NatureShorts

Some hungry lil buddies bringing home a dried up worm for dinner 🪱🐜

Here’s to celebrating the earth and snuggling sharks! Happy earth day everyone!!

He gave him quite a scare!

Beautiful bird of prey. It’s getting cold out there. Not sure why it’s still here.

The video shows an adorable newborn baby elephant still learning how to walk, stumbling around on its wobbly legs under the watchful eye of its mother. Baby elephants are adorable and most likely the most entertaining baby animals to watch while on an African safari. To see the largest land mammal on earth in baby form is just priceless. Newborn baby elephants are born into this world after a twenty-two-month gestation period. During their first week, newborn elephants must learn to walk. It is a time where baby elephants develop the muscles in their weak legs. This takes a lot of practice over and over, with a lot of falling and stumbling around while trying to walk with their wobbly legs. During a safari in the Kruger National Park, we found a herd of elephants and in the herd, there was this newborn calf shown in the video. It was the most adorable thing to watch, seeing how the baby elephant was swaying, looking off balance and falling over every now and again. The mother elephant was nearby her calf all the way and every time her baby would stumble and fall over, the caring mother elephant was there to help her baby back onto its feet. The baby elephant looked only a couple of days old, and it looked like the adorable baby still needed a few days to practice and exercise before it was going to be stable on its new legs. Definitely one of the cutest sightings in the wild we have seen in a long time.

swimming with big whale shark 🐋

Scuba divers in the Cayman Islands explore the waters gazing at beautiful coral and enjoying a peacefulness that is beyond description. Occasionally, they see spectacular animal life as well, such as fish, eels, sharks, and sea turtles. A close look at these animals is always an unforgettable experience. This diver was drifting along looking below him at the sea fans and corals when he noticed a curious hawksbill sea turtle tagging along just behind him. Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered and a rare sight, especially so close. But this prolonged encounter went on for more than ten minutes. The diver turned his camera around and continued to swim. The turtle seems to be keeping an eye out for sponges, one of their favourite foods, but he also seems to enjoy the companionship. Perhaps he was curious about the awkward human making his way over the reef, or maybe he was thinking it was safer to stay close to avoid predators. This is a young hawksbill and a large shark would make an easy meal of it. Hawksbill sea turtles are one of the most beautiful turtles. It is their beauty that brought them top the brink of extinction as their shells were collected for ornate brushes and jewelry. Their numbers plummeted as they were over harvested for shells, meat and eggs. Eggs on the beaches were dug up for consumption for centuries while their numbers dipped almost to the point of terminal population decline. Due to conservation efforts, changing laws, education, and changing attitudes, the hawksbill sea turtles are starting to make a comeback.

wow !!! What a dive!

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