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Stunning 'world-first' night-time images show a whale shark hoovering up a spiral of plankton [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| March 30, 2018
| Iain Burns
Posted on 03/30/2018 6:15:14 AM PDT by C19fan
This is the incredible moment a whale shark gulped down a never-before-photographed 'tornado' of plankton.
Warren Baverstock, 49, hung a single light off the back of a boat to attract the phytoplankton that the huge fish love to eat - and then waited patiently out in the dark ocean.
He was delighted when a 11.4ft juvenile whale shark rose from the depths to gobble up the plumes of gathering food, and he hopped in to capture silhouetted by the light.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: baleenshark; ocean; plankton; sharks; whaleshark
I want to go the the ATL Aquarium and look at whale sharks all day long.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:15:14 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Cool!
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:30:02 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: C19fan
Like Hillary going after a cheeseburger.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:30:32 AM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: choctaw man
Wasn’t that image lifted from the story about Oprah’s bathtub the other day?
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:32:40 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: C19fan
Thanks for posting this. Such incredible photos!
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:32:43 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Francis is a Nincompope.)
To: C19fan


Every time I see a Lexus automobile I think of the above 'fish' picture.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:42:30 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I think Lexus designers watched to much TOS Battlestar, they look like the grills on old school cylons.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:48:40 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Progressives - the crust that surrounds the well used and uncleaned urinal of government.)
I see the English writers are still using the word “Hoover” as a noun that means “vacuum cleaner” and even go so far as to turn it into a pseudo-verb, “Hoovering”.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:52:45 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: C19fan
I think the article is saying the phytoplankton formed their own tornado. It wasn’t something done by the fish to herd them.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Axenolith
"I think Lexus designers watched to much TOS Battlestar, they look like the grills on old school cylons." They're very ugly.
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:54:51 AM PDT
by
blam
To: lonevoice
To: blam
I always thought they looked like grasshopper mouths.
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posted on
03/30/2018 8:41:26 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
"I always thought they looked like grasshopper mouths." I can 'see' that too.
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posted on
03/30/2018 11:54:38 AM PDT
by
blam
To: C19fan
I wonder how many swimmers perhaps named Jonah have been swallowed whole by this creatures?
To: Olog-hai
Long time ago...played baseball with a first base man we all called Hoover.....
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posted on
03/30/2018 6:10:35 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: Pride in the USA
Thanks for pinging me to the pics. They’re mesmerizing.
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posted on
03/30/2018 7:44:02 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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