8/31/19
8/22/19
BEACH CLEAN UP!
If you live near a shore, chances are there is some volunteer group that you can get together with to clean up the beach. Plastics are especially important to retrieve from the beaches, but all fast food containers, cold drink cans and bottles, everything you bring in, should be picked up and taken to a recycling place or put into home bins for pick up.
Group efforts give you a chance to meet other people who are ecology and animal welfare advocates. But if EVERYONE was mindful about taking all their trash home with them in the first place the beaches would have less refuse on them to clean up between group efforts.
Remember that it takes forever for plastics to degrade and even small worn pieces can be swallowed and kill fish and other sea creatures and birds.
8/14/19
8/9/19
TWELVE FOOT LONG GIANT SQUID CAPTURED ON FILM in GULF OF MEXICO
NEWSWEEK - RARE VIDEO OF 12 FOOT LONG GIANT SQUID by Aristos Georgiou
EXCERPT: "You feel very alive, " Nathan Robinson, one of the scientists aboard the expedition said in a statement, describing the moment that he saw the footage. "There's something instinctual about these animals that captures the imagination of everyone - the wonder that there are these huge animals out there on our planet that we know so little about, and that we've only caught on camera a couple of times."
The Medusa Camera System which uses red light in dark waters that won't scare the creatures was used.
EXCERPT: "You feel very alive, " Nathan Robinson, one of the scientists aboard the expedition said in a statement, describing the moment that he saw the footage. "There's something instinctual about these animals that captures the imagination of everyone - the wonder that there are these huge animals out there on our planet that we know so little about, and that we've only caught on camera a couple of times."
8/8/19
WATCH A RARE VIDEO of a RARE TRANSPARENT PIGLET SQUID!
MOTHER NATURE NETWORK : TRANSPARENT PIGLET SQUID by Ben Bolton
EXCERPT: The piglet squid is able to regulate boyancey with an ammonia-filled internal chamber, and it often floats with its tentacles above its head as you can see in the video (at the website above.) The video was recorded at about 4,544 feet below the ocean near Palmyra Atoll...
8/3/19
WHALE MOMS WHISPER TO BABES TO AVOID PREDATORY ORCAS
NEW SCIENTIST - WHALE MOMS WHISPER by Micheal La Page
EXCERPT: The whales feed near Antarctica during the summer and then migrate north to coastal waters during the winter to give birth and breed. The mothers and calves remain there for three months and often keep very close to shore, just beyond the breaking waves.
It is suspected they do this because the noise of the waves helps mask any sounds they make and thus makes it harder for predators such as killer whales and sharks to find them. The findings of Mia Nielson of Aarhus University in Denmark and colleagues suggest this is indeed the case.
8/1/19
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