The awesome power of nature...
Mar. 3rd, 2009 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailsa_chanI've been watching quite a bit of BBC wildlife documentry at the moment. (Well, actually I've been watching quite a bit of Buffy and Angel and interspercing it with nature.) I've watched all of The Blue Planet now, and started on Life in Cold Blood. If you haven't watch anything like this recently, I'd highly recommend it (come over, I have lots!). However, I wanted to put a couple of vidoes up to share.
From the Blue Planet - Orcas hunting sealion cubs. Orcas are powerful, brutal and cruel. Watch this and try and work out when you first see the whale. You will probably notice it several seconds later than it appears on screen. The way these things almost throw themselves on the beach is probably something that can't quite be appreciated even with camera-work like this. It's about a 5 minute video, so if watching a baby sealion get tortured for that long isn't something you fancy, skip to 5.06. I had no idea they could do something like this - that little body must go 10 metres up.
The next clip is jousting tortoises from Life in Cold Blood. (Embedding is disabled so you'll have to follow the link, trust me it's worth it.)Brutal, cruel, maybe slightly less awesome. These tortoises have a spur on the lower side of their shells so they fight by trying to get this into the other shell and flip their opponent over. When one succeeds, it then torments the loser by biting it's face!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unyG39wncmw
From the Blue Planet - Orcas hunting sealion cubs. Orcas are powerful, brutal and cruel. Watch this and try and work out when you first see the whale. You will probably notice it several seconds later than it appears on screen. The way these things almost throw themselves on the beach is probably something that can't quite be appreciated even with camera-work like this. It's about a 5 minute video, so if watching a baby sealion get tortured for that long isn't something you fancy, skip to 5.06. I had no idea they could do something like this - that little body must go 10 metres up.
The next clip is jousting tortoises from Life in Cold Blood. (Embedding is disabled so you'll have to follow the link, trust me it's worth it.)Brutal, cruel, maybe slightly less awesome. These tortoises have a spur on the lower side of their shells so they fight by trying to get this into the other shell and flip their opponent over. When one succeeds, it then torments the loser by biting it's face!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unyG39wncmw
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Date: 2009-03-03 10:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-04 07:04 am (UTC)I think even though we call them killer whales, we forget just how killer they are. You look at a pod of orca and think Free Willy, but they're far more sadistic than sharks, possibly beause they are more intelligent.
GG says...
Date: 2009-03-04 12:38 pm (UTC)Re: GG says...
Date: 2009-03-04 01:06 pm (UTC)