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Dolphins see themselves in a mirror
everyone should stop and reblog dolphins in a mirror
Dolphin: NO WONDER THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING. IM FUCKIN HOT.
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this is the best thing in the entire world
i’m actually crying
fucking turtles, man
it’s like, they know
It’s like. They know. You know? Duuudddee.
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This is what terrifies me about the ocean.
the few times I’ve gone snorkelling this is the most intensely scary but amazing thing about it, the bit where the reef ends and it suddenly just drops off and you cant see the bottom or what’s down there, and you swim over the edge and suddenly your in open water, and you feel so vulnerable like you’re a fish that lives on the reef, and you finally understand finding nemo
you finally understand finding nemo
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Rich, Glittering Plumes of Metallic Ink Under Water via Jeannie Huang
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From the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders come these mysterious patterns on the ocean floor off the southern coast of Japan. Japanese scuba diver and photographer Yoji Ookata, who has spent the last 50 years exploring and documenting his underwater discoveries off the coast of Japan, spotted these beautiful and puzzling patterns in the sand, nearly six feet in diameter and 80 feet below sea level, during a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country.
So what happened next? Are these rippling geometric patterns the equivalent of crop circles on the seafloor? Not quite, but the answer is still a good one. Colossal explains:
“He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the “mystery circle.”
Using underwater cameras the team discovered the artist is a small puffer fish only a few inches in length that swims tirelessly through the day and night to create these vast organic sculptures using the gesture of a single fin. Through careful observation the team found the circles serve a variety of crucial ecological functions, the most important of which is to attract mates. Apparently the female fish are attracted to the hills and valleys within the sand and traverse them carefully to discover the male fish where the pair eventually lay eggs at the circle’s center, the grooves later acting as a natural buffer to ocean currents that protect the delicate offspring. Scientists also learned that the more ridges contained within the sculpture resulted in a much greater likelihood of the fish pairing. To learn more about the circles check out the full scoop over on Spoon and Tamago, and you can see two high resolution desktop photos courtesy of NHK here.”
Busy little pufferfish boys wooing potential mates by sculpting the sand with their bodies. As far as we’re concerned, that’s pretty awesome!
[via Colossal]
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Being in the world’s deepest swimming pool is kinda like straight up swimming in the ocean!
Check out these photos from Nemo 33 in Brussels!
Photos from the World’s Deepest Swimming Pool
via Notcot
Want to experience this. :D
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Bubble Bearded Bear by Natcarm on Flickr
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Hannah Fraser swims dressed as a mermaid with a humpback whale off Vava’u Island, Tonga, to raise awareness of marine life and oppose whale hunting. Hannah has been fascinated with mermaids since she was three years old. She made her first mermaid tail at the age of nine, after seeing the film Splash with Daryl Hannah. Now she works as a model, actress and performer, swimming with whales, dolphins, stingrays and sharks. Picture: Ted Grambeau / Barcroft USA
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