WILD: Pink frogmouths can use their “leg-like” fins for walking around on the sea floor! 🐟
This special fish was spotted during Oceana's expedition to the Canary Islands in 2014, a trip to learn more about seamounts & the astounding biodiversity in the area.
The leaf sheep is one of few animals that can perform photosynthesis! 🐑🌿
This little sea slug sucks up chloroplasts from algae in a process called kleptoplasty. This provides nutrition as well as giving the leaf sheep its green color.💚☀️
Learn more: oceana.ly/4gmb08r
🎉 A milestone worth celebrating: Our campaign to fight for less plastic pollution in Brazil has just reached 100,000 signatures!
It’s a powerful show of support for a plastic-free future. Now, Brazil’s Federal Senate must listen and act!
@OceanaBrasil
Today, on #InternationalWhaleSharkDay, we celebrate the world’s largest fish! 🐋🦈
Despite growing to lengths approaching 65 feet, whale sharks are filter feeders, dining on plankton and other tiny organisms.
Learn more: oceana.ly/4gzrh8C
Chinstrap penguins have a LOT to say. 🐧📣
From head-waving and bowing to pointing and charging, penguins use complex behaviors to communicate.
And when it comes to courtship, male chinstraps really know how to make a scene: they pump their chests, stretch their heads skyward
