Well - I just realized that I haven't uploaded a lemur video yet. To rise the lemur quota, here is a cute cuddly Sifaka (living in semi-captivity on Lemur Island near Andasibe, Madagascar). It lives alone there as it had been found injured on a street after a cyclone and brought there. Now, regulations prohibit translocating it elsewhere so it is kind of a sad story.
Famous/notorious bright-eyed South African herpetologist Marius Burger explains to a film crew what a Malagasy bright-eyed treefrog (Boophis luteus) is.
Note this bad noise in the background: that's how a rainforest sounds at night
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So... what do people do in Braunschweig? Not much, except in October. Then there is Battle of the Year, an international Breakdance / B-boying event.
Sorry, couldn't get much better footage since it was quite dark, but you get the idea.
This one was a quite bad one, it flooded half of Madagascar and destroyed much of the crop.
The clip shows the Naorona river near Valbio research station in Ranomafana, Madagascar. I try to find and upload a video that shows how this river normally looks like, which is not half as threatening as it looked in February after this cyclone.
I was wondering whether it was really a good idea to accept this guy's offer to give us a ride - considering we were 12 people and only one car - and, surprise, it hurt!
Driving up a track in Isalo, Madagascar.
There was, obviously, no bridge around.
- Well, now how to cross it? This german herpetologist tries different tactics, and eventually succeeds :)
(there is a second video uploaded)
Famous German herpetologist Miguel Vences explains to a South African film team why the frogs of Madagascar are so special - because all of them are endemic, means that they occur no where else in the world.
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are an endangered species, but those two seem to be doing well, hanging around in the surf in Monterey Bay and doing .. well .. not much. But I was happy to see them.
Famous/notorious bright-eyed South African herpetologist Marius Burger tries to spice up an interview by imitating frog calls. In the background, you can hear the real frogs of a Malagasy rainforest calling.
There was, obviously, no bridge around.
- Well, now how to cross it? This german herpetologist tries different tactics, and eventually succeeds :)
(second clip)
360° clip filmed in the Isalo massiv, Madagascar. It was quite hot and we were supposed to find an endemic species of skink. 8 hours later, we succeeded, but paid for it with heat stroke the next few days....
Pictures of animals, especially in macro, are quite often staged. Here is a german herpetologist trying to photograph a Malagasy narrow-mouthed frog on some leaves in the lab of Valbio Station in Ranomafana, Madagascar.
So, there was this moving thing in the leaflitter, and I was quite surprised fo find out that it was a bunch of insect larvae that was moving together as one unit. Later I learned from an entomologist, that this is actually a quite common thing for insect larvae to do.
This one was a quite bad one, it flooded half of Madagascar and destroyed much of the crop.
The clip shows the Naorona river near Valbio research station in Ranomafana, Madagascar. I try to find and upload a video that shows how this river normally looks like, which is not half as threatening as it looked in February after this cyclone.
At daytime, there are only a few frogs calling in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar (here Ranomafana National Park). This "acoustic niche" is occupied by these large cicadas, that can make quite some noise.
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Jellyfish are amazing, aren't they? And the word jellyfish is also much more beautiful than "Qualle" as it would be in German.. These were filmed in the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 2006.
