This is a video of a precious baby seal learning to swim as part of its rehabilitation at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Man, that seal is ALL EYES. What a cutie. You know I have fairly large eyes too. EIGHT OF THEM. “You’re not a spider.” Yes I am too
This is a video of Emma the psychiatric service dog letting her owner Tatiana know that her ball is stuck in the pool skimmer. I like how Emma is tall enough to stand on the bottom of the pool all casual-like. My dogs? My dogs don’t like water except for
In I’m pretty sure I remember a Mythbusters episode about this news, this is a video of The Action Lab half-heartedly experimenting to see if a swimmer (read: wind-up turtle toy) can swim just as fast in syrup as in water. The idea is that although syrup is more viscous,
An ultra-realistic robotic dolphin developed by Edge Innovations (who developed the animatronics for Free Willy, Anaconda, and The Abyss) aims to replace some of the 3,000 actual dolphins in captivity at marine parks and dolphin experiences. Some more info while I’m sad about my captive dolphin friends, but also a
This is a video of five time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky swimming a lap while balancing a glass of chocolate milk on her head to participate in the TikTok Got Milk? challenge, and not the WTF World Do We Live In? challenge like you might have expected. Her
This is a video of water loving German Shepsky Elliot climbing the ladder to his family’s above-ground pool to swim a couple quick laps before getting out and presumably trying to pretend like nothing happened even though he’s soaking wet. That’s like my dog trying to pretend like she wasn’t