PickVidsBest Animals & nature Videos
The 61 Animals & nature videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 0 intermediate, 61 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include BBC Earth, BBC Studios, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.
Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
Dominion is a two-hour documentary using drones and hidden cameras to expose conditions in animal agriculture, including food, clothing, entertainment and research.
Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness
A condensed film of Dick Proenneke's footage of building a cabin and living alone in the Alaskan wilderness, using hand tools and local materials.
DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams gives a talk at UCSB, recorded shortly before his death, about the odd lives of animals and what they suggest about humanity's future.
The Intense 8 Hour Hunt | Attenborough Life of Mammals | BBC Earth
A clip from Attenborough's Life of Mammals following a San tribesman in the Kalahari on an eight-hour persistence hunt, running down a kudu through harsh heat.
Happy People | Spring (part 1) [Happy People Documentary | Spring in Siberia Part 1
The first part of Dmitry Vasyukov's four-part Russian documentary series about trappers and villagers living in the Siberian taiga.
How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics
Veritasium explains how trees lift water from roots to the top of tall trunks, using transpiration pull and the negative pressure that liquid water can sustain.
DAIRY IS SCARY!
Vegan advocate Erin Janus explains the dairy industry in about five minutes, covering how milk is produced and the treatment of cows and calves.
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
Fools & Dreamers is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve in New Zealand, where botanist Hugh Wilson let gorse grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate native forest.
Worst Nuclear Accidents in History
Kurzgesagt compares how many people nuclear accidents have killed against other energy sources.
Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal's TED talk shows videos of behavioral experiments on primates and other mammals that reveal empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity.
Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2
A DIY demonstration of a fan-and-screen mosquito trap that uses carbonated water as a CO2 attractant.
Why Koko (Probably) Couldn't Talk (Sorry) | The Deep Dive
A long video essay arguing that Koko the gorilla probably could not actually use sign language.
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot narrates how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone after about 70 years set off a trophic cascade.
Crow skiing down a roof
A one-minute clip of a crow repeatedly sliding down a snowy roof on a small lid, apparently just for fun.
Kedi - Full Length Documentary
Kedi is a feature documentary following seven street cats of Istanbul and the people who care for them.
How wildlife trade is linked to coronavirus
A Vox explainer on how the wildlife trade and wet markets are linked to coronavirus and why new diseases keep emerging in China.
My Octopus Teacher: The Greatest Horror Film
Maggie Mae Fish analyzes the documentary My Octopus Teacher as an eco-horror film, critiquing it as a story of a man projecting his own needs onto a wild animal.
Bed Bugs- What You've Been Told is Totally False
Mark Rober digs into bed bugs, testing popular beliefs about where they come from and how to get rid of them.
How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey
A Royal Institution lecture in which Nicholas Humphrey presents his theory of phenomenal consciousness and its evolution.
Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics | Smarter Every Day 58
Destin of Smarter Every Day films a cat falling in high-speed slow motion to show how cats right themselves in midair, and introduces the physics behind it.
Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife
A short BBC clip in which David Attenborough shows a lyrebird imitating sounds, including camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws.
Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife
A three-minute clip from BBC's Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough about Cordyceps, the fungus that infects insects and takes over their behavior.
Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow
A silent PLOS ONE video of New Caledonian crows solving Aesop's Fable puzzles by dropping objects to raise water and reach food.
Are Crows the Ultimate Problem Solvers? | Inside the Animal Mind | BBC Earth
A BBC Earth clip from Inside the Animal Mind in which a crow named 007 solves an eight-step puzzle to get a reward.