Oko (2005) by Marko Popadic.
Category Archives: Nature
Last year, Ultraslo trained a high speed Phantom Mira camera on a wasp nest without really knowing what the inhabitants were doing.
The sequence was shot at 4700 frames per second and played back at 30fps, whereupon it became clear that the wasps were not only carrying water back to the nest but also cooling it with their wingbeats.
In this companion piece to his previous zoology lesson for BBC’s EarthUnpluggedTV channel, zefrank presents some genuinely fascinating true facts about the mole that resembles a ‘plush toy that was squeezed too hard’.
zefrank (in association with the BBC’s Earth Unplugged channel) presents true facts about the subterranean rodent that looks ‘like a little sausage encased in testicle skin’.
Joe and Sinead Fagan write:
…took these today at Sandymount / along the Bull Wall [Dublin]. I believe they are Blood Scallops but there are genuinely millions of them, all dead. the birds are not eating them so I presume there is something seriously wrong with them. What do you think?
Possibly related: Meanwhile, On Portmarnock Strand
Jess the Springer Spaniel bottle feeds Shaun the orphaned sheep.
A clip from the Martin Clunes-narrated ITV documentary The Secret Life of Dogs.
Expect to see lots of sleeping Lab pups, slobbering Bassets and Red Setters chasing parked cars.
Baby Monk parakeets quaking adorably at the prospect of grub.
Except for that one on the right.
Polly don’t play that.
Zefrank will now enlighten you with a series of facts about everybody’s favourite psychopath-faced arboreal mammal.
Previously: Things You Didn’t Know About Baby Echidnas