherwise against a hunter almost as smart as us?
And I heard they are the most widespread species of mammal. Is that right? I’m guessing if so it’d be because there’s only one type of orca as opposed to other candidates, and humans are limited to land (or it didn’t include humans).
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Wow - that’s amazing!A remarkable piece of everyday wildlife camera work - a time lapse movie of a bird nest:
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I have seen other videos like that before. Really nice.A remarkable piece of everyday wildlife camera work - a time lapse movie of a bird nest:
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Spring Watch normally do stuff like this.I have seen other videos like that before. Really nice.
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Like looking at the gang map in GTA San Andreas.Tweet
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That's wild!Tweet
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That's gonne make a lot of squirrels happy - including the one that hid them there and probably never goes look for them in winter!Tweet
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(Not sure what it says about me but) I enjoyed the documentary but still not giving up one of my favourite foods when I go to Spain. Pulpo ala Gallega (sp?) Octopus fried in olive oil and sprinkled with paprika.Watch My Octopus Teacher. Nice wee documentary. You will never eat octopus again.
That 1st video is about the whale watching trip near the Farallon islands, not far from San Francisco back in 1997. It was big news back then as it had never been witnessed before.I think this video from a decade + ago is the first documented orca attack on great whites
Plenty of evidence on Youtube of Orcas eating GW livers
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This won the 'Image of Distinction' award by Nikon - it's an image of an ant super magnified. Scary!
Yep - the Farallons are wild, lots of GW around thereThat 1st video is about the whale watching trip near the Farallon islands, not far from San Francisco back in 1997. It was big news back then as it had never been witnessed before.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63380157A scientist has found that 53 sea creatures previously thought to be silent can actually communicate.
The creatures were sending message all along, but humans had never thought to listen to them, Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen suggests.
He used microphones to record the species, including turtles, communicating they wanted to mate or hatch from the egg.
Yeah, I was thinking about something like that recently: how little variety there is between land animals (everything that's not insects, including birds) compared to the insane variety you find underwater. It gets a bit more varied if you add insects to the land mix, but again, if you compare that to the sea, where you also have some mammals and then everything from sea cucumbers to stars to squid to the insanity of the deep seas - you can tell that life got out of the water only relatively late in its evolution!What I love about this is, how human like it is. Mouth below nose, below eyes.
We might be going back a couple of billion years, but that's our cousin.
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