It turns out I can do better than that. For some reason known only to someone in Hobart, the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian government's environment department has, since 2008, run a regularly updating video of its krill aquarium. Yes, every 15 minutes, you can see a new short video of krill being krill.
There might be odder webcams of bits of nature in captivity out there, but this one would have to rank pretty high in the peculiar stakes.
They do have big eyes, by the way.
Update: for those readers who can't be bothered clicking on the link, here's a shot of what they were up to 10 minutes ago:
Gee. It seems not very high above the high water mark, in a ocean known for rough weather, doesn't it? If you look at the 48 hour time lapse video they make from the webcam, it looks even worse.
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