random samplings of a restless mind scanning life's canopy
... well, the new series Great Migrations begins on said television channel tomorrow, in what's being rolled out as a global event. The migrations themselves have been ongoing spectacularly (and often spectacularly unnoticed by us) for a while now. If you want to see some fantastic footage of a variety of animals migrating through different places, on land, in the water, through the air, across the planet - get ready to see it in a typically televisual National Geographic special. After weeks of wanting to watch it but being distracted by various other things, I finally started on my preview discs last night, and will share my reviews here soon as I work my way through them. For now, let me just whet your appetite with a clip of one of the segments from the first episode "Born to Move" that set my mouth watering - ok, it is visually appetizing, but I also I happened to be watching it with a friend who is a seafood enthusiast from India's left coast - and we both wondered if the remoteness of the island where these critters occur has saved them from humanity's never-satiated appetites:
I'm a reconciliation ecologist studying the responses of wildlife to human influences through an evolutionary lens. I seek ways to apply evolutionary ecology towards reconciling biodiversity conservation with human development. Also a father of two girls; photographer; birdwatcher; bookworm; cinephile; and explorer of the internets.
I'm a reconciliation ecologist studying the responses of wildlife to human influences through an evolutionary lens. I seek ways to apply evolutionary ecology towards reconciling biodiversity conservation with human development. Also a father of two girls; photographer; birdwatcher; bookworm; cinephile; and explorer of the internets.
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