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Upupa, Oprah. Oprah, Upupa.

February 8, 2010

Good news, everyone! No, really! The approximate U.S. release date for BBC’s new nature-glam documentary “Life” has been set. It will be sometime this March on the Discovery Channel, according to wikipedia, but sadly, BBC has willfully ignored my helpful suggestion *not* to replace David Attenborough’s narration with a pedestrian American track by Sigourney Weaver, [...]

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Oceans: A New Film by the Greatest Nature Documentarian of All Time (IMHO)

February 2, 2010

I can’t say enough about the work of Jacques Perrin. The French filmmaker has been making nature documentaries of the highest order since 1996, when “Microcosmos” was released (though unlike films I will mention later in this post he only produced, not directed the film). The film, a triumph of bringing the daily dramas of [...]

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Excuse Me Sir . . . My Seal Seems to be Possessed by a Roland Synthesizer . . .

November 18, 2009

Taking a break from the heavy taxonomy for a moment, let’s have a quick bit of weird wonderfulness. I could not believe my ears when I viewed this excerpt from Werner Herzog’s recent film about Antarctica courtesy Zooillogix . . .

Wow! Amazing, huh? Though the bit halfway when the researchers listen to the seals under [...]

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Life on Earth Has a Soundtrack?

November 10, 2009

Oh, Sir David Attenborough . . . how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Blue Planet . . .  Planet Earth . . . Life in the Undergrowth . . . and a gem I just recently encountered, his 1979 BBC debut, Life on Earth. I haven’t seen it, but apparently someone [...]

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