Whooping Cranes
Whooping crane project at Patuxent National Wildlife health center, with interview of Dr. John French, discussing health, exercises, diet and training of these birds once on the brink of extinction....

Hoary Bat Animation
Seasonal distribution of hoary bats. Gaining a better understanding of the seasonal migration patterns of bats affected by wind turbines could help biologists and wind energy developers find ways to reduce bat fatalities at turbines....

Constrictor Snakes (B-roll)
Video footage (B-roll) of Everglades National Park biologists hunting and capturing a Burmese Python in Florida. Transcript available soon....

Hatching of a Mojave Desert Tortoise
This four minute short movie depicts the hatching of a Mojave Desert Tortoise. This is the continuation of a sixty million year process for this threatened species. One of the surprising moments in the movie is when the hatchling tumbles from its shell and is propped up by its yolk. This is an evolu...

CoreCast—Radar is for the Birds
Doppler radar can be used for more than predicting the weather—it can be used to record migrating birds!...

Asian Swamp Eels: Predation on Juvenile Largemouth Bass
Non-native or introduced populations of Asian Swamp Eels (family: Synbranchidae) exist in the wild in parts of Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii. This video shows predatory behavior of captive individuals. Swamp eels shown feeding in this video include two different species, the first (tentatively iden...

Anemones
An unidentified large white anemone densely populates thinly-sedimented goethite (iron oxide) slab rock, the fundamental Viosca Knoll substrate for attachment of sessile particulate-feeding invertebrates....

Bamboo Anemones
Tall bamboo coral trees (Keratoisis flexibilis) are surrounded by fields of unidentified large white anemones and orange-pink flytrap anemones (Actinoscyphia saginata). Small white 'gooseberry' anemones find a feeding perch right on the bamboo coral branches....

Barrelfish (Hyperoglyphe perciformis)
Much like Amberjacks on shallow reefs, fast and agile Barrelfish (Hyperoglyphe perciformis) patrol deep reefs in schools, preying upon squid, jellyfish, and small fishes....

Caristius Salp
Enormous fins spread wide enable the manefish (Caristius sp, probably C. maderensis) to drift motionlessly in midwater, here in the camouflaging company of a luminescent colonial salp. This specimen is the first record of the species in the Gulf of Mexico....

Chemo Seep Biotope
Areas of active, if subdued, hydrocarbon seeps are notably devoid of large sessile invertebrates. A fluffy gray biofilm coats the underlying rock, dotted with small white patches of the chemo-seep-associated bacteria Beggatoia....

Chemo Tubeworms
Viosca Knoll is an elevated salt dome with dormant and active chemo-seeps. Where hydrocarbons are actively escaping from the substrate, dense clusters of tightly entwined vestimentiferan tubeworms grow. As the submersible approaches, it disturbs a Blackbelly Rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus), and...

Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus)
Making a burrow in the stony base of Lophelia bushes, a 1.5 m long Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus) emerges from its hiding place to patrol its territory. It preys upon smaller fishes....

Coral Sampling
Small sprigs of glass coral are snipped off by the submersible's manipulator and transferred to a multi-chambered sampler for bacterial and genetic analyses. Attracted by the disturbance, a large Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus) then a Snowy Grouper (Epinephelus niveatus), investigates the scene....

Dandelion Anemones
A dense cluster of unidentified dandelion-like anemones, intertwined with spiral vestimentiferan tubeworms waves back and forth in the current. The tight cluster of small anemones sits among a field of larger white anemones....

Lophelia Coral Thicket
Small Lophelia sprigs proliferate into a dense mass of white living branches, 1-2 m tall. Over time, groups of coral bushes coalesce to form massive reefs hundreds of meters across. Unlike shallow reefs built by many stony coral species, Lophelia pertusa reefs are generally formed by this single dom...

Ragged-Tooth Shark (Odontaspis ferox)
A true deep-reef denizen, the 3-4 m long female Ragged-Tooth Shark (Odontaspis ferox) navigates skillfully through Lophelia coral bushes. This specimen is only the second reported for the species in the Gulf of Mexico. The prominent notch in the first dorsal fin may be a wound received from a male d...

Rattail (Nezumia aequalis)
Not a typical inhabitant of deep-reef biotopes, the rattail (or grenadier) cruises nose-down over open substrate around the reefs, searching for small benthic prey....

Slimehead (Gephyroberyx darwini)
Hovering at the base of the reef, the reddish Slimehead (Gephyroberyx darwini), is a stealthy ambush predator....

Snowy Grouper (Epinephelus niveatus)
A characteristic predator on deep coral and rock reefs, the Snowy Grouper (Epinephelus niveatus) reaches lengths up to 1 m....