#canadian geographic

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Sleepy Fox in Newfoundland

Taken By Jacob Zamora

#jacob zamora #photographer #canadian geographic #fox #animal #mammal #wildlife #nature #silver fox

[animalsandanimals]

Chase Teron

Winner, Aquatic Life, Canadian Geographic Annual Wildlife Photography Competition 2023

A curious group of sea otters near Spring Island, off the western coast of Vancover Island.

#otters #canadian geographic #vancouver island #wildlife photography competitions

[abdulaziz2023]

قامت مجلة Canadian Geographic باختيار أفضل الصور وأكثر اللحظات إثارةً، والتي التقطتها عدسات المصورين لعام 2023.

#٢٠٢٣ #canadian geographic #تصوير فوتوغرافي

[amatsuki]

#canadian geographic

[pangur-and-grim]

a bit ago I illustrated an article in The Walrus, and here's the full process for anyone interested!

it was about feral peacocks that got dumped in this small town and started breeding. there were two dumping events - the first was a mom and her chick (who went on to inbreed), and the other was three juveniles.

my first two ideas showed how the peacocks disrupted the town (perching in flower pots and blocking traffic), the next showed how one of the peacocks got eaten by a lynx, and the last two were family trees. The Walrus went with the ‘angelic’ tree, with Pearl the peacock surrounded by a string of pearls.

#currently I'm working on an illustration for Canadian Geographic. I'll do a similar breakdown once that's done & public 👍

[inspectorseb]

My mind trying to decide which pwhl team to be my fav;

Toronto: I love women

Montréal: I love women

Ottawa: I love women

New York: I love women

Boston: I love women

Minnesota: I love women

#montreal is giving me pou and stacey #ottawa is giving me emerance #toronto is giving me nurse maltais and spooner #for new york i’m an isles fan #i’m loving minnesota’s vibes #and boston has hilary knight (even tho i’m canadian) #i have no geographical connection or loyalties so i’m struggling #pwhl #pwhl toronto #pwhl montreal #pwhl new york #pwhl boston #pwhl minnesota #pwhl ottawa

[jfishburnartworks]

Zen

#naturelovers #nature #nature photo #nature photography #nikon #nikoncanada #nikon photography #nikon d850 #squirrels #squirrel #cute #adorable #animal #animals #wild #wildlife #wildlife photography #photos #photo #photography #photographer #photo of the day #photo of the week #canadian photo #canadian photographer #canadian photography #saskatchewan photography #saskatchewan photo #natural #national geographic

[kagrenacs]

Read Gender Failure by Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon, absolutely fantastic

#I wish I had read the book sooner! #Rae Spoon is from the Canadian prairies like me. And Ivan was the name of my grandfather who I model my masculinity after #I enjoyed the snippets of songs and discussion of how queer identities interact with Canadian cowboy culture #my grandfather was very much a cowboy/outdoors man and being little and visiting him in the mountains inspired me to become a geographer #I loved the bit about prairie grass being compared to gender identity as well. how something that doesn’t seem complex has so much nuance

[femmeidiot]

just described Vancouver as being in the “pacific southwest of Canada”

#I mean I’m not wrong #idk how Canadians feel but I was trying to explain it to someone in class with American geographical references #I was like it’s kind of in the Pacific Northwest but actually like the pacific southwest of Canada

[m00nblune]

9/11 birthdays are rlly something else in that I remember this one time my sister told me when she was in kindergarten her teacher said smth like “today is a very important day, I don’t expect any of you to know this but does anyone know the reason?” And she raised her hand and excitedly said “It’s my sister’s birthday!!”

#9/11 #9/11 birthday #rambling #I’m not even American so that’s interesting #well #I’m Canadian though which is still p close geographically and history-wise #hopefully this isn’t tone deaf #it really was a tragic loss of life #and also tragic how ppl still today are the target of racism bc of it #just thought I’d share a funny awkward story

[natural-world]

Peyto Lake, Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies

Photo: Travel Alberta

Source: National Geographic

#canada #banff #peyto lake #national geographic #canadian rockies #nature

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Two Ravens showing signs of affection for one another.

Taken By Kevin Murray

#kevin murray #photographer #raven #bird photography #nature #wildlife #canada #canadian geographic

[hangingfire]

Well this warms my frozen little heart. That's an award that means more than a dozen Emmys.

#the terror amc #dave kajganich #royal canadian geographical society #louie kamookak medal

[asymmetryestablished]

Basic question. I wanna know what’s your favorite place in the world and why.

ohhhh I’m so bad at picking favourites. simple question, complicated answer. but

there’s this geographical region called the Canadian Shield. according to britannica.com, it’s shaped like this:

and is “the largest mass of exposed Precambrian rock on the face of Earth” (source).

basically: it’s bedrock, breaching the surface of the earth like a pod of enormous whales. millennia ago, in some places at least, it used to be mountains; now, they’re worn down, most of their tops eroded away. what’s left is these massive swells of bedrock that break through the dirt, and I can’t quite explain what I love so much about it but there’s something so poetic about it. it feels old, when you stand on it, and massive. it absolutely dwarfs you.

I’m not sure I can explain it any better, so here’s a photo I took on the northern shores of Lake Superior early this fall. I love this land with all my heart.

#thank you for the lovely ask! #I love canada on a geographical level #political... ehhh we’ve got work to do #but I love the land I live in. so damn much #quoth nsd #asked and answered #canadian shield #canadian geography #canada #geography

[fishthegenderwitch-lurking]

I wonder how much of my dash would disappear if I filtered out republican

My god it'd be nice to know what's happening in my own country; we're constantly swallowed by amerikkkan news

#canadian #we're so close geographically #but by gum they are so loud #it's like trying to talk to someone in the same room as you #but there's a bigot with a megaphone screaming into your window

[xtruss]

Even as a drone hovered above to get this shot, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr., calls Scar never stirred in this bed of fireweed. Gregus says he named many of the bears in hopes it would help people relate to them as individuals needing protection.

Snoozing in Flower Beds? Behold the Bears of Summer

A photographer spends two months in the Canadian Arctic and reveals a softer side of the world’s largest terrestrial predator.

— By Jason Bittel | Photographs By Martin Gregus, Jr. | Published August 9, 2022

“You always see polar bears on ice and snow,” says photographer Martin Gregus, Jr. “But it’s not like they stop living in the summertime.” Determined to reveal this less depicted angle on the bears, he constructed a field station on the back of a small boat and spent 33 days north of Churchill, Manitoba, in the summers of 2020 and 2021.

The bears that Gregus calls Betty and Veronica wrestled over this boulder for nearly an hour before he caught them forming the shape of a heart. The two seemed inseparable, often playing and hunting together.

Two large cubs appear to guard their mother while a male passes by, just out of the frame. For Gregus, the image recalls Cerberus, the multiheaded dog of Greek mythology.

Aurora and her cub, Beans, hunker down as a storm approaches. Thunder and lightning have recently become more frequent in this region as a result of climate change, Gregus says. Every time the sky cracked, the bears started shaking, like dogs hearing fireworks.

Polar bears spend so much time in the water that many scientists consider them to be marine mammals. In some cases, they’ve been recorded swimming for more than a week straight and clocking over 400 miles. To get underwater images like this one of a polar bear moving from melting sea ice onto dry land, Gregus developed camera rigs and techniques that allowed him to get close to the animals without being seen by them.

The more Gregus studied the bears, the more he learned of their personalities. There was the persistent cub he named Hercules. He lost a leg yet managed to survive his first two summers. An enormous female, Wanda, seemed to be feared by other bears but spent her days doing yoga-like stretches in the fireweed. Another female, Wilma, appeared to be so comfortable with Gregus that she’d nurse her cubs, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, close enough for him to hear their purring. Gregus also witnessed behaviors he’d rarely seen before, such as bears grazing on plants and hunting tern chicks by chasing them into the surf. For now, actions like those may be helping this polar bear population cope with the effects of climate change—but others elsewhere are starving.

“All of these pictures show bears that are fat, healthy, and playful,” Gregus says. So although from a global perspective everything may be going wrong for polar bears, “obviously something’s going right here.”

“We’d look around and say, ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Because if she was there, we didn’t have to worry about any other bears,” says Gregus, of the large but laid-back female.

Cubs weigh just one pound at birth, but a diet of milk that is extremely rich in fat helps them bulk up quickly. Each cub will nurse for at least 20 months, and they usually stay by their mother’s side for two years.

In this part of the Arctic, everything’s flat, Gregus says. That means even a small boulder can provide a better view—if a bear hasn’t succumbed to sleep, that is. The bears, including Veronica (shown), often stood on this rock, scouring the area for seals to eat or bears to avoid. Gregus hopes to return to this coast, where he sees the bears “thriving and adapting to the environment.” But he knows that in most of their range, polar bears are suffering from the warming temperatures.

#The National Geographic #Jason Bittel #Photographs By Martin Gregus Jr. #Manitoba #Canadian Arctic #Bears’ Snoosing