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.
Attenborough: the amazing Lyre Bird sings like a chainsaw! Now in high quality | BBC Earth
A short BBC Earth clip from David Attenborough's Life of Birds showing a lyrebird imitating sounds, including a chainsaw and camera shutter, so accurately it is hard to tell from the real thing.
The Secret Reason Horses Let Us Ride Them
CGP Grey explains why horses could be ridden and why other animals like zebras and bears were never domesticated for war or riding.
If You Eat Meat You Should Know This
A Kurzgesagt video on the conditions in which most farm animals are raised.
Spider With Three Super Powers | The Hunt | BBC Earth
A BBC Earth clip from The Hunt showing Portia jumping spiders, which leap many times their body length and ambush prey larger than themselves.
How Wolves Change Rivers [REMASTERED HD] - George Monbiot
A short narrated video describing how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone triggered a trophic cascade that changed wildlife, vegetation and even river courses.
Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
An episode of Journey to the Microcosmos, hosted by Hank Green, about diatoms, single-celled algae with glass shells.
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
Benn Jordan's video about storing a PNG image in a living bird, a starling that learns to reproduce encoded sounds.
Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
A short excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED talk showing a capuchin monkey fairness experiment in which two monkeys are paid unequally, one with cucumber and one with grapes.
Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals
A BBC Weird Nature clip about vervet monkeys in the Caribbean that drink alcohol, and how they split into heavy drinkers, social drinkers and teetotalers.
Are WILD cockatoos smart enough to solve this puzzle?
Maker's Muse designs a 3D-printed and laser-cut puzzle box to test whether wild sulphur-crested cockatoos can solve it.
The Dolphin House
Atrocity Guide covers the 1965 dolphin experiments of Dr.
The Bizarre Truth About Purebred Dogs (and Why Mutts Are Better) - Adam Ruins Everything
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that purebred dogs suffer from inbreeding and genetic disorders, and that mutts are healthier.
Experiment! How Does An Owl Fly So Silently? | Super Powered Owls | BBC
A BBC Earth clip from Super Powered Owls in which the team uses sensitive sound equipment to compare owl flight with other birds.
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
A short PBS Eons episode on carcinization, the repeated independent evolution of crab-like bodies in unrelated crustaceans, and what makes that form so successful.
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
A Half as Interesting explainer on the US program that drops millions of sterile screwworm flies over Panama every week to keep the parasite out of North America.
Cats in a Cat Cafe in Japan Reacting to an Earthquake - 994393
A one-minute clip from a cat cafe in Japan where sleeping cats wake and look around just before an earthquake begins shaking the room.
My Squirrel Recording is in a MOVIE! 📽 DUNE: Mark Mangini, Oscar Winning Sound Designer
Wildlife videographer Dani Connor Wild talks with Oscar-winning sound designer Mark Mangini about how her red squirrel recording became the desert mouse sound in Dune.
Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe
A clip from Channel 4's Inside Nature's Giants in which Richard Dawkins shows the recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe during a dissection.
amazing starlings murmuration (full HD) -www.keepturningleft.co.uk
Footage of a huge flock of starlings performing a murmuration, filmed by wildlife cameraman Dylan Winter.
Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land | The Hunt | BBC Earth
A BBC Earth clip from The Hunt showing an octopus species from northern Australia that leaves the water at low tide to hunt crabs on land.
Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay
Primatologist Frans de Waal shows an experiment in which capuchin monkeys refuse a reward after seeing a partner get a better one for the same task.
Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest Alan Watson Featherstone TEDxFindhorn
Alan Watson Featherstone, founder of Trees for Life, describes nearly 30 years of work restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands, illustrated with his photography.
QI | No Such Thing As A Fish
A short clip from the British panel show QI in which the panel discusses why there is no such thing as a fish as a biological category.
Capuchin monkey fairness experiment
A one-minute clip from Frans de Waal's TED talk showing two capuchin monkeys given unequal rewards (cucumber versus grape) for the same task.