Most Amazing Video Scene ever Witnessed

[sleeepy2]

@PapSett

The most amazing nature show I have ever seen , and one that never fails to bring tears to my eyes , was about a herd of elephants in a drought. They had very little to eat, and had to travel miles and miles to drink from a tiny, stagnent pool.

Any documentary where drought season rolls in, I change the channel. At least until the rainy season begins again.

The video that popped my noodle was Attenborough’s The Secret Lives Of Plants. I can’t remember all the details, but it was a bee crawling inside a flower, digging for pollen, and he friggin’ flower leans in and strokes the bee’s back! It was a stamen, or some other flowery appendage, and stroking it’s back released pollen from other flowers, or something like that. I wasn’t really listening to the narration, I was completely freaked out! This wasn’t a slow motion movement, it was real time, and there was something very unsettling and unexpected at seeing a plant move like that. It got me thinking in a whole new way about the eleventy billion tons of plant life all around me!

[Mahaloth]

@Case Sensitive

Nitpick: the plural of “octopus” is octopods or octapoda, not octopii. Greek, not Latin. Still pretty funny, though.

Merriam-Webster says the correct plural is either “octopuses” or “octopi”.

[Shalmanese]

I’ve seen a video of

two swedish boys playing around in a barn. One sticks a giant rubber cap over his head, sticks his head completely into a sheeps ass and then proceeds to be dragged around the barn by the sheep.

sniff, it was beautiful.

[BobLibDem]

@Shalmanese

I’ve seen a video of

two swedish boys playing around in a barn. One sticks a giant rubber cap over his head, sticks his head completely into a sheeps ass and then proceeds to be dragged around the barn by the sheep.

sniff, it was beautiful.

I disagree- sounds like criminal animal abuse to me.

[Scissorjack]

@Mahaloth

Merriam-Webster says the correct plural is either “octopuses” or “octopi”.

Merriam-Webster is wrong: octopuses will do in a pinch, but no way is octopi correct.

[Scissorjack]

@Case Sensitive

Merriam-Webster is wrong: octopuses will do in a pinch, but no way is octopi correct.

And here’s my proof. The George MacDonald Fraser quote is particularly apt. Funny, too.

[Giant_Spongess]

I was watching one of those “Most Extremely Awesome Amazing Videos EVARR!” shows last night and there was a video of a dude who got sucked into a jet engine and survived. He crawled back out after they stopped the engine with a lot of bruises and maybe a broken arm. That’s pretty amazing.

[FriarTed]

@BobLibDem

I disagree- sounds like criminal animal abuse to me.

I’d definitely want those boys seen by a psychiatrist…

but damned if I’m not still laughing!

[elelle]

It’s very interesting to see how this thread is kinda divided in WOW observation: part really amazing Nature is a hard place to be, and then, Nature has some tender examples of cooperation. I like em all, was really wowed by the alligator/python photo, and always love the octopus world.

This coming is from direct obsevation, falling in the tender cooperation mode, I really wished I’d filmed it on video, did get stills, though.

A recuperating hybrid wild duck (white, but the size of a Mallard) was brought to the wildlife rehab shelter I worked at. He had a broken wing, and was brought from Chincoteague, VA, down to our shelter in NC by some well-meaning vacationers, who couldn’t find aid for him there. After a good four months of mending, I took the duck back up to his homeland to be released, a five hour drive.

Upon release from his carrier, the duck stretched a bit on the dock, then flew off in the opposite direction from where the other ducks were. After he got airborne and got bearings, he turned around , quacked loudly and often, and flew back into the flock he’d been separated from months before. Much commotion! He ducked into the water, under, bathing himself, swimming around and around, loud quacks as the other ducks checked him out. They seemed to recognise him.

He then proceeded to lead the other ducks, some mallards by view, many hybrids like him, up and onto their midday roosting field, which was the place he was found injured. They all settled down for their midday siesta, he was entirely welcomed.

I was amazed by this , moved to tears, and so glad I’d made the 5 hour trip to reunite this duck with his tribe. Had no idea that it really made a difference when I agreed to take him home, but he really knew he was home. The other ducks all treated him as a long lost homie, and gave him priority status in procession.

This really is a beautiful planet,often.

[Kyla]

This was on one of those Blue Planet shows from the BBC.

These two orcas had caught a baby sea lion and played this hideous game of Sea Lion Ping Pong with it, taking turns flipping the sea lion back and forth at each other. The sea lion was alive for a lot of this, and made all these horrible shrieking noises.

It was just awful. But pretty damned incredible video.

[jackelope]

@revolver_4

I’ve asked friends about this before. On National Geographic (the cable channel): <snip> a monkey struggling to get its head out of a crocodile’s mouth (he escapes). Amazing!

I saw that. And I will never, ever forget it. That was one of the most terrifying videos I’ve ever seen. They sat there for probably a minute without moving, the baboon’s head in the croc’s mouth. The baboon was trying to jam its fingers into the croc’s eyes to make it let go; no dice. Finally the other baboons ran down and attacked the croc as well, and it let go.

The tension was amplified greatly by the narrator’s stentorian voice rumbling, “If baboons have nightmares, this is the stuff of them…” and so on.

And then we cut to a shot of mama baboon, one arm nearly severed and hanging only by a flap of skin, cradling her dead baby baboon with her remaining arm.

Wrenching scene; great filmmaking.

[TellMeI_mNotCrazy]

One of the coolest I can think of is a scene of a group of hornets taking out a colony of bees.

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

Amazing filmmaking, both artistically and technically.

[sturmhauke]

Well this is something that happened to me rather than a video. I was sitting on a rock in Yosemite, eating a sandwich after unsuccesfully attempting to reach Half Dome. Some Steller’s jays were swooping from a tree on my left down into a crevice underneath some large boulders on my right, then flying back up to the tree. That was fairly impressive to watch. After a while I paid less attention to the jays and was looking at some squirrels or something, when I felt my sandwich being tugged out of my hand. I saw a jay flash right in front of my face, carrying a piece of my sandwich away. It would have taken the whole thing if my grip had been any looser.

[Scissorjack]

Does Japanese lesbian porn count?

[Sgt.Pepper]

@TellMeI'mNotCrazy

One of the coolest I can think of is a scene of a group of hornets taking out a colony of bees.

http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

Amazing filmmaking, both artistically and technically.

Wow, that was amazing. Some of those shots were really impressive. It was such a vicious attack. Imagine the next step for the bees in the evolutionary chain to defeat or prevent these attacks. It’s like nature’s arms race.

[Sgt.Pepper]

@Sgt.Pepper

Wow, that was amazing. Some of those shots were really impressive. It was such a vicious attack. Imagine the next step for the bees in the evolutionary chain to defeat or prevent these attacks. It’s like nature’s arms race.

And sitting here reading another thread a lady bug flies out of nowhere and lands on my chest. Scared the crap right out of me. I thought a number of hornets decided to take on a larger prey in the food chain. I can hear the narrator’s voice saying “…And this will feed their young for the next few years”

[Scissorjack]

@Sgt.Pepper

Imagine the next step for the bees in the evolutionary chain to defeat or prevent these attacks.

Bees with dogs in their bums so when they buzz they shoot dogs at you?

[PunditLisa]

The video of the mile-wide F-5 tornado that hit Oklahoma in May '99 never ceases to amaze me. Holy crap, that was one hellaciously wicked twister.

[Tixenfleaz]

@Sgt.Pepper

Wow, that was amazing. Some of those shots were really impressive. It was such a vicious attack. Imagine the next step for the bees in the evolutionary chain to defeat or prevent these attacks. It’s like nature’s arms race.

A species of Japanese honeybee has already developed a defense against the hornets and it’s absolutely ingenious.

IIRC when a hornet scout locates the beehive, it releases phermones to mark the nest. The bees are warned by the phermone and somehow lure the hornet into the nest. The bees then swamp the scout and begin beating their wings. The resulting heat cooks the hornet without harming the bees. Dead bugs tell no tales.

The National Geographic special “Hornets From Hell” has a video of this as well as the successful hive attack linked above.

[Eleusis]

@Maastricht

Not on video, but worth telling. A few years ago I got lost while driving, and while trying to find my way back I passed the same stretch of road three times.

First time, there was just this stretch of road.

Second time, ten minutes later, a dead crow laid there, a bit to the side of the road. It clearly had just been hit by a car.

Third time, the crows crow-SO was agitatedly hopping around it, nudging it, oblivious to the cars passing just inches away from her. Then she shrieked and flew away.

Sad. That reminds me of this photoessay depicting barn swallows in Taiwan.