This video from Today I Found Out is about the differences between bees, wasps, and hornets. So, hornets are a type of wasp, and wasps can be either social or solitary. And after their working life wasps spend their time waiting to die getting drunk. Or something like that. Watch the video.
This magpie sang a song and received a reward at Robe today. The seagulls tried to join in; they knew the words but can’t hold a tune, so no rewards.
This comedy sketch presents a faux nature documentary featuring Australia’s own white ibis, which has become an urban scavenger, the bin chicken. Perhaps this will be an example of what nature documentaries will transition into.
Something different on this trip to Sydney has been sightings of pushbikes just sitting around the place unattended. Watch them quietly resting in the urban wilderness, sometimes alone, other times in small peletons.
As we swelter away in Mount Gambier with the temperature making it to 41 degrees Celsius yesterday and it’s back up to 36 degrees today about midday, here’s a slightly surreal BBC video featuring the town of Ain Sefra, on the edge of the Sahara desert, where, as unlikely as it may seem, they had …
This four minute video condenses a journey along the length of the Continental Divide Trail from the US/Mexico border to the US/Canada border through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, covering some 5000kms. Finally, a way to appreciate the outdoors. I think I’m going to watch the three hour Ghan train movie on SBS …
There’s a substantial amount of editing used to make nature documentaries. In order for them to seem natural, lots of unnatural stuff is done post filming in production.
