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Wildlife: ‘Geese Migration’ Lake Byron, South Dakota
“Sunday Morning” takes us to Lake Byron in South Dakota, where ’tis the season for geese to migrate South.
Videographer: Kevin Kjergaard.
Wildlife: The ‘Extreme Biology’ Of Hummingbirds
The hummingbird is the smallest bird on the planet, with one species measuring just five centimeters! But inside their tiny bodies are huge brains and hearts – the largest in the avian kingdom relative to body size.
Those brains and hearts are used to power an astonishing metabolism, incredibly strong flight muscles for their high-speed wings, and a formidable intelligence that allows them to remember where to find the sweetest flowers. Dive into the extraordinary world of these aerial acrobats through ultra high-speed HD cameras and cutting-edge remote systems – what you’ll learn may well surprise you!
Wildlife: ‘Return Of The Reds’ – Rewilding Red Squirrels Into Scotland
Red squirrels are receiving a helping hand in reclaiming lost ground. A partnership between Trees For Life and The Woodland Trust is returning red squirrels to Ledmore and Migdale woods in Sutherland.
Wildlife: Epic Migration Of Reindeer In Lapland
Witness the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of reindeer in Lapland.
Wildlife: The Kangaroos And Wallabies Of Maria Island, Tasmania (Video)
Red Kangaroos are hulks – and their family is nothing to sneeze at. Don’t mess with the roo crew.
The red kangaroo or red giant kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial.
A wallaby is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and other countries.
Maria Island, is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 115.5-square-kilometre island is contained within the Maria Island National Park, which includes a marine area of 18.78 square kilometres off the island’s northwest coast.
Wildlife Video: ’24 Hours On Earth’ – In One Image
“Nature reveals itself to us in unique ways, if we stop and look at the world through a window of time,” says photographer Stephen Wilkes. Using a special photographic technique that reveals how a scene changes from day to night in a single image,
Wilkes exposes the Earth’s beautiful complexity and the impacts of climate change — from the disruption of flamingo migrations in Africa to the threat of melting ice — with unprecedented force. This performance was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020.
(Watch the full event here: https://youtu.be/5dVcn8NjbwY.)
Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world.
Underwater Wildlife: How Seals’ Whiskers Help Them Hunt Fish (Video)
Underwater cameraman and seal researcher Dr Ben Burville, explains how seals’ whiskers help them hunt underwater even in poor visual conditions.
Wildlife Video: ‘Fennec Foxes – Smallest Canines On Earth’ (Smithsonian)
Fennec foxes, native to the deserts of North Africa, are the smallest canines on the planet, weighing in at just over two pounds. This is a sharp contrast to their most distinctive feature: a pair of oversized ears.
Travel & Wildlife Video: India’s Endangered ‘One-Horned Rhinoceros’
The greater one-horned rhino is one of the most vulnerable animals in India – today, only 3,500 remain in the wild, spread out in isolated pockets from Nepal to the Myanmar border.
The Indian rhinoceros, also called the Indian rhino, greater one-horned rhinoceros or great Indian rhinoceros, is a rhinoceros species native to the Indian subcontinent. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as populations are fragmented and restricted to less than 20,000 km².