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antiqueanimals · 2 years

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Whales. Written by Jenny Vaughan. Illustrated by David Bull. 1973.

#marine life #cetaceans #whales #blue whales #pilot whales #dolphins #common dolphins #fish #cartilaginous fish #sharks #David Bull

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kaythefloppa · 2 months

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Wild Kratts: Our Blue and Green World Trailer.

Underneath the cut for those who consider it to be spoilery, but we have a trailer for the one-hour special, Our Blue and Green World, airing April 1st, 2024.

The Kratt brothers disagree on what's better; blue oceans or green forests. Aviva takes on the role of referee to demonstrate how oceans and forests work together to make our living planet, just like Martin and Chris need to keep working together. It's up to the gang to get Martin and Chris back in sync in time to save planet Earth from Zach and Paisley's villainous plans.

This special was first mentioned back in May of 2023 during an interview with Martin Kratt heralding the show's premiere of its 7th season. The original title was Blue and Green: The Living Earth before it was chaned to our Blue and Green World. The episode will feature climates and habitats corresponding with the Kratt's "blue and green." With it, will come the introduction of new Creature Power Suits: The ones we have seen thus far in the trailer are Indri Power, Green Anaconda Power, and Blue Whale Power.

My thoughts:

HOLY SHIT THE BLUE WHALE SUIT

*calms down.*

Ok but I'm starting to see a weird pattern in the PowerSuits in this season. For some strange reason, they have to retrofit the wearer's mouths to match the ACTUAL anatomy of the animal the suit is based off of. They did it with the Wild Pony and the Mountain Goat Power Suit and both of them were.... ugh. Now they did it with the Blue Whale Suit and to be fair, while I hate that particular feature, it's not enough to make me hate the suit. In fact, I kinda like it more because of how silly it looks (Martin is the perfect person to wear this suit tbh). Still though, I wish they designed it like the Crocodile, Hippo, or Puffin Suit where the giant mouth is simply an attachment that doesn't move while the wearer speaks.

For those who don't know, Indris are the largest species of lemur in the world (alongside Diademed Sifakas). They are the only animals besides humans that can find and use rhythm using "wailing songs" to communicate. They're also critically endangered due to slash and burn of their habitats and poaching for their flesh as delicacies (yeah, very odd that Gourmand isn't here, but I digress). There's an estimate to be less than 10,000 left in the wild and are expected to have a population net decrease by 80% within the next 30 years... yeah, considering that they're endemic to Madagascar, not a very good sign. I didn't even know what an Indri was until reading the article, and if I'm not the only one who had no clue about these guys, it's probably definitely a good sign that they're getting some spotlight in this show.

The Indri Power Suit looks so goofy, but again, something about how silly it looks just makes me appreciate it all the more. I... weirdly expected it to be way bigger like the Puffin Suit, but again that's just me.

I am a huge fan of how they designed the snake-inspired Creature Power Suits in the show. But the Anaconda Creature Power Suit... holy shit.

LOOK AT IT /POS

Look at the markings! Look at the green! Look at the patterns, and the color schemes! Chris FINALLY got a green Creature Power Suit to activate! Our boi won! It's also a pretty clever callback to the Amazon special where Chris met the Anaconda (I really hope the Power Disc for this suit is green because god that would be so aesthetically pleasing).

Ngl, if the old flash games were still on the website, and this was one of the Power Suits I could earn for my character, I'd play it in a heart-beat.

I'm really interested to see the Zach/Paisley team up. This season already started to utilize her better by giving her another solo appearance, and now we're seeing a 1 on 1 team up with her and another villain. I was always gunning for a Paisley/Donita teamup but this works too. They're both very similar characters that can bounce off each other in similar, yet different ways (I actually headcanon that they're related - second cousins to be exact - because of those similarities). The final battle is gonna be kickass.

If you were to tell me without any context at all that this was a screencap from the upcoming WK feature film (that this episode is often mistaken for), I would believe you. Because HOLY SHIT! The linework, the lighting, the hues, AND the shading! I am becoming more and more grateful for the 2-year long hiatus - the animators needed time to cook and they fucking COOKED. For an extended TV episode, this is pretty damn impressive.

People don't talk enough about this, but fun-fact: A lot of the animators of this show had experience working for Disney. Erika Worthylake was one of the artists on this show, doing several beta designs for animals such as wild ponies and salmon sharks. In 2019, she was the lead designer for Anga, one of the new characters in Disney's The Lion Guard (which, much like Wild Kratts, was animated in Toon Boom). Ben Balistreri had collaberated with the Kratt Brothers and Luc Chamberland in 2007 to work on the show's pilot episode, creating several different designs for the animated characters. Ten years later, he became the executive co-producer of Tangled: The Series. Kendal Brouet, who animated A Creature Christmas, worked on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder in 2022. Just to name a few. It's just a fun little thing that comes up in the back of my mind whenever the topic of WK animation comes up, and this instance of animation is so fucking good that I HAVE to talk about it, because I have MAJOR respect for these guys, and if there were ever moments in the show that remind me "Oh, this slaps," I just remember what these talented artists worked on through the years and it clicks together nicely in my brain.

According to Whrokids, this episode is gonna have a runtime of 58 minutes. I found this screenshot of someone who did far more searching and sleuthing for new episode content (they were the ones who found this trailer actually). I'm not sure how valid this particular screenshot is, but if this is the case, then this will be the longest episode of Wild Kratts in history, and will be the closest thing we get to a Wild Kratts movie (until the actual WK movie is released in theaters).

Fucking. Hyped.

#wild kratts #pbs kids #kratt brothers #martin kratt #chris kratt #wk season 7 #wild kratts fandom #wk #wk chris #wk martin #wild kratts creature powers #blue whales #indri #lemur #animals #I officially have a new reason for living thank you very much #2024 #This better not be an April Fools' prank I stg.

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monstermonger · 1 year

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Leviathan

#leviathan #sea monster #seamonster #fantasy creatures #dragon #whales #blue whales #deep sea #ink art #ocean

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uboat53 · 2 years

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Fun science news! The Blue Whale may not only be the largest animal that has ever lived, it may also be the largest animal that's capable of surviving at all.

Turns out there's a balance between abundance of food, marine habitat, and heart size that limits how big an animal can be. It's some cool research!

#science #science news #biology #whale biology #blue whales #cetaceans

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wachinyeya · 5 months

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#blue whales #ocean life #marine animals #marine biology #marine life #good news #science #environmentalism #environment #nature #animals

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macmanx · 3 months

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nature is amazing and mysterious

#blue whales #taylor swift #super bowl #broflakes #mltshp

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heartfulsweetn · 9 months

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hashtag autism (correct me if im wrong ofc)

#queer and disabled #not a drawing #not art #bioshock #atlas bioshock #rapture #bioshock 2 #marine life #atlantic ocean #titanic #blue whales #im so autistic abt oceans and marine life god #and it just pains me #that didnt even think about it for a minute #but maybe i got smth wrong idk i havent played the first game for a pretty long time

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unbfacts · 2 years

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#blue whales #mammal #marine animals #facts

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dogungus-the-frail · 8 months

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I am so honoured to be able to live in the same time period as blue whales. I'll never see one, but I'm literally alive while blue whales are also alive.

I feel fulfilled right now.

#blue whales #whales #cetaceans #animals #random thoughts

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bees-knees-on-toast · 3 months

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Did you know that the largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a cantaloupe? Quite fascinating considering how large they are

#blue whales #whales #cantaloupe #swallow #small throat #large creature

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 1 year

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Valentine's Day is about the heart—which means it's the perfect time to remind you that 440-lb whale hearts like this one exist.

Normally when a whale dies, it becomes a rotting feast for birds and sharks. But luckily for mammalogy technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, a blue whale that washed up in Newfoundland in 2014 was in good enough condition that they were able to preserve its gigantic ticker. “Its sheer size alone accelerates decomposition, so it’s remarkable we got to salvage a heart,” says Jacqueline Miller, who led the first-of-its-kind preservation effort.

📸: Royal Ontario Museum

- Wired Facebook page.

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antiqueanimals · 10 months

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Florida Wildlife, December 1968. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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#mammals #felines #bobcats #rodents #squirrels #fox squirrels #voles #meadow voles #marine life #cetaceans #whales #blue whales #Wallace Hughes

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dpargyle · 1 year

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'wild exiles of a weird testament'

(Sketchbook Pro, PowerPoint, remove[dot]bg, beFunky Photo Editor, & PhotoMosh)

Images (Edited) Courtesy of: Sam Loveland, Andrea De Santis, Eleanore Stohner, Rafael Cerqueira, Jaime Reimer, & Pixabay (Pexels)

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undeadassassin666 · 9 months

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All blue whales are liberals because, as mammals, they have hair and presumably use pronouns.

#whale #whales #cetaceans #blue whales #fun facts

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chrismho · 1 year

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getting into painting on procreate again

#digital painting #blue whales #blue whale #digital art #fantasy art #lucid dream #lucid dreaming #digital illustration #marine art #ocean art #artblr #underwater #under the sea

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wayti-blog · 2 years

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“A study by MBARI researchers and their collaborators published today in Ecology Letters sheds new light on the movements of mysterious, endangered blue whales. The research team used a directional hydrophone on MBARI's underwater observatory, integrated with other advanced technologies, to listen for the booming vocalizations of blue whales. They used these sounds to track the movements of blue whales and learned that these ocean giants respond to changes in the wind.

Along California's Central Coast, spring and summer bring coastal upwelling. From March through July, seasonal winds push the top layer of water out to sea, allowing the cold water below to rise to the surface. The cooler, nutrient-rich water fuels blooms of tiny phytoplankton, jumpstarting the food web in Monterey Bay, from small shrimp-like krill all the way to giant whales. When the winds create an upwelling event, blue whales seek out the plumes of cooler water, where krill are most abundant. When upwelling stops, the whales move offshore into habitat that is transected by shipping lanes.

"This research and its underlying technologies are opening new windows into the complex, and beautiful, ecology of these endangered whales," said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer at MBARI and lead author of this study. "These findings demonstrate a new resource for managers seeking ways to better protect blue whales and other species."”

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