Catching the most painful stinging insects on the planet! Field Biologist 2025-01-16 | With Matt Parker and Stand-up Maths See the full video on the Stand-up Maths channelyoutube.com/watch?v=Vv-lWg5HNaMyoutube.com/@standupmathsHuge thanks to Alex Genn-Bash, Matt Parker and Nicole JacobusMichael and Dani: / the_wayfinders_ Hugo Cliff: / hugocliff_rainforest Greg Foot: / gregfoot And Greg is doing a new schools talk "Rainforest Lab" gregfoot.com/talksThanks to Rainforest Expeditions for inviting us to visit their Research Centres in Peru and facilitating us getting stung by things in a safe environment. Read more about the research being done in the rainforest by Wired Amazon. They take science research volunteers as well as offering paid trips. wiredamazon.com / @rainforestexpeditions / rainforestexpeditions Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Science in the Simpsons - The Real Chuzzwozza! Truth stranger than fiction... Field Biologist 2025-01-17 | The invasion of Australia by came toads is the classic example of a 'biological invasion' the next biggest cause of biodiversity loss after habitat loss (and now climate change). The Simpsons blamed Bart... in reality it was some bad science that started one of our best known ecological disasters, and a classic, very funny, documentary that everyone should still watch. Credits The Simpsons: Season 6, Episode 16 Bart vs. Australia Cane Toads: An Unnatural History Mark Lewis 1988 Film Australia Cartoon Sting - Doug Maxwell_Media Right Productions Horror sting John Patitucci Horror Bass Choir Quoll image Wildlife Explorer, CC 3.0 Wikimedia CommonsRrakali image Patrick kavanagh, CC 2.0 Wikimedia Commons Pobblebonk image Matt Clancy CC 2.0 Wikimedia Commons Wallum froglet image NSW Government Cane toad sausages image ABC News Australia Helicopter image ABC News Australia
Bullet Ant vs Probe Lens and Matt Parker #bulletant #probelens #insects Field Biologist 2025-01-16 | Matt Parker and team being stung by bullet ants on the Stand-up Maths Channel.We used a Laowa 24mm f/14 probe lens to get the close-up wide shots and extreme close up shots.See the full video on the Stand-up Maths channelyoutube.com/@standupmaths
A very cross caterpillar... Field Biologist 2024-01-22 | Introducing Isognathus leachii - otherwise known as the 'very cross catterpillar' - n the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest
Theres no scientific definition of monkey... Field Biologist 2023-12-18 | There's nothing quite like calling chimpanzees monkeys to wind up the education staff at the zoo. But, for all the effort teaching people the difference... its not really a scientific error.With thanks to all at Colchester Zoo, especially the education team and chimpanzee keepers.Thanks also to Edinburgh Zoo for the first crack at this, and the clips that survived.
Can army ants be used to stitch a wound? As in the movie Apocalypto... Field Biologist 2023-08-18 | I should have paid more attention...
How painful is the most painful insect sting? I had to know! #bulletant #ant #wildlife #insects Field Biologist 2022-11-25 | ...
Are baby electric eels dangerous? Field Biologist 2022-11-23 | They can't be that powerful... can they?Check out the long-format video on the channel too.
Bush Dog Face Lift #shorts Field Biologist 2022-11-03 | What kind of dog is this? Try the full-length video @aFieldBiologist!
We are tracking these rare wild dogs using their unique voice... Field Biologist 2022-10-22 | This rare wild dog's unique voice helps us count them for conservation.Wildilife surveys are gettting more sophisitcated and we hope new methods will help us count things we've never been able to count before - like these rare Amazonina bush dogs...My brilliant students on the University of Suffolk's Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Science degree joined the bioacoustics research group for their third year projects. In collaboration with Colchester Zoo. Their research informs conservation research in the Amazon.
Snake Mimic Caterpillar Field Biologist 2022-10-18 | Finally met the snake mimic caterpillar! Larva of a sphinx hawk moth (Hemeroplanes triptolemus). Thanks to Jake, Mike and Will who found the thing out in the ACR Maijuna on the Rio Napo, Peru.
Short-eared dog - whats in her mouth?! camera trap #shorts Field Biologist 2021-02-07 | From the Majuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area, Rio Napo, Peru.Consensus so far is that she's got a skink (lizard) a Western Amazon Mabuya (Varzea altamazonica)
Venus flytraps are rubbish... Field Biologist 2020-10-31 | Before you buy a venus flytrap as fly control... do the entomologists have a better way?Sources:Khamesipour, F., Lankarani, K.B., Honarvar, B. and Kwenti, T.E., 2018. A systematic review of human pathogens carried by the housefly (Musca domestica L.). BMC Public Health, 18(1), p.1049.Sánchez-Bayo, F. and Wyckhuys, K.A., 2019. Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. Biological Conservation, 232, pp.8-27.Darwin, C., 1875. The carnivorous plants. Murray
Bullet ant warning sounds! #shorts Field Biologist 2020-10-10 | Bullet Ant or Isula Ant (Paraponera clavata) has (probably) the most painful insect sting, but gives you a warning first...Filmed on the Yavari River, Peruvian Amazon
Nikons 30-year-old DSLR camera trap (for $50) is one of the best! Field Biologist 2020-10-06 | Nikon have had a first class active DSLR camera trap trigger for years. Although originally it was just an SLR camera trap! It is precise, reliable, and probably the cheapest option out there - even if you have to buy a used Nikon camera to go with it!Amazon Affiliate links - but I'm no longer in the program :(The kit featured:Nikon ML-3 Compact Modulite Remote Set:amzn.to/30CRDk8Nikon MC-21 Extension Cord 3M:amzn.to/3lhPPVtWaterproof housing - My lens port came from one of these, but there are cheaper options:amzn.to/3nkVBaTPixel Pawn TF-362 Wireless Nikon Flash Trigger (these are the latest version of the pixel rooks that I have, and wake up the flash from standby):amzn.to/3lm6c3B‘PC’ Flash Sync Cable Cord:amzn.to/3lmxB5rPossibly the best camera trap camera available if you don’t like second hand:amzn.to/3d4B5GKA choice camera trap lens if you have the budget – great in low light:amzn.to/3npjkGLShot on this:amzn.to/2SyH5OBmost importantly with this:amzn.to/30DzcvQ
Whos that crossing over our bridge? Field Biologist 2020-06-07 | One camera trap and a log bridge over a stream in the Amazon rainforest...We hope to start the 8-primates project in Tambopata post pandemic:http://www.perunature.com/wiredamazon/8-primatesIf you prefer macaws, you can do that too:http://www.perunature.com/wiredamazon/macawcamOr look at our other Wired Amazon Projects with Rainforest ExpeditionsAll shot on a Bushnell Trophy Cam:amzn.to/378rBHu(Affiliate link)
Wild guppies invading the Amazon Field Biologist 2019-04-06 | Guppies are lovely, but they are also one of the World's most invasive fish species. They live and breed in some 'marginal' habitats, and may get more colourful when they live alongside us in the city...
I put my microphone in a tank of (baby) electric eels Field Biologist 2018-11-26 | I may also have put my hand inCatania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their electric field to induce involuntary fatigue in struggling prey. Current Biology, 25(22), pp.2889-2898.Catania, K.C., 2016. Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt’s account of a battle with horses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(25), pp.6979-6984.Music:Distant Tension by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Distant+Tension&page=0Artist: http://incompetech.com
Amazing student research projects in the Amazon rainforest Field Biologist 2018-08-31 | I worked with some exceptional students in April: Henry, Lainey, Lauren, Susan, jack, Bridget and Kara with special thanks to Percy too.
Tracking Andean bears Field Biologist 2018-04-14 | Eat like a bear...Wayqecha is famous for its bears... and its humming birds... and for that matter its clouds and its forest too! On the edge of Manu National park, a rare sighting of a wild guinea pig had already sent my oxygen-starved head spinning, and then we went tracking Andean bears on the steep mist-enshrouded mountains that lead down to the park itself. Wayqecha may be the most stunning, comfortable and best-placed biological station on the planet, and the students were in good spirits for the class and the video we made during it! Everyone agreed that we'd love to spend more time up there, rubbing shoulders with the biologists who are studying the cloud-forest, and enjoying the worm hospitality of the Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica (ACCA).
Camera trapping the mineral licks Field Biologist 2018-02-10 | Setting up a camera trapping field exercise for The School for Field Studies on the Rio Sucusari.fieldstudies.org/centers/peru
Itching powder ants - worse than a bullet ant... Field Biologist 2017-08-13 | Pucacuro (Allomerus sp.) - they burn!To me - worse than a bullet ant... at least when they gang up... they are tiny!Corrected and extended version! Thanks to Philipp Hönle for notes on identification, and a heads-up that the paper published (in Nature) on the ants' ambush techniques has recently been thrown into doubt... we await further publications!
Is this scorpions entire body a light sensor? Field Biologist 2017-06-14 | ...and why they fluoresce in UV light?
No such thing as a fish? Well in that case... Field Biologist 2017-04-26 | Phylogeny - Classifying with Evolutionary Relationships. There's a great podcast out there called 'No such thing as a fish', because... phylogeny... But by that logic...
Howler monkeys give something up to have a louder roar... Field Biologist 2017-04-14 | We find these weird bones at hunting camps in the Amazon...The full citation for the main study mentioned is:Dunn, J.C., Halenar, L.B., Davies, T.G., Cristobal-Azkarate, J., Reby, D., Sykes, D., Dengg, S., Fitch, W.T. and Knapp, L.A., 2015. Evolutionary trade-off between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys. Current Biology, 25(21), pp.2839-2844.
Harpy Eagles attack my cameras! Field Biologist 2017-01-16 | We are getting a lot of videos of large eagles in our camera traps, and for some reason they are attacking our cameras. These birds are really interesting to me as a mammologist - they like to eat a lot of my study species! Unfortunately they are pretty elusive, so we are looking at ways of studying them remotely. Some of them are juveniles and tricky to identify. So if there are any ornithologists watching who what to help out, you can let me know in the comments indicating the m:s of the clips.Refugio Amazonas host my AmazonCam Tambopata research under their Wired Amazon project:http://www.perunature.com/wiredamazon
Six Bullet Ant Stings Field Biologist 2016-12-20 | A fair amount of pain just to explain sample size!See bullet ants with us and Rainforest Expeditions: http://www.perunature.com/wiredamazon/8-primates360 VR version coming soon...
Can you eat an electric eel? Field Biologist 2016-11-06 | A huge electric eel. Filmed during our wildlife surveys on the Sucusari River, Rio Napo, Peru.I guess this is my first video in the 'catch and cook' genre!
Stick, Snake or caterpillar? Field Biologist 2016-10-12 | Finally met the snake mimic caterpillar! Larva of a sphinx hawk moth (Hemeroplanes triptolemus). Thanks to Jake, Mike and Will who found the thing out in the ACR Maijuna on the Rio Napo, Peru.
I put my microphone in a bullet ant nest Field Biologist 2016-08-05 | Bullet Ant or Isula Ant (Paraponera clavata) - the most painful sting ... maybe.Filmed on the Yavari River, Peruvian Amazon
The best (and worst) place to stand in Colombia... Field Biologist 2016-06-24 | This is one of the best wildlife spectacles in the world. Its amazing that so few people know about it... Every evening, in the town of Leticia in Colombia, 30,000 Canary-winged Parakeets (Brotogeris versicolurus) descend on the park to roost in the trees. Many arriving from nearby Brazil, or crossing the Amazon River from Peru. We were there on migration, so we had the unexpected bonus of hundreds of thousands of Purple Martins (and or Southern Martins - it was dark) joining the parrots. We also found tui parakeet and red-bellied macaws at the roost and bat falcons cruising the park trying to pick off the other birds.
Bitten by Army Ants Field Biologist 2016-06-23 | Testing the concept of stitching wounds with army ants... I think you are supposed to twist the heads off though. I ended up testing their stings...See army ants with us and Rainforest Expeditions: http://www.perunature.com/wiredamazon/8-primatesFilmed on the Yavari River, Peruvian Amazon
Canopy Camera Trapping Tambopata Field Biologist 2015-11-24 | Every clip of an animal in this video was recorded on a camera trap triggered by the animals themselves.The Tambopata Camera Trapping project is run by Mark Bowler and Mathias Tobler with San Diego Zoo Global and logistical support from Rainforest Expeditions.With thanks to Alfonso Zuñiga, Diego Balbuena and the rest of the research team, everyone in the fantastic team at Rainforest Expeditions, and all the volunteers that help with the photos and videos.Rainforest Expeditions:http://perunature.comRainforest Expeditions YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCxNqLdLeVSP9jqsys_JPM0ASan Diego Zoo Global Institute of Conservation Research: www.sandiegozooglobal.org/instituteMusic: Plod Along by Carrie Hope Fletcher
If you give a monkey an onion... Field Biologist 2015-10-12 | Capuchin monkeys love smelly things - science tells us why...The Journal article: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15030Edinburgh Zoo and Living Links: http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals-attractions/animals/brown-capuchin-monkeyThe Authors:Mark Bowler University of St Andrews & San Diego Zoo GlobalEmily Messer University of St. Andrews and Heriot-Watt UniversityNicolas Claidière University of St. Andrews & Aix-Marseille UniversityAndy Whiten University of St AndrewsThe Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre was funded by a Strategic Research and Development Grant from the Scottish Funding Council. This research was made possible through Wellcome Trust grants WT094440MA and WT098133A to A. Whiten. The study was begun while NC was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation and later by a John Templeton Foundation grant to AW. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. For their collaboration we thank Sophie Pearson and the other keepers, volunteers and store staff at Edinburgh Zoo, and the researchers and volunteers at Living Links. We thank research assistant Lisseth Lavajos for coding the ‘body part’ analysis.
Return of the Huangana - white-lipped peccary and Maijuna hunters Field Biologist 2015-07-20 | In 2007 the Maijuna people ejected hundreds of illegal loggers from their traditional lands, ending years of over hunting.En 2007, los Maijuna expulsaron cientos de madereros ilegales de sus territorios tradicionales y con esto terminaron años de sobre caza.
Jaguar Hunting Peccaries! camera trap #shorts Field Biologist 2014-12-28 | We have been using camera traps to monitor wildlife on the Rio Napo in the Amazon Rainforest. We sometimes get White-lipped peccary, and very occasionally we get jaguar... But we still can quite believe this...Part of my 'Primate Communities Project' for the San Diego Zoo Global's Institute for Conservation Research.
Amazon camera trap field guide - rainforest guinea pigs Field Biologist 2014-08-30 | Amazon camera trap field guide - rainforest guineapigs black agouti - Dasyprocta fuliginosagreen acouchy - Myoprocta prattiPaca - Cuniculus pacaFrom camera traps in the canopy in Maijunalands on the Rio Napo, Peru.These videos form a guide for identifying animals from camera traps in the primate communities project.
Amazon camera trap field guide - kinkajou vs olingo Field Biologist 2014-08-27 | Amazon camera trap field guidekinkajou (Potos flavus) and eastern lowland olingo (Bassaricyon alleni)From camera traps in the canopy in Maijunalands on the Rio Napo, Peru.These videos form a guide for identifying animals from camera traps in the primate communities project.
Amazon camera trap field guide - white-fronted capuchin monkey #shorts Field Biologist 2014-08-25 | Amazon camera trap field guidewhite-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons)This species usually travels with squirrel monkeys in maijunalands.From camera traps in the canopy in Maijunalands on the Rio Napo, Peru.These videos form a guide for identifying animals from camera traps in the primate communities project.
Amazon camera trap field guide - hairy saki monkey Field Biologist 2014-08-21 | Amazon field guideThe 'hairy saki' (Pithecia hirsuta)From camera traps in the canopy in Maijunalands on the Rio Napo, PeruFollowing Laura Marsh's (2014) new saki monkey taxonomy, we can confirm that we have the hairy saki east of the Napo in Maijunlands.Marsh L. 2014. A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804. Neotropical Primates July 2014http://www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/NP_special_issue_lores_part1_1-82.pdfhttp://www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/NP_special_issue_lores_part2_83-163.pdf
San Diego Zoo Global Field Course at Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru Field Biologist 2014-02-06 | A video blog from teaching on the Cocha Cashu field course in Manu. Giant otters, spider monkeys and jaguars!
The Road to Cocha Cashu, Manu Field Biologist 2014-02-05 | It takes three days to get from Cusco in the mountains, to the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Manu National Park, but with wildlife all the way! Here's the journey condensed into one minute.
Conference talk - Mexico 2012 - Temporal variation in group size in Peruvian red uakari monkeys Field Biologist 2013-09-13 | An academic talk originally given at the 2012 International Primatological Society Congress in Cancun, Mexico.
