Les couleurs éclatantes, presque psychédéliques, des poissons de récif sont souvent ce qui captive en premier les plongeurs. Mais d’un point de vue évolutif, pourquoi ces petits animaux — souvent des proies — arborent-ils des teintes si vives au lieu de se fondre dans leur environnement pour échapper aux prédateurs ?
IT IS DAY FIVE OF THE VOYAGE, and our liveaboard has finally finished the overnight crossing south from the warm waters of Darwin and Wolf islands to Cape Douglas, Isla Fernandina. Although we don’t travel a great distance …
IT IS DAY FIVE OF THE VOYAGE, and our liveaboard has finally finished the overnight crossing south from the warm waters of Darwin and Wolf islands to Cape Douglas, Isla Fernandina. Although we don’t travel a great distance …
I WAS HOOKED THE FIRST TIME I saw a southern sea otter bobbing in the surf off the coast of California’s Big Sur. I didn’t know then that I would be as spellbound by these rare creatures decades later as I was at that very first sighting.
L'un des plus grands symboles de la vie sauvage dans le règne animal, les manchots se font aimer par leurs pitreries et nous impressionnent en s'épanouissant dans des environnements incroyablement hostiles.
AN EDIBLE, SLOW-MOVING ANIMAL that lives in clear, shallow waters doesn’t have a high chance of survival these days. Conchs, specifically queen conchs, used to be widespread throughout the Florida Keys and the Caribbean.
PARTAGER L'ESPACE AVEC DES ANIMAUX SAUVAGES dans la nature est l'un des plus beaux cadeaux que la vie puisse offrir. Vous avez peut-être croisé le regard d'un orang-outan à Bornéo ou observé un poisson-clown s'occuper délicatement de ses œufs sur un récif. Vous avez peut-être aperçu une armée de fourmis coupeuses de feuilles qui ramenaient des bouts de plantes à leur colonie ou regardé par-dessus la proue d'un bateau pour croiser le regard d'un dauphin.
ASK DIVERS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST what makes for a great dive, and most will agree that a wolf-eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) is involved. There is something about the face of an adult wolf-eel staring at you from its den that turns an ordinary dive into a great one. The specific conditions don’t matter. Cold temperatures, terrible visibility, or strong currents are easy to forget when a wolfie — as we call them locally — appears.
It is early June, the onset of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and an army has just reached its destination. It has marched from the ocean’s depths into the shallows, amassing among the pilings at Blairgowrie Pier in Port Phillip Bay, south of Melbourne, Australia.
As I drove west past Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on my way to a photo shoot, I watched in disbelief as the temperature gauge in my vehicle rose from 64°F (18°C) to 113°F (45°C). I thought something was wrong with my gauge, but a local radio station reported the same temperature. British Columbia had record-high temperatures throughout the province that week in June 2021.
