Sentences with phrase «in wildlife documentaries»

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For decades, wildlife documentaries have promoted the idea that Komodo dragons owe their success as predators to toxic bacteria in their saliva — a claim bolstered by a 2002 study reporting deaths among lab mice injected with their saliva.

In 1958, Disney released a documentary called White Wilderness, which showed the wildlife of the Arctic on the cinema screen.

The evidence for this behavior was captured by wildlife film maker John Downer, who, in his documentary Dolphins: Spies in the Pod, witnessed a group of young dolphins snag a puffer fish from near the ocean floor and begin to pass it around.

Each projects a feral sexuality, a rangy angularity that's reminiscent of graceful wild animals, beautiful but dangerous, and watching them at work is like seeing a superior wildlife documentary with sex and slaughter thrown in for good measure.

The effects of big - game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation on endangered African animals are investigated in this documentary.

The tour is laid out in three themed, two - hour documentary film blocks, featuring Ice Call by Sam Favret, showing a surreal landscape inside glaciers, to the hilarious Owl Dance - Off Part II, the much - anticipated follow - up to wildlife photographer Megan Lorenz's award - winning Internet sensation that made stars of two burrowing owls.

I read a one paragraph mention of her death in The New York Times Digest, headlined «Conservationist Killed»: «Joan Root, animal lover and conservationist who collaborated with her husband, Alan, on wildlife documentaries in the 1970s, was killed on Jan. 13 in Naivasha, Kenya.

The birds and mammals at Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges feature in 42 wildlife documentaries.

Tcholakian, who was five months» pregnant during the filming of the new documentary on Belize, used her talent to bring viewers an up close and personal look at wildlife in Belize.

Written, created, and produced by award - winning Canadian filmmaker Garine Tcholakian, the six - part documentary contains an in - depth look at the wildlife in Belize.

Guests will be able to visit the locations shown in the documentary as well as getting the chance to see the wildlife showcased in World of Wide.

These are far removed from wildlife photography's documentary images of animals observed in their natural habitat.

From the formalisation of natural history as a science, through the establishment of museums and zoos, to lavish contemporary wildlife documentaries, the exhibition reveals the hierarchies in our view of the natural world, and considers how these influence our actions, or inactions, towards the planet.

As I've written before, the pictures (and in this case video) are the antithesis of the perfectly framed and focused wildlife photography typical of National Geographic and BBC documentaries (those images have their purpose, too, mind you):