Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

The Vancouver-based animal rights group Lifeforce wants the Vancouver Aquarium to free Daisy the porpoise. Tags: porpoise captivity canada aquariums vancouver. Here is a video from the group.

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Porpoises Groups Canada Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

There are Harbour Porpoises right next to the ferry! I already know that for sea-watching I need to go to the lighthouse, walk down on the right-hand side following the sign Silvergrottan to the rather luxurious viewing platform on the tip of the cape. What’s that? A fin, another one. So it is this morning.

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Sweden Birds Porpoises Deer 167

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

It may be part of the reason I find them unnerving, it is only the smart creatures that can do actual bad things, instead of just wild animal things. Happy tourists amongst a massive pod (which went for a while either side of this shot) of Dusky Dolphins right off the coast of Kaikoura. And dolphins can do bad things. Akaroa Harbour.

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