Recent headline of the San Francisco Chronicle. Female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spiderweb of crab traps and line weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, tail, torso and a line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them.
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
斯洛維尼亞的一位攝影師 Matej Peljhan 替患有肌肉萎縮症的12歲小男孩 Luka 拍攝沙龍照，讓他實現了他一生都不可能成真的夢想！Luka因患病而無法正常活動，他夢想過有一天能夠看到自己的照片，內容呈現出他也能像一般男孩一樣正常活動。Matej 貼心地為他搭設了一個名為「小王子的夢想」的佈景，讓Luka能夠躺在上面，使用旁邊裝設的各種輔助器具，做出灌籃和游泳的動作！在這些令人動容的照片中，Luka的臉上洋溢著內心無比的喜悅及感動。
On dit d'un mauvais film que c'est " un navet "
法文我們說一場不好的電影叫 一個蕪菁
On dit d'une musique mauvaise ou sans intérêt que c'est de la soupe.
我們說一個不好的音樂 或沒有意思 :湯
Ex : Ce film, quel navet ! Même la musique c'est de la soupe !
例句 : 這電影是多麼蕪菁! 如同音樂是湯!
( Ce film est vraiment mauvais ! Même la musique est mauvaise ! )
意指這電影真爛 ! 如同音樂一樣爛 !
A BBC/National Geographic film crew have recorded rare footage of humpback whales intervening in a killer whale hunt.
Gray whales migrating along the coast of California, US are often targeted by orcas.
One mother and calf's journey was being filmed for the BBC series Planet Earth Live when the third party became involved in the drama.
Onlookers suggest they were deliberately disrupting the hunt.
"To be honest we weren't expecting to see anything - it was our very first day out on the boat," said Victoria Bromley, a researcher with the crew that witnessed the scene.
"It was a massive stroke of luck when we received the call about the attack."
Working from a whale-watching boat from Monterey Bay Whale Watch, the team set up to film in an area known for sightings of gray whales.
Every year female gray whales travel north from the birthing waters off the coast of Mexico to the nutrient rich waters of the Bering Sea with their calves.
Along the route, they are targeted by orcas, which co-ordinate their attacks - aiming to separate the defenceless young from their mothers.
To minimise their risk from the predators, gray whales swim in relatively shallow water but at Monterey Bay the whales must swim over the Monterey Canyon that in places can reach two miles deep.
The film crew arrived at the scene of the hunt following a tip off call from a sister boat.
Using a camera mounted on the boat, Ms Bromley told BBC Nature: "we saw a lot of grey shapes in the water and quickly realised they were humpbacks."
According to the crew the additional whales were not just observers of the hunt but were actively involved.
Humpback whales are known for their impressive range of calls, including a high-pitched "trumpeting" noise made when they are agitated.
The humpbacks at Monterey Bay were trumpeting, diving and slapping their pectoral fins against the water.
"It didn't seem at all like they were confused… they were definitely there with a purpose," said Ms Bromley.
Shortly after the crew arrived the orca successfully caught their prey. The mother whale fled the scene but the humpbacks remained.
"I have never seen anything like this before," said marine biologist Alisa Schulman-Janiger who accompanied the filmmakers.
Mrs Schulman-Janiger has studied California killer whales since 1984 and is currently the director of the American Cetacean Society/Los Angeles Chapter's Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project.
After the attack, two humpback whales moved into the area where the calf was last seen alive. They continued to make trumpeting calls, rolled in the water and slashed their tails aggressively at killer whales that came near.
According to Mrs Schulman-Janiger the whole encounter lasted seven hours.
"An extraordinary number of humpback whales had appeared "overnight", feeding within a five mile area: about 100 humpback whales - converging on an abundance of krill that had grown concentrated after two days of very strong winds," she explained.
"The whales [we watched] should have been off feeding: instead, they deliberately stayed in our area, loudly announcing their presence."
The researchers have sent photographs of the humpback whales to a research centre for identification against the North Pacific humpback whale catalogue.
"Female humpback whales would be expected to react much more strongly to the protection of a youngster," said Mrs Schulman-Janiger.
"This was not a curious approach by these humpback whales: they seemed truly distressed."
