Mike from Vsauce explores the history and psychology of banging the hands together – a homogenising social ritual that’s becoming increasingly redundant.
Category Archives: Nature
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A herd of Sika deer chill on a busy road in Nara, Japan where they’re regarded as sacred by locals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6jEYej00U
A supercut of all the nomcats and their alarming vocalisations of pleasure.
(Hat tip: Tudor Borisev)
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Del and Liam McDonald write:
Threesome! Roses in full bloom in Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Youtuber naturebatslast plays his dog Cecil several recordings of wolves howling. Cecil responds appropriately.
Wolves have a far more sophisticated range of vocalisations that domestic dogs, so – as one Redditor puts it – Cecil’s response could be something akin to George Costanza’s dismissive ‘yadda, yadda, yadda’.
Footage of an underwater sinkhole above a collapsing salt mine in Louisiana shot last Wednesday by members of the Assumption Parish Of Emergency Preparedness.
The phenomenon is part of an ongoing environmental disaster at Bayou Corne which has already forced the evacuation of an entire town.
Philip Nolan tweetz:
#LadybirdInvasion continues. This is the road to my local beach in Co. Wexford. That red stuff? Yep, bloody ladybirds!
A visual tribute to the spectacular (lately somewhat singed) woodlands of Colorado by Matt Johnson, who sez:
Colorado is currently experiencing some of the largest wildfires in the state’s history. In July, I visited the Bruce Spruce Ranch a little ways outside of Pagosa Springs and watched as the Windy Pass, West Fork, and Papoose wildfires burned thousands of acres of forest. I have never seen such a powerful event up close like this before, it was truly humbling.
From the Tumblr Head Like An Orange – a spectacular and constantly updating collection of clips isolated from nature documentaries by Netherland based artist Marinus.
Many more here.