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Yes, everything is hard, but at least your family isn’t being circled by a great white shark

sudshr47 December 28, 2017

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Sharks are invariably a part of the sea in Australia, but this encounter was a bit too close for one family.

Jodie Brown was on a boat with her family of seven on Tuesday near the town of Port Victoria in South Australia, when a great white shark estimated to be five metres long began to circle them.

“It just swam up to the boat from behind and it was just circling us for about 20 minutes, it would just go round and come back again,” Brown told The Advertiser.

“We had to leave in the end to take two girls back to shore because they were freaked out, but the whole time it was just amazing.” Read more…

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Blue Planet Ii Culture Octopus Shark Shells

This ‘Blue Planet II’ footage of an octopus covering itself in shells to evade a shark is incredible

sudshr47 November 27, 2017

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And the prize for the sneakiest thing in the sea goes to…

Attenborough documentaries aren’t just glorious examples of television, they’re useful for scientists in that they document some of the most difficult behaviours to observe in the wild.

Last night Blue Planet II outdid itself, getting footage of an octopus outsmarting the aptly-named pyjama shark.

The octopus in question lived off the coast of South Africa in a kelp forest. She’s quite a good little hunter.

You get back here, young man!#BluePlanet2 pic.twitter.com/62q2QPrRfU

— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 26, 2017 Read more…

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