Mother Nature

Mother Nature

Earth Watch tonight 8.30 – 9.30 Australia, turn off your lights for 1 hour :)

before photoshop colouring it was just a pencil sketch as above


Mother Nature

a pencil drawing on paper
i’ve coloured this in photoshop

this drawing came about while I was holidaying on an island off the Qld coast recently, I was there when the oil spill happened, and a cyclone threatened to disturb our lovely rest….but as it happened, we were not disturbed by either of these events, and were lucky enough to connect with dolphins each and every day, this is from my latest “Connection” series, it’s about our connection with creation and every living thing, especially the beautiful dolphins of Tangalooma..

I hand fed the dolphins and Tinkerbell, a mother dolphin gave me what i like to call 5 dolphin kisses to the hand. I also encountered the other dolphins called Echo, the 2 baby dolphins, one named Phoenix and it was a really special time for me.

Dolphin facts I learned at Tangalooma:

. Baby dolphins have hair and whiskers…they have a hairy growth on their fluke/tail and they have whiskers on their face, so that their mother knows when they are going to suckle…it tickles her and she can get into the right position

. The pack of dolphins at Tangalooma have given many gifts of fish and
things like eels to their feeders and the staff their, which are in a glass display case with the various stories

. The baby dolphins ‘play’ with puffer fish…they annoy the puffers til they PUFF and then toss them to and fro on the surface like they are ping pong balls

. Dolphins chase their prey upside down

. Many dolphins get entangled in fishing line and makes them unable to feed properly, as it gets around their fluke and around their mouths….they eventually die if they don’t receive intervention

. The males get into packs and they fight for dominance, the stress of this shortens their lifespan, so the females actually live longer

. A baby dolphin suckles for the first 18 months and does not eat anything while suckling…during that time the juvenile dolphin learns to hunt, they are not born with these skills, they are learned.

. A baby dolphin suckles approximately every 10 minutes

. Other dolphins in the pack protect the baby dolphins while the mother dolphin feeds, etc

. Dolphins are mammals and share many similarities with humans….
they can see well above and below the water :)

. At Monkey Mia in Western Australia where they also feed wild dolphins, only the male dolphins come in to feed now, they have bullied the female dolphins so that they don’t come in to shore anymore….

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