#bertie gregory

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Speeding toward a seal, orcas rotate to their sides in unison. The momentum will create a large wave that may be powerful enough to wash the seal off the ice floe.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERTIE GREGORY

#bertie gregory #photographer #orcas #whale #seal #aerial photography #drone photography #nature #ice floe #national geographic

[buzzworthyradio]

SDCC 2023 BUZZCast Interviews Part 2: Derrick Baca & Liz DeSilva of Loungefly, Amit Tishler of "Edenfrost," and Bertie Gregory of National Geographic

Derrick Baca & Liz DeSilva of Loungefly/Photo Credit: Eric Goldstein The Buzz had the chance to attend its first Comic Con in San Diego this July, and what a cultural phenomenon! From the cosplay to the exhibits, it was a thrill to have the opportunity to connect with so many people that share similar tastes in comics, television, and more! We had the chance to attend some off sites, activation…

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#Amit Tishler #Bertie Gregory #Derrick Baca #Edenfrost #Liz DeSilva #Loungefly #Mad Cave Studios #NatGeo #National Geographic Channel

[knitmeapony]

Very few things are funnier to me than finding matching Jeeves & Wooster and House MD GIFs.

He's such a silly guy. I love him.

Best friend bonus:

#jeeves and wooster #house md #bertie wooster #gregory house #james wilson #reginald jeeves

[starlightseraph]

“he’s my babygirl” *i point to the strangest little guy you’ve ever seen*

#gregory house #james wilson #RODYA RASKOLNIKOV #ultimate cutie pie #the ghost of dostoevsky himself told me so #the doctor #all of them #the master #all of them too #bertie wooster #you dumb little idiot you #every man in star trek #henry winter #well the entire classics group really #sherlock holmes #house md #hugh laurie #crime and punishment #doctor who #david tennant #star trek #jeeves and wooster #the secret history #bbc sherlock #starlightseraph’s brainrot

[privatehousesanatomy]

a fun reminder that this man's name is actually james

#hugh laurie #wdym his name is james #house md #gregory house #hatecrimes md #greg house #bertie wooster #jeeves and wooster

[little-smartass]

and here we witness The Duality Of Hugh

#hugh laurie #if bertie wooster existed in House he'd probably be being poisoned by a woman his aunt wanted him to marry #if gregory house existed in Jeeves and Wooster jeeves would instigate a series of mildly humiliating incidents #intended to drive house away from wooster before he can pop wooster's bubble of cheerful inanity #in short. house would want to dissect wooster or at least see how far he can push him before he snaps and commits murder #wooster would think that house is a jolly strange old chap! but an alright sort jeeves simmer down

[xtruss]

These Orcas Have Mastered Wave Washing. It's spine-tingling to watch. Speeding toward a Seal, Orcas rotate to their sides in unison. The momentum will create a large wave that may be powerful enough to wash the Seal off the Ice Floe.

These Orcas Control The Waves To Hunt. It’s Spine-Tingling To Watch.

Using a Technique Passed Down Through Generations, these Orcas have Mastered Hunting—On Ice.

— By Natasha Daly | Photographs By Bertie Gregory | September 13, 2023

The first time the Weddell seal notices the orcas, it’s already surrounded. Until moments before, it had been resting on an ice floe deep in an Antarctic channel. Then three killer whales’ heads appear, bobbing up and down. The orcas are hunting.

On this sheet of sea ice, the nearly thousand-pound seal would be unreachable for most marine predators. But these orcas—a matriarch with her daughter and granddaughter—are three of about a hundred known to have mastered a hunting technique called wave washing. The secret: working together to turn water into a weapon.

An orca bites a crab­eater seal. Unlike large, docile Weddell seals, crabeaters are aggressive and can be difficult to wave wash. As melting ice keeps more seals on land, these killer whales must hunt what they can find.

The orcas, having identified their target, form a battle line and start charging toward the floe. Just before reaching it, they rotate to their sides in a single, synchronized motion and plunge underwater. The momentum creates a wave so powerful that it floods the ice sheet, cracking the surface and whipping the flailing seal around. Slowly and methodically, they repeat the charge. The ice fractures more. On the third charge, the wave sends the seal flying into the sea. It scrambles to climb onto a piece of ice, then disappears from view, grabbed from below by a killer whale.

Killer whales spy-hop around a group of crabeater seals lying on an ice floe. The surfacing technique of spy-hopping allows an orca to survey its surroundings by holding its head out of the water, sometimes for several minutes, using its pectoral fins to stay afloat. Photograph By LeighHickmott

A Weddell seal reclines as a killer whale spy-hops behind it. Later, a pod of orcas successfully wave washed it into the sea. Photograph By Tom Walker

Multiple family groups of wave-washing killer whales get together to socialize. This gathering of about 20 orcas represents one-fifth of the entire known B1 global population in the western Antarctic Peninsula.

“It’s completely sinister to watch,” says wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, who’s spent a decade tracking the orcas, known as B1, a population of pack ice killer whales. The level of intelligence that goes into making each wave “is staggering,” he says. “This isn’t subtle. They are problem solving using very complex teamwork. They’re using water as a tool.” Sometimes it’ll take one wave, about five minutes, before a seal is flung into the sea. Other times a pod can wave wash up to 30 times, about two to three hours, before getting the prey. Scientists rarely see failed hunts. “This behavior is not innate; it’s learned and mastered over decades,” says Gregory. “Every time they make waves, it almost feels like more of a teaching experience than hunting.”

A pod of B1 orcas floats in front of a glacier, in a behavior known as logging. Orcas, like all cetaceans, must consciously open their blowholes to breathe. While logging, cetaceans are able to sleep by shutting down half their brain at a time while the other half stays alert.

A crabeater seal and an Adélie penguin rest on an ice floe while a male killer whale spy-hops near them. The orca attempted to hunt the seal, but after several wave washes and an in-water chase, the seal escaped. Photograph By LeighHickmott

A mixture of sea and glacial ice floats in an Antarctic channel as an orca searches for seals to hunt. In pre­vious years this area would have had much more ice cover. Last February, Antarctic sea ice hit a record low.

But as Antarctica warms and sea ice vanishes, Weddell seals are increasingly staying on land, out of orcas’ reach. To track how the B1 orcas cope with a warming habitat, scientists have identified all hundred or so individuals. They’ve found B1s are losing about 5 percent of their population every year. Whether this subgroup “will go extinct or just adapt their behavior, we don’t know,” says Gregory. But with fewer opportunities for the orcas to wave wash, “we’re seeing an extinction of a culture.”

#Orcas | Control | Waves | Hunt #Watching | Spine-Tingling #Technique | Passed Down | Generations #Master Hunting | On Ice 🧊 #Photographs | Bertie Gregory #Natasha Daly #National Geographic

[cinemedios]

Estrenos de Disney+ en septiembre

🍿Con estrenos todas las semanas, Disney+ presenta nuevos contenidos de la plataforma para todas las edades en septiembre. ✨

Películas de estreno LA SIRENITA Estreno: miércoles 6 de septiembre Basada en el clásico musical animado ganador de un Oscar, la película en acción real de Disney LA SIRENITA es la querida historia de Ariel (Halle Bailey), una sirena joven y apasionada con ansias de aventuras. Ella es la más joven y rebelde de las hijas del rey Tritón (Javier Bardem), y sueña con descubrir el mundo más allá del…

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#Ahsoka #Animales de cerca con Bertie Gregory #Bunk&039;d #Die Drei #Disney Todo Igual o no #El maravilloso mundo de las canciones #Firebuds #La Maravillosa Pastelería de Alicia #La música está servida #Lang Lang interpreta Disney #Los vecinos Green #Marvel Studios Unidos #Mi música mi tierra #Releyendo Mafalda #Spidey y sus sorprendentes amigos #Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano #Supergatitos #Yo Soy Groot

[ramascreen]

New Clip Fin Whales From Disney+ Original Series ‘EPIC ADVENTURES WITH BERTIE GREGORY’

New Clip Fin Whales From Disney+ Original Series ‘EPIC ADVENTURES WITH BERTIE GREGORY’

Today, Disney+ shared this clip showing hundreds of fin whales in the largest feeding aggregation ever filmed as part of the upcoming Disney+ Original series from National Geographic, “Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory.” The filming of the second largest whales on the planet, some growing up to 90 feet long, took place in the Drake Passage off the tip of the Antarctica Peninsula. To capture the…

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#Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory

[mageless]

Not to put two bad bitches against each other but ah,

#house md #dr house #jeeves and wooster #Bertie Wooster

[mercury-morganite]

Hot take: Bertie Wooster is more attractive than Gregory House.

#hugh laurie

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Ocean showdown: On a frigid day with thick falling snow, Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory traveled cross the Drake Passage to film a rare Antarctic orca population known for hunting seals by creating waves that knock the marine mammals off pieces of ice.

Instead, the crew ended up documenting something unexpected: two humpback whales (pictured above, right) showed up to disrupt the hunt by the orca predators (above, left).

#bertie gregory #videographer #video #national geographic #ocean #marine #drake passage #orca #whale #animal #humpback whale #nature

[xlntwtch2]

4/13/24 ... baby penguins on video...

drone footage from national geographic

#video #penguins in the wild

[starlightseraph]

i analyse characters to such an absurd extent that i come up with things that the writers/creators/cast probably never even considered.

and guess what. i’m right.

#house md #doctor who #the x files #jeeves and wooster #hilson #tenrose #twissy #msr #jooster #hugh laurie #gregory house #robert sean leonard #rsl #james wilson #hate crimes md #christopher eccleston #david tennant #matt smith #peter capaldi #michelle gomez #x files #txf #gillian anderson #dana scully #david duchovny #fox mulder #bertie wooster #stephen fry #reginald jeeves

[privatehousesanatomy]

get you a man who can go from "what-ho jeeves!" to "i put you on uppers and you still yawned."

#hugh laurie #greg house #house md #hatecrimes md #gregory house #bertie wooster #jeeves and wooster

[whereifindsanity]

Whales Making Waves by Bertie Gregory