My favorite zoology vids

Sir David Attenborough’s Tree of Life (please start here!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IrUUDboZo

(a little animal/vertebrate-centric but otherwise beautiful)

many more follow

Spiral cleavage

http://pharyngula.org/images/dextral_snail.mov

Amphioxus development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycHJMXUT2o0

Zebrafish development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJjLzyioWM

Frog development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumNod2ZXaM&NR=1

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nl68Nc_Dlc

Cambrian animals beautifully animated (yes, these existed; we have excellent fossils of each)(big .mov file takes a while to load; worth the wait)

http://www.phleschbubble.com/album/movies/phlesch_cambrian_01.mov

a ctenophore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbcnRVkzy8A

Zombie Snail & fluke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba7Po0ByX-g

cone snail eats

 http://www.naturefootage.com/video_clips/RF08_006#

“sea angel” (pelagic nudibranch) kills and eats a “sea butterfly” (pelagic snail)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqUlKSGcI8Q

Very bizarre slug sex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2tZLWIo9nY

On the Advantages of Skeletonlessness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-azBDt0kik

Disappearing octopus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCgtYWUybIE

Algae octopus

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/images/aculeatus_walk.mov

Mimic octopus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oQBYw6xxc

Coconut octopus

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/misc/hp_jumps/octopus/marg.html

and

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/12/octopus_carries_around_coconut_shells_as_suits_of_armour.php

and especially

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPnd_KzGdHI

Just plain bizarre octopus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VAZGtNgsk

Squid flash

http://www.oceanfootage.com/oceans/search/search//|Sequence=2075508

Cuttlefish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujRgSRYE9A

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqtfJpIz00

and (w/soundtrack)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwjKcrxOOE

bioluminescence and cephalopods

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html

Vampire Squid from Hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3CJIKKSUpg

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ZQH2Uzpew

Suicide cricket/nematomorph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ylDNMNNwaE

tardigrade

http://www.baertierchen.de/sweets_e.html

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho2sPvza0oA

Spider drugs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

barnacle sex

http://publishing.royalsociety.org/media/proceedings_b/Barnacle%20copulation.wmv

barnacle sex in silly music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7o6ytz_LM

giant centipede catches bat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROVfmY3NTA

Colbert learns of tongue-eating isopods

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/257752/december-07-2009/craziest-f--king-thing-i-ve-ever-heard---tongue-eating-parasite

really weird insect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ZGFrdbbBA

bees cook giant hornet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc

assorted marine invertebrates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnStTpupI2s

Antarctic scavengers @ dead seal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG17TsgV_qI

swimming sea cucumber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PdRt31FqDc

hagfish slime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2EOP3ohnE

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRr_MrjebA

(slime at about 3:45)

goblin shark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRSlnJ1rA4

walking catfish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ilc_CEW2k

moray jaws

http://pharyngula.org/images/moray_sm.mov

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrMFPkpxe2Y

amazing fish jaws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbGILi8p5Y8

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDU4CQWXaNY

anglerfish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RitJe16c3sM

psychedic hopping frogfish

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090227-psychedelic-fish-video-vin.html

barreleye fish (with transparent skull)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU

or:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/index.html

bullfrogs eat—or try to, anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKcztOR6UYM

basilisk lizard runs on water—seriously!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-sAUSmkfk

slo-mo hummingbird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vjYTXgIJw

incredible flyng penguins*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

giant explosive corkscrew duck penis (you were warned)

http://www.youtubevimeo.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR48342932

bats fly, hover, walk & gallop

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/

dolphins blowing amazing bubbles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVgXJ55G6Y

giraffe fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8

nicotinic synapses (#7)

http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2007/show/index.html

Stanford students rap on chemical synapses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZundDVPIYw

Pinky & The Brain re brain anatomy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li5nMsXg1Lk

split brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLzP1VCANo

Stanford students rap on the autonomic NS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XnHtklFjI

Rube Goldberg animation (a metaphor for the physiological process of muscle contraction)

http://producten.hema.nl/

(let it load, then wait for it…)

A real Rube Goldberg machine…incredible

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c

childbirth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xath6kOf0NE

*just kidding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhDsojoqk8