What’s in a name?
You may have noticed that this blog has a rather bizarre name, surely something silly made up by me you’d think. Well the truth is when I was trying to come up with… Continue reading
Category Archive: animals
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Manipulating polarisation for a better view
Wow, haven’t I been ignoring this blog for a while?! I have had quite a busy year, and unfortunately blogging took a back seat for a while. In the summer I successfully submitted… Continue reading
Conservation Physiology: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Protecting Species
The way in which an animal moves is essential to its survival. Hunting, escaping, migrating and mating are all made possible through the various locomotor strategies that animals employ. As a biomechanist, I… Continue reading
Visualising the Footprints of Ocean Swimmers
Dr Kakani Katija is a bioengineer who works as a postdoctoral fellow at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Her work involves the study of how marine organisms interact with their environment, more specifically, she… Continue reading
Researchers get closer to Sharks with REMUS SharkCam
Dramatic footage of great white sharks attacking an underwater camera has recently gone viral across the internet. Filmed in 2013, the videos give a glimpse into the underwater hunting techniques employed by… Continue reading
Stunning Footage Captures Blue Whale Feeding
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably been fully engrossed with David Attenborough’s latest romp into the natural world, ‘The Hunt’. If you tuned in last night, you would’ve been treated the episode… Continue reading
A rare glimpse into the world of the ocean sunfish
Sometimes I see a creature in the ocean and just think to myself, “go home evolution, you’re drunk”. This is certainly the case when I look at the ocean sunfish. The largest bony… Continue reading
Octopus vanishes into DIY quicksand home
I have a great interest in anything and everything that exists within the ocean, I do however have a particular fascination with cephalopods. Their uncanny ability to blend into their environment is often… Continue reading
Update on the pico reef!
I thought I would post an update on my little pico as it has been a while! There have been a few additions to the tank since I last posted it on here,… Continue reading
The Story of a Dolphin Pair Being Returned to the Wild
This is the story of Tom and Misha, two bottlenose dolphins that were captured from the wild off the coast of Turkey. They were housed in a tourist facility and became an attraction,… Continue reading
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