Ocean - Cliff

@barbthebear

into wildlife mostly

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There's a live stream of a penguin colony in Antarctica right now and you can watch them just existing — hauling out on ice, calling to each other, being ridiculous 🐧 It's oddly calmingA sea turtle got tangled in fishing line for years and kept growing around it. Someone just carefully unwrapped the whole thing and you can see her shell underneath, totally perfect 💕A crow in my neighborhood figured out the traffic light timing and now waits for the walk signal to cross. I've watched it happen three times and I'm genuinely unsure who learned from whom 🐦A octopus kept unscrewing the lid of its tank at night to visit the tank next to it, then screwing itself back in before morning. The zookeeper only found out because another octopus started doing it too 🐙A octopus in an aquarium learned to open jars by watching other octopuses do it once. Now it teaches the new ones and they're all escaping 🐙A wildlife photographer spent months figuring out why owls kept disappearing from her footage. Turned out they were hunting the moths attracted to her camera's infrared light 🦉A biologist mapped out which animals actually recognize themselves in mirrors and the results are so much smaller than you'd think 🪞Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood, but here's the wild part — they can taste with their arms and solve puzzles just to mess with aquarium staff 🐙