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A very curious octopus.
Watch this and be blessed
“Why he smoosh my head??? Wait smoosh my head again.”
TIL octopus behave like cats.
-behaves like a liquid
-head boops for pats
-curious
-attracted to one human in particular
-I can hear the purr the lil octopus is making
-both members of the Pus family
-and fuck off if you don’t think cats would defensively ink.
Upside-down pipefish Heraldia nocturna #marineexplorer by John Turnbull Via Flickr: The upside-down pipefish swims - well - upside-down. This also means the male, carrying eggs under his tail, actually carries them on top as you can see in this pic from Kurnell. Well-spotted Denise and Lou from URG!
Lmao juggling hermit crabs
Southern sea fan Sphaerokodisis australis #marineexplorer by John Turnbull Via Flickr: S. australis is in the family of bamboo corals. They are normally found in deep water - this pic was taken in around 18 m at Henry Head. Many species are slow growing and are important indicators of climate change. The delicate colonies are susceptible to damage from bottom trawling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_coral
A full-length documentary on the seal hunt in Canada, that you need to put on your watchlist.
It explores in detail the ethics, how the seals are killed, bled, butchered, cooked and eaten, a little bit of history, how communities of Inuits and descendants of French colonizers alike could never have survived there without the seal hunt.
They of course speak with and show PeTA (wow that guy is a real nutjob - he has a high position within PeTA and he says killing animals is wrong?! And he just sounds like a corrupt business monkey who knows nothing of the real world), IFAW, and they of course bring up our “dear” Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd (or “the SS”), though he isn’t interviewed.
And the big point towards the end is that while the EU has banned all commercial/industrial trade of seal products, they say “oh but traditional sustenance hunting by the Inuits is fine” and the Inuits DON’T like this. Because as they say, “we don’t live in igloos anymore”, and the seals are their main source of income. They can’t just eat and wear the animals personally, they have to sell them too.
The hunt is legal, but the market has been shut down almost everywhere, especially the EU-wide ban was a really heavy hit. And it’s not like the EU has some moral high horse to sit on, when our animals are still being treated like this (supposedly all filmed in Belgium, in the heart and capital of the EU).
The people living there, up north in Canada, are the poorest people in Canada, with the highest costs of living (check out the common food items costing six times more what you or I are used to, it’s in the film), and the highest unemployment. They live off of selling products like seal fur, but can hardly sell any today, partly because of trade bans, partly because of AR propaganda.
Children are starving and not getting food every day, because of these irrational bans pushed by AR organizations, who openly admit the cute seal face is a really good image to make money off of.
The difference is one side wants to make money for pure survival, the other wants to stuff their already fat bank accounts and buy a second summer home.
I came into this film with no strong emotions, but pretty much thinking the AR mindset is bullshit on this, the animals are being killed humanely, and I already knew killing tiny pups only for fur was illegal, so they are killing bigger seals (I was pretty confused by the very tiny carcasses though, they are not killing white-pelted animals, but the seals are still very small and young).
That you can’t judge an animal’s worth on its cute-factor. And since I no longer oppose either the Grind in the Faroes or the dolphin hunt in Taiji (because Taiji has evolved its practices, and the Grind was never really cruel), I thought I can’t imagine any reason I’ll oppose the seal hunt either.
And I came out of the film thinking pretty much the same thing, just knowing more details. IFAW in the film brought up (and showed us, filmed by them from helicopter) some seals being shot several times before they’re dead, and I agree that’s a problem, but unfortunately these mistakes happen in every hunt and slaughter practice. They didn’t tell us how often it happens, if it’s one of four animals, one of ten, or one of a thousand.
I think especially striking was a segment, quotes by two people, about the welfare and horror aspect of the killing and butchering itself.
“I understand people’s response to the sight of a dying seal on a white ice pan. It’s a very upsetting thing to see. When brain death happens, the seal is doing the wimp-swim reflex. A veterinarian will look at that and go “Okay, this is good animal welfare. Oh there’s lots of blood, the animal is bleeding out quickly. That’s good animal welfare.” But for the rest of us, we see an animal struggling for its life, in extraordinary pain. That’s not what’s actually happening.”
“You know the concept of a chicken with its head cut off? It’s a reflex action, the animal is dead. But if you take that image, edit it nicely, and show it to a bunch of people who don’t know any different, it looks like the animal is still alive. So all this stuff is just pure malarkey. Aimed at convincing people who don’t know any better, urbanites who have no concept of where their food comes from, whether it’s a roast beef dinner or a seal dinner.”
In case you weren’t aware, sting rays are basically puppies.
oh hey I know these guys! they’re in a little tide pool at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and they’re super sweet. If they see you standing next to the pool they’ll jump up out of the water and splash you until you pet them
Blue Shark with Pilot fish - Tony Meyer
why are we so lucky to live in a world where the largest creature on the planet is a peaceful playful underwater mega zucchini
T123A “Stanley” 😊
#killerwhale #naturephotography #bcferries #animalkingdom #orca #blackfish #naturephotography #ocean #marinebiology #whale #explorebc #cangeo #instanature http://ift.tt/2rcJhz1
georgia aquarium // 8.27.17
I might just be biased, but I think killer whales have the most beautiful flukes out of all cetacean species.
Hello. This has been created to organize interest in making a charity orca-zine-book thing. The release timeline is "in time to be available at Superpod 2018." That's July of next year so we have some time. We're looking for new material to make this book a unique offering; artists of course retain all rights to their work. If you are interested in participating, please answer the questions below.
If you’re interested in this thing, please fill this out so I can get an idea of what this might look like/how to proceed.
Filled in the form, love the idea!
Filled this! Btw, just a quick thought, maybe we could create a group chat for everyone who wants to take part in this, so we can communicate faster and discuss the zine? Not sure tho where could we make one (except for Discord, but I don’t know how many of you are there?)
johnjhargrove
Kasatka is DEAD. I tried my hardest to get the media to expose it and force SeaWorld to let the media take pictures of her and what was happening to her. I urged for an independent lab to be able to take the tests-although SeaWorld would never allow that, and for a reason- I loved her and I am so sorry that for so many years a bought into all the BS and thought that THIS was ok. I look so happy in this pic and I remember this moment. If I only had realized then what was happening and how it would all end for all of them. It makes me sick to my stomach I ever supported the cruelty that captivity is. I was naive. I thought since we loved them it made it right, that it made it all ok. Then too many lies and too many cover-ups, too many deaths both the whales and trainers happened and it just all died for me. Now my responsibility is to use all my experience to expose this industry until they too are dead. And SeaWorld knows the things I have exposed are only the tip of the iceberg. What I know will stop them for good. I’m sorry Kasatka.
The thing about John Hargrove is that he loves public attention, and therefore “knows the things I have exposed are only the tip of the iceberg” is nothing more but “I could expose everything all at once but then I wouldn’t get enough attention so I expose everything in parts whenever anything bad comes out just so that I get enough attention”.
Fuck you, John Hargrove. You’re making Katsaka’s death all about YOU and YOUR struggle. There was nothing to expose. She had a bacterial lung infection and she’s getting older so her immune system was failing. There’s no big cover up, it’s not some big conspiracy that you need to “uncover” with pictures. We had pictures. She was available to take pictures of whenever. It’s not like they were trying to hide her away.
He has lied time and time again and he acts like he knows these big secrets that we don’t know about, but honestly his bullshit is getting old. His time at SeaWorld was different to what it is now. His “experience” is irrelevant. You don’t work there anymore, Hargrove. You were fired for a reason.
Fuck anyone who takes advantage of a tragic situation and exploits it for their agenda
Hohn Jargrove is an attention-whore who makes up things on the spot and will exploit anything if it gets him a spotlight. Nothing new under the sun here.
this is incredibly good
