Tag: hunting

December 21, 2014 at 1:08 pm

Guy Catches Monster Lake Trout Ice Fishing 32 km Out on Lake Superior

Guy Catches Monster Lake Trout Ice Fishing 32 km Out on Lake Superior

Watch this guy catch and release a monster lake trout while ice fishing about 20 miles out onto Lake Superior. I love how excited they are!

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December 18, 2014 at 4:42 pm

Drone Captures Huge Pod of Humpbacks Feeding in Alaska

Drone Captures Huge Pod of Humpbacks Feeding in Alaska

A drone captures a large pod of Humpback Whales feeding in the pristine waters of Alaska. The aerial drone footage, captured by AkxPro, shows a seagull’s POV of the scene. The humpbacks are using a coordinated hunting technique known as ‘bubble net feeding’. They start by making incredibly high-pitched noises which drives the fish…

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December 5, 2014 at 4:40 pm

Just an Owl Going for a Swim

Just an Owl Going for a Swim

Apparently this owl retreated to the water for a swim to escape two peregrine falcons. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an owl swimming before, but the form looks good! The video was taken at Loyola Park Beach in Rogers Park, Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan.

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September 24, 2014 at 1:57 pm

Bold Mongoose Fends Off Four Lions

Bold Mongoose Fends Off Four Lions

Watch a mongoose fend off four lions in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Attention honey badgers! A challenger has risen.

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September 10, 2014 at 9:47 am

Blue Heron Eats Gopher to Soothing Commentary

Blue Heron Eats Gopher to Soothing Commentary

Jessie Garza couldn’t figure out why a Blue Heron was hanging around his yard for the past week. Then on June 26, 2014 he discovered the reason. Huh! Some say Kathy still doesn’t care to this day.

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August 6, 2014 at 9:35 am

Shark Cam Captures More Than It Bargained For

Shark Cam Captures More Than It Bargained For

In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS ‘SharkCam’ underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. The SharkCam was outfitted with six cameras: 5 mounted on the nose and one facing the rear of the vehicle. This gave scientists…

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June 26, 2014 at 8:58 pm

How To Fool Baboons Into Revealing their Secret Water Supply

How To Fool Baboons Into Revealing their Secret Water Supply

Baboons always have a secret supply of water but getting them to reveal the location is another story. When the Machalahari people go hunting, water is scarce and knowing where a fresh supply is located is invaluable. This is a clip from the 1974 nature documentary Animals are Beautiful People. The film is about…

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May 7, 2014 at 10:55 am

How Foxes Hunt What They Can’t See

How Foxes Hunt What They Can't See

How do you hunt for food when your prey is scurrying beneath a foot of snow? Well if you’re a sly red fox, you use your sensitive hearing and the magnetic North Pole to plot your trajectory. This clip is from the Discovery Channel television series North America

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April 28, 2014 at 12:31 pm

This Bird Catches Fish Using Bread as Bait

This Bird Catches Fish Using Bread as Bait

Watch this crafty Green Heron use a piece of bread to lure nearby fish. What a clever bird! According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: The Green Heron is one of the world’s few tool-using bird species. It creates fishing lures with bread crusts, insects, earthworms, twigs, feathers, and other objects, dropping them on…

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February 10, 2013 at 4:49 pm

How Diving Seabirds Hunt Fish

How Diving Seabirds Hunt Fish

Gannets are large sea birds that can be found in the North Atlantic as well as the coastal seas of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The birds fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. The technique, known as plunge diving, allows birds to use the energy…

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