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An Agouti Eating Pulp of the Dipteryx panamanensis Seed Coat

April 14, 2018 at 2:27 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video

Agoutis are rodents exclusive to forested and wooded lands of the American tropics. Their habitats include rainforests and savannas. Some species have even adapted to live in cultivated fields. They are active during daytime. At night they hide in hollow tree trunks or in burrows among roots. Here in this short observation recorded at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Barro Colorado Island, Panama you can see an agouti feeding on the outer pulp of the one of the […]

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7 Ways Blockchain Can Stop Climate Change & Save The Environment – WEF (2017)

April 13, 2018 at 3:18 pm / Global Patterns, Human Nature, Video

This World Economic Forum video outlines many uses of blockchain technology for environmental protection. The system created can also protect many local tibal communities vulnerable to resource extraction. From Conquistadors to robber barons to oil and gas companies natural resources of tropical regions have been unsustainably harvested and exploited. It doesn’t have to be this way. We must prevent this. Take for instance the Earth Bank of Codes initiative. This ambitious collaborative aims to assign every piece of biological data […]

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The Living Forest: The Amazonian Tribespeople Who Sailed Down the Seine | Guardian Docs

April 13, 2018 at 2:56 pm / Human Nature, Video

The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the ‘living forest’, where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people were at the Conference of Parties Paris COP21 climate conference to project their voices to the World. From Conquistadors to robber barons to oil and gas companies natural resources of tropical regions have been unsustainably harvested and exploited. […]

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My Father’s Tools – Heather Condo (2017)

April 12, 2018 at 10:29 am / Human Nature, Video

As a pre-pottery Human technology basketmaking and clothing has been an important part of the ancestral Human life style. The earliest archaeological evidence for weaving comes from the Eurasian Paleolithic. The earliest evidence for basketry comes from sites in Israel dated back to 23,000 years before present. Mastering use of plant fibers for weaving enabled Humans to broaden their resource utilization space including creative design of fish traps. Here in this meditative short by filmmaker Heather Condo, we see Stephen […]

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Priceless Blaschka Glass Models | Natural History Museum (2012)

March 26, 2018 at 7:24 am / Natural history, Video

The delicate glass artworks of sea creatures crafted by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka were made between 1866 to 1889. Glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolph Blaschka (1857-1939), provide a rich insight into the scientific appetite of the late Victorians in many disciplines of biology including botany as well as invertebrate zoology. Together they solved a rather difficult display obstacle faced by many natural history museums. Many botanical and zoological specimens loose their original qualities when preserved […]

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Harvard Restores the Famed Collection of Blaschka Glass Plant Models – Ned Brown (2016)

March 25, 2018 at 9:18 pm / Natural history, Video

Glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolph Blaschka (1857-1939), provide a rich insight into the scientific appetite of the late Victorians in many disciplines of biology including botany as well as invertebrate zoology. Together they solved a rather difficult display obstacle faced by many natural history museums. Many botanical and zoological specimens loose their original qualities when preserved in herbariums and collection facilities. For outreach purposes especially in museums displays of such specimens are not appealing to their visitors. […]

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First Footage of Deep-sea Angler Fish Mating – Kirsten & Joachim Jakobsen / Science (2018)

March 22, 2018 at 1:44 pm / Evolution, Natural history, Short Observations, Video

A video recording of a female anglerfish attached to her mate created a wave of excitement among marine biologists. Anglerfish have a quite striking look for most people. This deep-sea adapted fish is well known by the public with their scary huge teeth and a light emitting lure. There are about 160 species of anglerfish worldwide. Most of what we know about these fishes have almost invariably came from dead specimens. Nobody has ever observed these animals in their natural […]

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Climate Science in Action – Earth Focus / Link TV (2014)

March 17, 2018 at 8:12 am / Ecological Documentaries, Global Patterns, Video

We have a very dynamic planet. Throughout it’s geological evolution ice sheets grew and shrunk many times. This process still continues each year through a number of rather complex interactions between land, atmosphere and ocean. Climate science is working hard to measure, document and understand these interactions both on land and from orbit. Satellite missions launched in 1990s produced some very informative estimates about polar regions. Scientists are now collaborating to detail these observations from land measuring the mass balance […]

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How Copper Engravings are Done – Eric Meier (2009)

March 9, 2018 at 2:27 pm / Natural history, Technical Notes, Video

Natural History largely depended on artists before the invention of photography. Some of the most successful scientific expeditions such as the Voyage of the Endeavor by Captain James Cook had artists on board that would sketch and draw. These drawings would later be masterfully retraced onto copper plates for reproduction in a dedicated studio that required a lot of resources beyond the capacity of a ship. The process was extremely labor intensive and slow but the results were impressive for […]

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Hungry Polar Bear Ambushes Seal | The Hunt | BBC Earth (2017)

March 9, 2018 at 10:55 am / BBC documentaries, Ecological Documentaries, Evolution, Natural history, Short Observations, Video

Being a predator is very difficult. The “one in twenty” success rate is almost a universal rule of thumb to describe predator hunting efficiency. Prey defines the terms of engagement. Predator has to play catch up and therefore has to be stronger, faster more agile and perhaps more clever in planning a successful attack. We know this relationship from studies that have exquisitely measured predator-prey related physical parameters in Cheetahs and Lions hunting Impalas and Zebras. Connections between apex predators […]

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David Attenborough: Joseph Banks – Endeavor / Philip Stevens (2014)

March 9, 2018 at 9:41 am / Ecological Documentaries, Evolution, Natural history, Video

The year 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the legendary first voyage of Captain James Cook on board the collier frigate ship Endeavor. The voyage was a first in that science didn’t loose against the call of the adventure like many others did. The Endeavor established the fundamentals of scientific research on a vessel and set the pace for many other long distance expeditions including the voyage Darwin took on board the Beagle. Endeavor earned its place in history as […]

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Anatomy of a Hunt: Speed, Strategy and Survival / Nature (2018)

March 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Evolution, Natural history, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

As predators chase down their prey on the open savanna it’s a race for survival. Lions and cheetahs are some of the most athletic animals on the planet but strength and speed aren’t everything. By precisely measuring the movements of predators and prey during hunts, researchers have now modeled the optimum strategy of both hunter and hunted, unpacking the subtle details of this evolutionary arms race. During a typical run, a Cheetah can leap 25 feet on a single stride […]

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Eagle Cam from Southwest Florida – Ozzie and Harriet

March 2, 2018 at 8:41 am / Natural history, Video, webcams

Camera-2 360 degree view: Wecome to the breeding season 2020! A pair of bald eagles named Ozzie and Harriet have been coming to this nest located in Fort Myers, FL for the past 9 years. They nest early compared to other pairs between the months of October- April. In 2012 through private funding a camera was installed 6 feet above the nest. The nest sits on two branches of a slash pine tree approximately 60 feet from the ground and […]

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A Malayan Colugo and Her Baby in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore (2016)

February 13, 2018 at 9:28 pm / Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

This Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) carrying a baby was observed on November 25th 2016 in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore. The observation has been registered to iNaturalist database. No Malayan colugos have been successfully bred in captivity. Oldest known captive individual lived 17.5 years. Malayan colugos belong to the “skinwing” mammal order called Dermopterans. They are also known as Sunda flying lemurs. They are strictly arboreal, spending their time in the treetops of tropical rainforests entirely. The name “flying” is […]

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A Sunfleck Over a Sapling in Barro Colorado Island

January 19, 2018 at 10:25 am / Ecological Documentaries, Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video

Recorded during the dry season on Jan 26th 2017 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Barro Colorado Island, Panama. A short duration sunfleck passes over a sapling of Nectandra cissiflora (Lauraceae). Plants growing in the forest understory habitats can be exposed to fast microclimatic changes. Although light is essential for plants, sudden exposure to high light can be detrimental to shade adapted leaves. Sunflecks can be destructive for the photosystem II (PSII), a component of the photosynthetic apparatus […]

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