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121) Zoology: Understanding the Animal World: Episode 16,Carnivore Mammals: Feline, Canine, and Ursine
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Turn now from herbivores to carnivores like lions, tigers, bears, wolves, cats, and dogs. Among the many insights you’ll learn are the different ways carnivores evolved to walk and capture prey, as well as their evolutionary history, which stretches back to tree-dwelling animals that lived 50 and 60 million years ago.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Reptiles combine primitive, advanced, generalized, and specialized adaptations for life on earth. First, examine the characteristics reptiles share with birds. Then, examine fascinating reptilian adaptations like parthenogenesis and temperature-dependent sex determination. Finally, learn ways you can help reptiles like snakes, turtles, lizards, and crocodilians survive.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
There are more than 1 million species of insects on our planet. That's over half of all known extant species. In this episode, explore adaptations of some of the most important insects on our planet, including ants, bees, and butterflies. Also, focus on key conservation issues like colony collapse and pollinator conservation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marine invertebrates are some of the most economically important animals on the planet. Learn more about them in this episode on invertebrate “good guys” including mollusks (the largest phylum of marine animals), blue crabs, the American lobster, and corals (which surpass tropical rainforests in their levels of biodiversity).
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What are the real effects of mosquitos, biting flies, and internal parasites on humans? Why are they so important to our planet? What makes mosquitos the deadliest animals on Earth? How do zoologists classify the parasites that infect humans? What happens in a zoo’s veterinary pathology department?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
About 350 million years ago, large amphibians were Earth’s most abundant species. Now, their future may be in jeopardy. Join Dr. Moore and a biologist from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for an eye-opening episode on amphibian biology and diversity and the ways we can help salamanders, frogs, and other species thrive.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Zoologists study animal intelligence using a combination of ethology, psychology, and neuroscience. In this episode, look at the behavior of different animals (the use of tools by animals as diverse as otters and elephants, social learning in primates and dolphins, the famous story of a “counting” horse) to determine whether or not animals think.
128) Snow Monkeys
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the frigid valleys of Japan’s Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a complex society of rank and privilege where each knows their place. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. But one little monkey, innocently unaware of his own lowly social rank, reaches out to this lonely leader, forming a bond with him that manages over time to warm his less than sunny disposition....
129) Nature
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As one of the most watched documentary film series on public television, Nature delivers the best in original natural history films to audiences nationwide. Nature is celebrating its 35th Season in Fall 2016...Over the years, Nature has brought the beauty and wonder of the natural world into American homes, becoming in the process the benchmark of natural history programs on American television. The series has won more than 700 honors from the television...
130) The Dog Doc
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A pioneer of integrative medicine, Dr. Marty Goldstein attracts four-legged patients from around the world, providing holistic treatments for animals after other vets have given up hope.
131) Buck
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A Sundance award-winning film, documenting the heartwarming triumphs of real life "horse whisperer" & cowboy Buck Brannaman & his transformative approach to horse training.
Publisher
Label Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This curious doco investigates the story of Celebrity chimp COBBY, star of the short lived, little known 60s children's TV series Cobby's Hobbies, made in Kansas City. Australian Filmmaker Donna McRae watched the series as child and here she explores her own personal obsession with COBBY - the chimp himself and the TV show - pieceing together an often bizarrre story of an animal stolen from his natural habitat to work on TV before being retired into...
133) Cow
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold’s first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.
134) Canadian Wilds
Publisher
Animalogic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Canada is home to some of the most amazing species on the planet. In Ontario’s boreal forest, we come up close and personal with one of the largest terrestrial animals in the world, the moose. Up in Churchill, Manitoba you’ll meet the king of the bears, the Polar Bear. And finally, out west, come face to face with the funniest little rodents you’ll ever see, the Marmots.
136) Rivers
Publisher
Animalogic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rivers, swamps and coastlines are home to some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet. From the ancient, and weird, Gharial, to the turtles with a killer bite, to the humongous crocodiles, and the graceful kingfisher, these species are kings and queens these diverse habitats.
137) NOVA: Bird Brain
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Join NOVA to witness the brainpower of birds. Long mocked as empty-headed, our feathered friends hide surprisingly acute intelligence. But how smart are they? Watch as scientists test avian aptitude and challenge our basic notions of intelligence.
138) Pest Patrol
Publisher
Animalogic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Here at Animalogic we love every species of animal on the planet. But these insects sure make that difficult. These are the creepies, the crawliest, the ones that will make you shudder, nature’s worst pests.
139) Ocean Souls
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An emotive documentary about cetaceans. OCEAN SOULS highlights new science and discovers that there is an intelligence beneath the waves that closely mirrors our own. Join us as we explore the remarkable lives of these magnificent ocean souls.
140) The Animals Film
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Documentary about the abuse of animals in factory farming, sport and research. Made over a period of two years in Britain and the U.S., includes interviews, clandestinely shot footage of stag hunting and pharmaceutical research, and rare material of the military use of animals for training, weapons testing and nuclear research.
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