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Squid eyes under the knife Jun 11 2008
What has eyes the size of dinner plates, fearsome suckers that cling to its prey, razor-sharp hooks to shred its victims and two beaks to crush the remains? It’s the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) – an elusive “killing machine” from the dark depths of Antarctic seas.
The week’s most viewed stories May 23 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 16 May to Thursday 22 May 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
Tags: africa, black rhino, blue, botswana, cub, dolphin, elephant, encounter, female, fluke, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, leviathan, lion, mammal, okavango delta, popular, rhino, sodwana bay, south africa, western cape, whale, wildebeest, youngHumans and other ocean mammals May 19 2008
Dealing with creatures in the sea on a daily basis often raises questions about how some more “sensitive” animals should be dealt with.
Tags: dive, dolphin, freedive, human, mammal, marine, ocean, sea, seal, sunfish, whaleThe week’s most viewed stories May 16 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 09 May to Thursday 15 May 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
Tags: africa, black rhino, blue, botswana, cub, dolphin, encounter, female, fluke, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, leviathan, lion, mammal, okavango delta, popular, rhino, sodwana bay, south africa, western cape, whale, youngThe week’s most viewed stories May 9 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 02 May to Thursday 08 May 2008) were:
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Unusual reef is full of surprises
It’s a special day at Sodwana, as the Indian Ocean offers up everything from coral and shrimps to dolphins and the world’s largest fish.
Tags: africa, black rhino, botswana, cub, encounter, female, fluke, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, leviathan, lion, mammal, okavango delta, popular, rhino, south africa, western cape, whale, youngThe week’s most viewed stories May 2 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 25 April to Thursday 1 May 2008) were:
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Huge beast shows why it’s one of the most feared and respected creatures in the African bushveld.
Tags: africa, black rhino, botswana, cub, encounter, female, fluke, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, leviathan, lion, mammal, okavango delta, popular, rhino, south africa, western cape, whale, youngThe Earth-Touch baby album Apr 30 2008
Over the months, Earth-Touch has been privileged to witness the early days, survival struggles and playful moments of many young animals. Here is a selection of these video clips.
Tags: africa, baboon, baby, bath, bird, botswana, burrow, calf, cape, chick, coast, colony, cub, delta, den, dog, egg, elephant, endangered, fish, fly, foal, giraffe, herd, hluhluwe, imfolozi, juvenile, karoo, kite, kwazulu-natal, lion, mammal, meerkat, monkey, moremi, mud, okavango, piglet, reef, sodwana, south africa, thailand, tree, trunk, video, warthog, water, western cape, whale, young, zebraThe week’s most viewed stories Apr 25 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 18 April to Thursday 24 April 2008) were:
The week’s most viewed stories Apr 18 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 11 April to Thursday 17 April 2008) were:
Wildlife news from around the world
Robotic aircraft to track marine mammals Apr 17 2008
Robotic aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may soon take to the Australian skies in the name of marine mammal research, if a project to test the technology succeeds.
Tags: australia, dugong, humpback, mammal, marine, migrate, whaleThe week’s most viewed stories (March 14 to 20 2008) Mar 21 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 14 March to Thursday 20 March 2008) were:
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Close encounter with a leviathan
The week’s most viewed stories Mar 7 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 29 February to Thursday 06 March 2008) were:
Tags: aliwal shoal, blue, camouflage, cave, coast, fish, food, kwazulu-natal, ray, reef, sand, scorpionfish, south africa, swim, turtle, water, whaleThe week’s most viewed stories Feb 22 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 15 February to Thursday 21 February 2008) were:
Tags: bee, bee-eater, coast, hunt, kwazulu-natal, little bee-eater, shark, sky, south africa, storm, summer, whale, whale shark, windFocus on marine footage Feb 5 2008
Earth-Touch aims to bring users beautiful footage of animals, including marine life, as soon as possible after it has been filmed (wherever we can, within 24 hours).
Tags: bluespotted chromis, bottlenose dolphin, cape fur seal, chromis, dolphin, great white shark, kwazulu-natal, marine, ocean, sea, seal, shark, south africa, southern right whale, whaleDid you know? Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins Jan 29 2008
One of the most common species sighted off the eastern coast of Southern Africa is the Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), which lives in pods of sometimes 100 or more animals.
Tags: beach, cetacean, common bottlenose dolphin, dolphin, in-shore, indian ocean bottlenose dolphin, pod, south africa, swim, techobanini bay, whaleWildlife news from around the world
Whale missing link found Jan 3 2008
A fossil found in a mountainous region of India may be the ancestor of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
It was known that these marine mammals had a land-based ancestor, but this link in the fossil record was missing.
Tags: asia, fossil, india, kashmir, whaleEarth-Touch’s top 10 videos in 2007 Dec 28 2007
Here are the top 10 videos and stories served on Earth-Touch in 2007, rated by number of views, and listed in reverse order, from 10th to 1st.
A serval cat feeds on a snake she has just killed – an uncommon sight, especially as the snake is a deadly black mamba.
Mammals of the world Dec 24 2007
There are more than 4 500 different species of mammals, from the largest, the blue whale, to the smallest, the pygmy shrew.
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Why don’t whales get brain damage? Dec 24 2007
How do marine mammals manage to hold their breath for so long without suffering brain damage from lack of oxygen? Humans survive only a few minutes underwater.
November 2007 newsletter Nov 19 2007
View the Earth-Touch April newsletter by clicking here: April 2008 Earth-Touch Newsletter
Tags: 2007, communication, kalahari desert, kelp, kwazulu-natal, newsletter, november, plant, south africa, western cape, whaleDid you know? Sunfish Nov 7 2007
Sunfish (Mola mola) are disc-shaped fish found in tropical and temperate seas, at depths of up to 360m (1 200ft).
Nearer the surface of the water they often drift on their sides.
The week’s most viewed stories Nov 2 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 26 October to Thursday 01 November 2007) were:
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Even though the pride of lions now includes six adults, the risk of taking on a large herd of buffalo in broad daylight is still too high.
Southern right whales easily identified Oct 30 2007
The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is found in the Southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
The Earth-Touch film crew has been watching these whales on the Western Cape coast of South Africa.
Tags: africa, atlantic ocean, barnacle, hunt, indian ocean, pacific ocean, south africa, southern right whale, western cape, whale, whale liceHaving a whale of a time Oct 26 2007
Earth-Touch has served some spectacular footage of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off the south-eastern coast of South Africa in the past few weeks.
The whales come to these waters every year to calve, and have become so well known, South Africans now sometimes refer to the ‘Big Six’ (lion, rhino, elephant, leopard, buffalo and now whale) as must-see animals.
Tags: calve, fluke, head, power, sail, south africa, southern right whale, tail, western cape, whaleDid you know? How whales sleep Oct 23 2007
Whales do not sleep like humans and other mammals do. They do not go into a deep sleep and do not have regular sleeping patterns linked to periods of the day or night.
This week’s most viewed stories Oct 19 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 12 October to Thursday 18 October 2007) were:
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A mother whale wallows gracefully among the rocks close to the shore while her calf, a smaller and clumsier version of herself, ducks and dives nearby.
At ease with sea creatures Oct 16 2007
One of the fantastic things you can experience working underwater with a camera, holding your breath, is a feeling of affinity with other big creatures in the sea.
Blowing hard: Wind and whales Oct 12 2007
Working as a videographer in the whale season can be quite difficult or quite easy, depending on where you are and the conditions in your chosen location.
This week’s most viewed stories Oct 5 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 28 September to Thursday 04 October 2007) were:
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Close encounter with a leviathan
A female whale, seemingly enjoying the company, links up with me and follows me around, careful not to swipe me with her huge fluke.
Earth-Touch goes whale watching Oct 2 2007
Our diving crew, Graeme Duane and Barry Skinstad, has been cruising about in the waters around Cape Infanta off the southern coast of South Africa, filming southern right whales
This week’s most viewed stories Sep 28 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 21 September to Thursday 27 September 2007) were:
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As it gets hotter on the edges of the Makgadikgadi Pans, so does it get busier around this waterhole. A group of six elephant bulls came running towards the water as their thirst intensified. Animals compete fiercely for water in Botswana’s arid Kalahari desert because it’s a scarce resource.
Whales: how close is too close? Sep 26 2007
By Graeme Duane, field crew
In preparing for our whale expedition to the Western Cape, South Africa, Barry Skinstad and I looked into the laws and ethics relating to approaching whales. Apart from proposed new laws, the existing restriction is that a boat may not get closer to a whale than 300m (328yd). Though it’s difficult to measure that distance while out at sea, it’s clear that you’re not to disturb any cetaceans (whales, dolphins or porpoises) while you’re on the water.
Tags: dolphin, hermanus, mossel bay, south africa, southern right whale, sunfish, western cape, whale, witsandWildlife news from around the world
Humpback whales recorded clicking and buzzing while feeding Sep 3 2007
Humpback whales off Southern Africa.
Humpback whales have been recorded for the first time communicating in an amazing series of underwater broadband clicks and buzzes.
Tags: biology letters, communication, humpback whale, massachusetts bay, toothed whale, whaleEarth-Touch team’s favourite stories of all time – please tell us yours? Aug 31 2007
We’ve canvassed the Earth-Touch team internally, and asked them to nominate some of their favourite footage published on the web portal so far. The results follow below.
We’’d love to hear what your favourite clips are – please post your votes and thoughts
as a comment to this blog.
The following stories received multiple votes:
Eyeball to eyeball with a great white shark
Watch the footage was filmed near Dyer Island, off the south-eastern coast of South Africa.
Tags: amphibian, bird, breathe, cheetah, crab, crocodile, crustacean, eastern cape, eel, gannet, great white shark, hippo, kwazulu-natal, mamba, mudhopper, mudskipper, plant, reptile, serval, snake eel, south africa, tsessebe, whale, wildebeest, zebra
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