Stormy Waters
“It was great fun swimming amongst the breaking waves, where the turtles fed. They’d get smashed in to the rocks as they ate but they didn’t seem to care. Lacking the shell, I had to be more careful” – by
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Bottlenose Dolphins near Toshima, Mikurajima and the other Izu Islands offshore of Tokyo swim seemingly peacefully- even willingly- alongside humans and enjoy full protection from the threat of capture or being hunted.
Photos via Toshima Teradaya
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Yay a swimming chambered nautilus
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Humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins are known to play together. Observed off the coast of Hawaii, whales lifted dolphins high into the air so the dolphins could use the whale’s head as a slide back into the water. via tea_and_biology
North american researchers at UC Berkeley and California Academy of Sciences have found that the larger Pacific-striped octopus has a unique hunting strategy: Rather than pounce on its prey, it stalks and gently taps it to startle it. Often this drives it into the octopus’s waiting arms….
The larger Pacific striped octopus ,
is, despite its name, no bigger than a tangerine. Also uses a “slow bounce” to hunt. With its body flattened, and dorsal arms reaching forward, the octopus glides with sporadic bursts of hopping movements before it snatches up its prey of choice.
The octopus is rare, in fact, science has yet no even give it a formal scientific name (belong to Octopus genus). Is poorly understood, however, a recent study shown, they are somewhat social, they mate face-to-face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.
Octopus 🐙
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