Life Goes On: Enhanced Video Resource
In this video segment from Nature: “Radioactive Wolves”, biologists monitor how several animal species have been affected by long-term radiation exposure in the “Exclusion Zone” surrounding the site of...
View ArticleA World Without Humans: Enhanced Video Resource
This video segment from Nature: “Radioactive Wolves” explores the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its consequences upon the landscape, wildlife, and human population of what has...
View ArticleRaccoons and the City: Enhanced Video Resource
This video segment from Nature: “Raccoon Nation” explores the migration of raccoons to cities and discusses traits that help them thrive in urban environments, including their flexible hands, small...
View ArticleObserving the Secret Lives of Raccoons: Enhanced Video Resource
This video segment from Nature: “Raccoon Nation” highlights a study which explored the movements of urban raccoons. Biologists Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux and Suzanne MacDonald conducted the study in...
View ArticleLearning to be a Raccoon: Enhanced Video Resource
This video segment from Nature: “Raccoon Nation” explores the critical role raccoon mothers play in caring for their young and teaching them important survival skills and behaviors. The segment...
View ArticleThe Koala Diet: Enhanced Video Resource
This enhanced video resource examines how the koala’s unique diet of eucalyptus leaves affects their behavior. (View full post to see video) Discussion Questions: Why did people once think that koalas...
View ArticleHow to be an Alpha Male Koala: Enhanced Video Resource
This video resource offers ringside seats to a territorial battle for dominance between two male koalas. (View full post to see video) Discussion Questions: Which koala males tend to have the...
View ArticleChallenges for Urban Kangaroos: Enhanced Video Resource
This video resource from Nature: Kangaroo Mob explores the challenges that many kangaroos encounter in urban environments including: negative media attention, fences, cars, and domestic dogs. (View...
View ArticlePopulation Control Controversy: Enhanced Video Resource
This video resource explores the controversy over the Australian government’s approach to controlling the growing population of kangaroos in Canberra through culling. (View full post to see video)...
View ArticleTracking Natural Behaviors: Enhanced Video Resource
This video resource follows two government ecologists as they embark on a one year study to track the movement patterns of the eastern gray kangaroo. (View full post to see video) Discussion Questions:...
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