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These Animals Actually LIKE Getting Caught
Even when animal traps are humane, it seems pretty obvious that animals wouldn't want to get caught. But sometimes, there are oddballs that love getting trapped. Here's what we know about what can make some animals so darn trap happy.
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The Carnivorous Plants That Gave Up Meat for Poop
Seymour might have had better luck had he raised one of these Bornean plants instead of a giant Venus flytrap. Instead of evolving to eat animals, they’ve evolved to play nice in exchange for their nutrient rich feces.
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8 Creative Ways Animals Store Food
You aren't the only animal with a pantry! Hosted by: Michael Aranda
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How Did You Get Here?! (Unexpected Ways Species Travel the World)
Sometimes, species end up in places we wouldn't expect, like when the same or very similar species end up on opposite parts of the globe. It's called disjunct distribution, and here are 6 ways that it can happen.
SciShow Kids
Echolocation: Seeing with Sound! | Amazing Animal Senses | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Mister Brown learn all about echolocation, and how animals use it to sense things! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...
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The Carnivorous Plants That Gave Up Meat for Poop
Seymour might have had better luck had he raised one of these Bornean plants instead of a giant Venus flytrap. Instead of evolving to eat animals, they’ve evolved to play nice in exchange for their nutrient rich feces.
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Biotic Factors: How Living Things Impact Communities and Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines and explains how biotic factors, which are living factors that affect a community, can impact the members and distribution of organisms in ecosystems. The...
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Understanding Abiotic Factors and Their Impact on Communities
This is a lecture presentation about abiotic factors and how they can affect a community. The presentation also discusses how changes in one abiotic factor can impact the relationships between different organisms within a community.
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Understanding Communities and Key Terms
The video is a lecture presentation on communities and the relationships between organisms within them. It uses an example of a community that includes an owl, a snake, a shrew, a frog, a beetle, grasshopper, and grass living in a wooded...
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Abiotic Factors and Their Effect on Communities
The video is a lecture presentation on abiotic factors. It defines what abiotic factors are and how they can impact the number and type of organisms within a community. The presenter discusses different abiotic factors such as light...
Curated Video
Biotic Factors: How Living Things Affect Ecosystems and Communities
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines biotic factors and explains how they can affect communities and ecosystems. The focus is on living factors, such as availability of food, arrival of new...
Bizarre Beasts
How The Solenodon Became Venomous
The venomous mammal club is so small you’d think they’d all be closely related, but it turns out solenodons have been doing their own thing for a very long time.
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Communities: Relationships and Key Terms
The video is a lecture presentation on communities and the relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. The narrator uses the example of a community of organisms in a wooded area and discusses the feeding relationships between them....
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Trophic Levels and Biomass in Ecology
The video discusses the important ecological concepts of trophic levels and biomass. The video provides an example of a food chain, from grass plants as producers to apex predators that have no predators of their own. The video explains...
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Understanding Trophic Levels in an Ecosystem
The video is a lecture presentation on trophic levels in ecosystems. The presenter defines trophic levels as feeding levels in a community or ecosystem and explains how they can be used to organize feeding relationships. The concept of a...
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The Importance of Biodiversity in Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biodiversity. The video explains the importance of maintaining high levels of biodiversity and how human activities are reducing it. The presenter uses examples to illustrate how changes in one...
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Feeding Relationships and Predator-Prey Cycles in Ecosystems
This is a lecture presentation on feeding relationships in ecosystems. The presenter discusses the interdependence of different organisms in a community and the consequences of a change in that community. Using a specific community as an...