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Levi by markotapio

#landscapes

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Spring

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THIS IS WHAT VINES ARE MEANT FOR

#flowers #videos

vistale

You’re never alone in the ocean.

#animals #cetaceans #marine mammals

boredpanda

Self-Taught Finnish Photographer Takes The Most Otherworldy Night Photos On Instagram

#landscapes

iraffiruse

#animals #birds #gifs

scarlettjane22

Arabian

Bettina Niedermayr, Austria

www.bilderbettina.com

#animals #horse

americasgreatoutdoors

Ever see the midnight sun in Alaska? If not, you’re going to want to check out this gorgeous photo of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Photo from a few years ago by Gareth Blakemore (www.sharetheexperience.org).

#landscapes #mountains

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Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) - photo by Iain Sloan

#animals #birds

blazepress

Woodpecker in slow motion.

femscinerd

#okay so#they don’t get concussions#which is when your brain smacks up against the inside of your skull#they have super thick neck muscles that diffuse the force of the blow#over 1000G by the way#the nictitating membrane keeps the eyes inside the head#(google crocodile nictitating membrane if you don’t know what that is)#and they have this spongy bone stuff on the inside of their skull that cradles the brain as the bird face smashes into the tree#it’s glorious glorious evolution

lirio-dendron

COOL - I had to read more on this!

Journal reference: Wang L, Cheung JT-M, Pu F, Li D, Zhang M, Fan Y (2011) Why Do Woodpeckers Resist Head Impact Injury: A Biomechanical Investigation. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26490. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026490

Also, the possible source video with more footage! (Not in english) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akweH8KBcGM

#animals #birds #woodpecker

caterpiii

IMG_0392 by Spootnika

#animals #horse

nubbsgalore

kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes on earth, has erupted continuously from its pu’u o’o vent since 1983, oozing one thousand degree fahrenheit lava at fifteen yards an hours across hawaii’s big island into the ocean. photos by (click pic) tom kualii, g. brad lewis, bruce omori, cj kale and nick selway

#volcano #landscapes

rhamphotheca

Incredible Footage from Alaska:

A Drone Caught These Whales Singing as They Fish for Their Lunch

The marine mammals team up to make catching small fish easier.

by Taylor Hill

When humpback whales are plying polar waterways, they’re constantly trying to fill up—sucking down as much as two tons of food a day. They need to pack on the pounds to support their 70,000-pound frame before migrating thousands of miles south to tropical waters to breed.

You’d think that with their massive mouths, humpbacks would search out the biggest fish they could swallow. But no, their diet is primarily made up of tiny shrimp and small fish they filter through their baleen plates.

And with hungry humpbacks on the lookout for the same food supply, you would expect that they would keep their distance from each other.

But take a look at this seagull-view footage, from Alaska’s Prince William Sound, and it’s clear—humpbacks have a strategy all their own when it comes to fishing, and that strategy takes teamwork…

(read more: TakePart.org)

#animals #humpback whale #cetaceans #marine mammals