Posts Tagged awesome

A prankster octopus…what could be better?

A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp:
Otto the octopus wreaks havoc

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Liked Planet Earth? Wait till you see BBC’s “Life”

Life – A preview of the series. from Documentally on Vimeo.

I’ve managed to get my hands on a sneak preview of the BBC Natural History Unit’s new blockbuster landmark series, ‘LIFE’ which is due to go out this autumn on BBC1.

It’s planned to be a series of 10 one hour programmes telling the definitive story of life on Earth. The following video clip shows Mike Gunton, the Executive Producer of the series, explaining how the production team intend to build on the awe, spectacle and epic scale of the Planet Earth footage..

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amazing shot of a gray whale breaching

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“A gray whale decided to breach between two fishing boats out in Banderas Bay, off of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s coast,” writes photographer Lea Wheeler. “We were told we might see some gray whales but did not expect to see one breach just a few yards from our boat. The winter and spring are good times to see the whales in this area.”

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vet got too close

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A crocodile clutches the lower left arm of veterinarian Chang Po-yu at the Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on April 11, 2007. The croc bit Chang’s arm off when he tried to remove a tranquilizer dart. Two bullets were fired at the croc, but it was unharmed. The arm was reattached.

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Octopus snatches coconut and runs

unfortunately the video cant be embedded, but its pretty awesome…basically, “Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters.”:

Octopus snatches coconut and runs

EDIT: VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE SO HERE YOU GO:

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your argument is invalid

this trumps all

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amazing commercial

for books of all things:

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face-off with a leopard seal

this is absolutely amazing, i love nat geo

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amazing shark gallery

from amos nachoum…here are two pics, click them for the link to the rest of the 10 pics:




here are the rest of the pics:
Smiling great white shark: underwater photographer Amos Nachoum gets close to Jaws




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talk about a fist bump

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