more rock news

odditycollector:

odditycollector:

Trucks frolic next to an uninterested excavator.

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A party of excavators refresh themselves at a watering hole.

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An excavator snaps up a large boulder in its powerful jaws.

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Another excavator finds a rock underwater, but it puts up a fight.

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Tourists view excavators up close during a controversial boat tour through their habitat.

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Helicopters hide their extra rocks (the clumps of white) in hillside crevices, safely out of the reach of the ground vehicles roaming nearby.

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This team of experts is examining truck leavings for clues to their behaviour.

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A helicopter catches and carries away a person, likely mistaking them for a rock. Luckily, as is usual in these cases, they were later recovered unharmed… although a fair distance away from where they started.

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nightpool reblogged your post “more rock news”

#these are some A+ captions #anyway looks like the reintroduction program is going great 

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Indeed! it’s really interesting how the reintroduction of native fauna can be a long term solution to soil erosion (which ofc had caused the near disaster @ oroville). [cit]

(via seismogenic)