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Vast expanse of the Pantanal as seen from Mount Caracara
At the heart of Brazils Pantanal national park is a hill that the locals call Caracara, it's named after a common bird that you can often see rising on the thermal currents here (see my post from...
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Dung carpets to prissy bower birds - Attenborough's Animal Architects on BBC2
Animal House, 8pm BBC2, 7th September David attenborough delves into the world of animal high rises and subway systems to show us that animals are way ahead when it comes to modifying the world around...
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Animal baby cuteness overload - It's Nature's Miracle Babies!
Episode 2, Sunday 11th September, 6:30pm, BBC One All over the world, species are on the brink of extinction. Springwatch presenter and wildlife TV producer Martin Hughes-Games, brings us a...
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Is Tony Blair a fan of Deadly? Live 'n' Deadly starts saturday BBC2
BBC2 & CBBC from 9am Live 'n' Deadly bursts back on to our TV screens this Saturday morning with more deadly animals and daring adventures from Steve and Naomi. PS. Just discovered where Tony...
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Dinosaurs - Big, Bad & Bizarre - hold on to your seats for Planet Dinosaur on...
Planet Dinosaur, BBC One, 8:30pm, Weds 14th September. As a trained palaeontologist I've been waiting for this series since I watched the last episode of Walking with Dinosaurs with my colleagues at...
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The Geology of Music - London event inspired by life 650 million yrs ago...
On October 2nd I'll be in conversation with Princeton Professor Dr Adam Maloof, discoverer of the earths oldest known animal life. This will follow a unique musical performance by composers Lola...
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BBC Dinosaur programmes that I'm missing - catch up on iPlayer while you can.
I can't believe that I didn't work on any of these Dinosaur programmes and that I'm away in the soggy wilderness when they're being broadcast. Too many great films and not enough time to work on, or...
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Micheala Strachan, you broke my heart... but it's OK 'cos now you're on...
To celebrate Micheala Strachan's much anticipated return to British wildlife TV I'm playing this track by Scouting for Girls... Be sure to catch Micheala and Chris Packham, on Autumnwatch this Friday...
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Bees stick tongue out in the face of a worldwide decline @qikipedia
In recent years there have been a spate of high profile projects aimed at turning bees into conditioned field agents. Their objective, to create an inconspicuous line of defence against terrorism,...
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A roll call to the majestic - 49 exotic animals escape and are hunted in Ohio
Last night 56 animals escaped from a zoo in Ohio, to protect the public they were hunted down and 49 were killed. An unbelievable story. The owner, Terry Thompson, had previously been convicted of...
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Amazing adventure of a Quebecian logging truck
Filmed and edited on iPhone. These huge logging trucks whiz about at high speed on the undulating back-country roads of Quebec. Out here the loggers rule, most of the roads belong to the logging...
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Party in the Pantanal - hydrophytes, caiman & tequila
Somewhere in the Pantanal... Filmed using an iPhone and Camalapse egg timer. Edited on an iPhone. The Pantanal is not only the worlds largest wetland but also contains the highest diversity of...
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Top 8 Dinosaur songs of all time?
Sadly, the list of Dinosaur themed music is very limited. You could include anything by T-Rex or Dinosaur Jr, but considering that they didn't actually release a dinosaur themed song I have excluded...
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Chris Packham's guide to making wildlife films
Chris Packham: Making your own wildlife films Here's some tips to wildlife filmmaking from Chris Packham. I've posted a few quotes below that stick out to me but for the full article visit the...
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Cyberstalking Psychos to Elfs - 5 mins of fun in the office!
Ever thought that you might be sharing too much information on Facebook? Then this video might be the trigger to sort out your security settings. Visit www.takethislollipop.com and click on the lolly....
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Ecotourism or Ecoterrorism? A Big Cats Tale #Jaguar
Here's something that was recently posted to the Facebook page of Nature Conservation Foundation. As wildlife photographer Kalyan Varma says 'This is how we love our tigers to death in the name of...
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Top 7 'Evolution' moments including Homer sapien, Mr Garrison's take on...
Here is a list of what I consider to be the top 6 TV Evolution moments. Witness the evolution of Homer sapien and then watch it all in reverse with the classic noitulovE commercial. Be carried away...
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How long will you survive? Download the free app from @ARKive
I just download SURVIVAL, ARKive's Free iPhone & Android Game Tap, drag, scroll, swipe and pinch your way through a series of quick-fire mini-games to reveal the identity of some of the world's...
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Less than 800 left - a gorilla is for life not just for Christmas...
Give the gift of life this Christmas, adopt a Gorilla to help the Dian Fossey Fund continue their critical work I have just received this 'Gorilliant' infographic from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund...
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Children in Need Pub Quiz 2011 - including Audiovisual Rounds @BBCCiN
Children in Need raised over 26 million pounds on the television telethon (8 million more than last year). If you haven't donated yet then it's not too late - visit the Children in Need website. On...
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