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clannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says aclannyphantom:ponywindything:thatradicalnotion:Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-HugThis really says a

clannyphantom:

ponywindything:

thatradicalnotion:

Lisa Simpson at Stuff-n-Hug

This really says a LOT

simpsons is so next level


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Dolphin Show. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Miami, hoists Petty Officer 2nd ClasDolphin Show. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Miami, hoists Petty Officer 2nd ClasDolphin Show. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Miami, hoists Petty Officer 2nd Clas

Dolphin Show.

An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Miami, hoists Petty Officer 2nd Class Richard Parra, a rescue swimmer, during helicopter training with Station Miami Beach, Fla., off the coast of Miami. Coast Guard aircrews and surface crew members conduct regular training to maintain a high level of proficiency and safety during hoists from surface assets to helicopters.

(Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sabrina Laberdesque, 21 FEB 2013.)


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currentsinbiology:Dolphins Use Targeted Echolocation To Plan Their Hunting Dives  The central chal

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Dolphins Use Targeted Echolocation To Plan Their Hunting Dives 

The central challenge of dolphin existence is that your oxygen is on the surface and your dinner is in the deep. Hang out breathing air too long and you’ll starve. Dive too deep for food and you’ll drown.

To thrive, dolphins must use their oxygen wisely. A new study of one type of dolphin suggests they do that by carefully planning each dive, using information from previous dives to predict where food might be.

Thestudy, published Wednesday in the Journal of Experimental Biology, used a relatively new technology to record the locations and vocalizations of 33 Risso’s dolphins as they swam and hunted off San Clemente Island in Southern California. Researchers led by Patricia Arranz of the University of La Laguna in Spain used suction cups to attach small recorders to the dolphins.


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An experiment!If I were to move forward with revisiting more comics, I think a simpler style would bAn experiment!If I were to move forward with revisiting more comics, I think a simpler style would b

An experiment!

If I were to move forward with revisiting more comics, I think a simpler style would be better. I love using these colors, though. What do you think?

[Comic transcript: Eight panels depict eight different epochs in natural history: Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Pleistocene, Anthropocene. Through each panel, a horseshoe crab gets closer and closer to the viewer while all sorts of prehistoric creatures come and go through the ages. In the final panel, the horseshoe crab says ‘keep on truckin lol’ [sic] and the millions of years it took for this crab to get here and say this only add to the gravitas of the situation. End transcript.]


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Dolphin utility vest

Dolphin utility vest


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Discos, around 500 BCE. Bronze. Found in Messina, Sicily. Via Kunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaThe im

Discos, around 500 BCE. Bronze. Found in Messina, Sicily. Via Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The image of the dolphin, symbolizing the trajectory of the discus, was obviously inserted in multicolored material. The edge is partly undercut, partly left rough to ensure better adhesion in the bedding. Undoubtedly, the discus was a consecration gift and not a sports device: In competition, the incrustation would certainly have fallen out upon repeated impact with the ground.


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4gifs: Dolphins fascinated by squirrels

4gifs:

Dolphins fascinated by squirrels


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A Risso’s dolphin caught up in fishing line. Dolphin numbers in the Indian Ocean may have dropped by

A Risso’s dolphin caught up in fishing line. Dolphin numbers in the Indian Ocean may have dropped by more than 80% in recent decades, with an estimated 4 million small cetaceans caught as “by-catch” in commercial tuna fishing nets since 1950, according to a study

Photograph: Andrew Sutton/Central Studio

(viaThe week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)


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I got to smooch a dolphin

I got to smooch a dolphin


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cma-greek-roman-art:Fragment of a Kylix, 400s BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman ArtSize:

cma-greek-roman-art:

Fragment of a Kylix, 400s BC,Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art


Size: Overall: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.)
Medium: earthenware

https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.537


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Dolphin

While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing

While the vaquita is not deliberately hunted by humans, its downfall has been the extensive fishing of the totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy in China.  Gill nets used to catch totoaba have quite literally massacred the vaquita - over 80% of their population disappeared between 2008 and 2015.

Government efforts to preserve the species were perfunctory - “vaquita-safe” nets proved nowhere near as effective as the old gill nets, fishermen rioted when a related fishery was shut down for fear of it being used as a cover for tatoaba poaching (ironic, as that fishery used safer nets), and compensatory monthly checks to men losing their livelihood were meager, sometimes less than a man could make in a single day’s fishing.  The export of tataobas was banned and a marine reserve established, but poaching and smuggling is rampant, and there is little incentive to stop it.  A single tatoaba bladder can bring in $20 000, while the fine for being caught poaching is about $500.  Even now, the controversial Sea Shepherd is one of the few ships patrolling for poachers, and they can do little but film and report them.  In the meantime, dead vaquita continue to be pulled from the waters.

The latest estimates say there may be only 12 vaquita left in the world.  If the vaquita goes extinct, it will be the first extinction of a marine mammal since the loss of the baijiin 2006.


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