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If you’ve seen
Finding Nemo, you’ll be familiar with the surprisingly small prey consumed by some of the world’s biggest sea creatures (swim away!). To be fair, as a whale, you’re hard pushed to find prey items bigger than yourself so it stands to reason they have opted for gorging on bitesize snacks. Some feed on krill and plankton while others dine on fish, and dependent on their diet these animals have evolved to have teeth or plates that can filter tiny organisms from seawater.
An episode of David Attenborough’s new BBC series,
A Perfect Planet, last week showed for the first time a bizarre and ingenious new feeding strategy employed by Eden s whales in the Gulf of Thailand. Pollution from the land has begun to suffocate the waters here and it s driven fish species to the surface where the oxygen concentration is naturally higher. Eden s whales (B
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As the old adage goes: “never work with children or animals.” It’s a phrase meant to indicate the unpredictable nature of toddlers and wildlife which – however delightful – aren’t always the most cooperative colleagues. While many of us would revel in the sort of Disney’s
Snow White scene that sees wildlife flocking to you when shooting on location as a photographer or videographer, the curiosity of wild animals can be something of an obstacle.
In what can only be considered a gift to the Twittersphere, Joaquin Campa recently blessed his timeline with a 40-strong thread of “animals interrupting wildlife photographers.” Featuring animals from all over the globe, including meerkats, seals, and penguins, the thread is a soothing brain balm for doomscrollers everywhere. Some shots are reminiscent of Naruto the crested macaque, whose “selfie” became the focus of a years-long legal battle between the photographer David Slater and People for the Ethical Treatment
Stage-grabbing cuttlefish and heart-stealing flamingo chicks star in David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet. Sarah Marshall explores where they can be seen.