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Featured documentary · Blue Planet II
Blue Planet II: an hour in the deep ocean
A 67-minute official compilation from Blue Planet II in 4K: glowing fish, the Portuguese man o' war and other ocean ani…
BBC Earth · verified publisher
Our Planet: the full series · 8 videos
Planet Earth I, II & III · 27 videos
A hornbill feeds his sealed-in mate
BBC Earth
Common frogs race to the breeding pond
BBC Earth
Teaching northern bald ibises to migrate
BBC Earth
15 calm minutes from Planet Earth III
BBC Earth
A Columbus crab on a drifting raft
BBC Earth
Blue Planet II · 12 videos
Clownfish move a coconut shell
BBC Earth
A puffin brings fish home
BBC Earth
The kobudai that changes sex
BBC Earth
Protecting leatherback turtle nests
BBC Earth
Africa: lions, elephants & the savanna · 40 videos
The last two northern white rhinos
BBC Earth
A brown hyena in a desert ghost town
BBC Earth
How an elephant family raises a calf
BBC Earth
More landmark series · 36 videos
Marine iguanas feeding underwater
BBC Earth
Fifty million red crabs head for the sea
BBC Earth
Fire ants build a living raft
BBC Earth
Kilauea erupts
BBC Earth
A seal pup takes its first swim
BBC Earth
Frogs & amphibians · 50 videos
Common frogs race to the breeding pond
BBC Earth
Gliding leaf frogs
BBC Earth
Reed frogs sing for a mate
BBC Earth
A tree frog climbs to find a mate
BBC Earth
An African bullfrog guards his tadpoles
BBC Earth
Frogs of a cork oak forest
BBC Earth
The frogs of Yakushima Island
BBC Earth
Searching for frogs in Borneo
BBC Earth
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A rarely seen dumbo octopus
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A frog father climbs 60 feet for his tadpoles
Nature on PBS
A two-toed sloth plays with a hose
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
Inside a glass frog
Nat Geo Animals
How glass frogs breed
Smithsonian Channel
Gardening to help birds at home
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Getting a kitten: what to check and prepare
Cats Protection
First looks at life in the Romanche Fracture Zone
Schmidt Ocean Institute
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Bird Behaviour · 18 videos
An albatross builds its nest
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Albatrosses defend their courting spot
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
An albatross lays her egg as the Royal Cam season begins
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Albatross parents swap incubation shifts
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Blue jays sorting through peanuts
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
A blue jay caches seeds for winter
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Pine grosbeaks cracking seeds
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
A white-throated sparrow at the feeders
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
A red-breasted nuthatch with an unusually long bill
Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Ocean Exploration · 46 videos
Remora fish that follow grazing dugongs
BBC Earth
A decorator crab carrying a sponge
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A large squid passes the ROV
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A metre-wide hydroid on a deep seamount
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A "cow-tongue" ribbon worm in open water
NOAA Ocean Exploration
The largest sponge on record
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A rarely seen dumbo octopus
NOAA Ocean Exploration
Life around an active underwater volcano
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A spiral deep-sea coral
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A bottom-dwelling deep-sea anglerfish
NOAA Ocean Exploration
Pet Care Basics · 9 videos
Spotting the signs of stress in a cat
Cats Protection
Why a cat might bite or swipe
Cats Protection
Getting a kitten: what to check and prepare
Cats Protection
Keeping an indoor cat healthy and occupied
Cats Protection
Moving house with a cat
Cats Protection
Introducing a new horse to a field companion
Blue Cross
Wildlife Observation · 8 videos
Zoo Life & Conservation Science · 7 videos
How red ruffed lemurs communicate
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
A young elephant bathes and dusts
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
An elephant calf learns to swim
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
Meerkats investigate enrichment pumpkins
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
A two-toed sloth plays with a hose
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
A scimitar-horned oryx calf gets her first health check
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
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Can captive breeding stop extinctions?
Nature on PBS
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Birds
A beginner's bird-observation checklist and field-notes template
A practical routine for a first birding session, an ethics summary based on the ABA code, and a copyable field-notes template that fits eBird's checklist rules.
3 min read
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Conservation
How to evaluate the credibility of a wildlife video
Check the source, the setting and the story. Includes the warning signs of staged "rescue" content identified by an animal-protection coalition.
3 min read
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Oceans
Ocean habitats, and how to choose an ocean documentary
A depth-by-depth guide to the ocean's zones, what can live in each, and a checklist for judging how ocean footage was made.
3 min read
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Wildlife
Reading animal behaviour without assigning unsupported human motives
Describe first, interpret second. A method based on Tinbergen's four questions, with a worked example from research on the dog "guilty look".
3 min read