#Arctic Wildlife

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Common arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus lagopus) Dovrefjell National Park, Norway

Photos © Andy Trowbridge

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Musk Ox

Rune Gudmundsen, National Geographic, Your Shot

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Via The Guardian - “I was sent the book and my agents thought it wouldn’t necessarily be in my wheelhouse,” Colin admits. “But within 50 pages I knew I wanted to make it. To some people it’s bleak and violent, but I love that about it. It seems to say something very important about what drives us as human beings, so it made sense for me, somehow. It tuned into everything else I’ve done.”

“I’ve never played a character with so little compunction or apology or who does things this despicable,” says Colin of a figure who is as barbaric to his fellow man as he is to animals.

“I ate a lot and lifted some heavy weights. I looked at Victorian boxers and dockers, trying to get the belly and the muscle. It was not done under the supervision of medical professionals at all and was really ill advised.”

The day they said: ‘We’re heading back to open water,’ I’ll never forget the relief I felt that nobody died.”

The cast and crew took on the polar plunge, by jumping into the Arctic waters in their pants. There was a lot of swearing! 🤬

I think Henry Drax is the darkest role Colin Farrell has played. It’s quite gruesome to watch. I also think Stephen Graham is an incredible actor (Line of Duty, Gangs of New York).

At BFI, Colin said: “It was one of two times in my life where you couldn’t take off the costume, I couldn’t really step away from the character. It was always with me.”

“We were telling a very ugly story in a very beautiful place,” he added. “There was something in that contrast or contradiction that was very powerful.”

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The Sad Truth about Polar Bears

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Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Svalbard, Norway

Photo © Ole Jorgen Liodden

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[kattenvrouw]

oh what a world i dont want to leave

all kinds of magic all around us its hard to believe

thank God its not too good to be true ;-;

oh what a world~

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“I've seen things that you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” This kind of a representation of a scene I had on a dream...

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The Danish explorers who went to Antarctica must have been super fucking confused when they saw a bird from their home country down on the complete opposite pole. "Hey Gregor doesn't this look a lot like those arctic terns we see at home?" “Wait a fucking second..”

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I caught u dis fish bcs I love u

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Arctic Tern flies the Greatest Migration

With the spring migration now underway we should pause to consider the incredible migration of the Arctic Tern.

[Photo by Kirk Rogers, USF&WS]

The Arctic Tern nests across the Canadian arctic and Alaska, building nests on the ground in colonies. But in the fall they head east, crossing the north Atlantic to Europe, and then flying south along the continent of Africa and across the Southern Ocean to spend the rest of the year in (wait for it) the Antarctic!

You heard correctly; this small, graceful bird, which is smaller and weighs less than the gulls you see fighting over French fries at the local fast-food parking lot, nests in the north polar region and winters in the south polar region.

That's a round-trip migration of 40,000 km (25,000 miles). Every year!

[Photo by Donna Dewhurst, USF&WS]

It helps that they are longer lived than most gulls or other tern species; the oldest recorded individual was 34 years old.