On Nature League, we explore the biology and ecology of life on Earth together and ask questions that inspire us to marvel at all things wild.
We explore the basic as well as the complex by having lesson plans, conversations with friends and other scientists, breaking down the peer-reviewed literature, and even going on walks and sharing thoughts.
I want to share my passion for life on Earth with you, and challenge ourselves to learn about, connect to, and love the natural world in what some are calling a post-natural age.
Join me, Brit Garner, to explore the amazing living systems on Earth and the mechanics that drive them.
Today I discovered Nature League from an old PBS Eons video hosted by Hank about humans' eelation with fire. I come in 2024 and now get to enjoy a vast library of videos that I know I will love. Thank you to everyone who worked at Nature League, your work is and will always be appreciated!
First off this video is great, and has a ton of information, but I want to ask, what genealogical relation do we have with sponges/invertebrates? God created Humans, animals, and all life. We are descended from Adam and Eve and we definitely are not related to any animal whatsoever. How is a slug-like creature even remotely related to us? By all means I am not trying to bash anyone, but I want to clarify something that raised a big red flag while I was watching this video.
What genealogical relation do we have to these sponges/invertebrates? God created Humans, animals, and all life, we are not related whatsoever. We are descended from Adam and Eve.
There is no balance in nature, and there never was, and there never will be. You cannot step into the same river twice. Nature simply continually adapts to ever changing conditions. And, there is no climate crisis.
She talks WAY too fast. Had to pause repeatedly to let the ideas sink in. Also, ending on a hopeful note is total BS. Check out E.O.Wilson on this topic. We are in the 6th mass extinction and insects are in the forefront. Insects, fish, birds, animals, man, goodbye.
I think it would take a LOT of fancy knowledge to change an opossum’s calcium:phosphorus needs-but it’s super cool to think about. They DO have formulated opossum kibble that takes the guesswork out, but most people prefer homemade diets for their opies. I would LOVE for opossums to live more than 3-5 years. That also probably goes back to basal metabolism. But gosh, opossum metabolism is so cool and “ancient,” that it seems like to change it we’d end up with a totally different animal that doesn’t have a cool body temp, isn’t immune to snake venom, etc.They might end up losing all of their op-awesome-ness in the process! 😂
Love this channel. The goat toy: if you give a goat access to a pedestal, it WILL climb onto it. I dunno if it’s because they want to scan the horizon for predators, or because they just want to pretend they’re a mountain goat (not a true goat…). But, I know for a fact that those big, wooden spools that hold giant wires are the number one favorite toy in a goat paddock/playground. 😊
It's weird to say you don't own an animal. I bought it with money, I'm liable for damages it causes, and I can choose to pay for it to be euthanized in a perfectly healthy condition at my whim.
Question, a lot of medicines have come from rainforest, so is the fact that rainforest _could_ hold a lot more medicines functional or hypothetical diversity?
Great question! That sort of value actually has its own name, sometimes referred to as "potential use value". Once a known entity, the label might shift, but this is the category that makes the more sense to me. Also, great observation that yes, there are many time multiple categories of values happening at once!
Thank you so much for this video! I've been volunteering at an aquarium and the name "puddingwife" has been driving me nuts; I kept asking around and NO ONE had the faintest idea what it could mean. (I mean I guess technically you don't know either, but you have plausible theories which is more than any other source I've found has). I'm going to tell everyone at work tomorrow that we might have an answer. ETA: I think there are still a few steps missing, because puddingwife wrasse are native to the south-west Atlantic
Also I think it would be possible to train a deinonychus in real life but in Jurassic Park velociraptors were more aggressive than the real life counterpart I feel like Jurassic World made that in accurate let’s just say if velociraptors from Jurassic Park we’re real we should focus more to Robert Muldoon’s experience was like than what Owen Grady said
For the record the velociraptors in Jurassic Park are real but they are based on deinonychus so what you’re looking at in Jurassic Park is not a velociraptor you’re looking at a deinonychus Wanna make that clear so people don’t think that the velociraptors artist you know fake in Jurassic Park they are real dinosaurs there just not velociraptors
I've lived in Missoula off and on now since the mid 80s, with continuous stretches of residency as long as 10-years, and quite honestly, it's no better or worse than any other place in the intermountain west, but there are a number of things people should know. The sun RARELY shines here, VERY rarely, and winters, are far-far longer than most people are will to recognize or admit. True summer, can only be found here in July and August. That's it! September brings fall, and winter typically lasts from October through May, bounded on both sides by rain and perpetually grey skies. The availability of both housing and jobs is atrocious, and the median priced home is WAY beyond the reach of most wage-earners or even many salaried professionals. Politically speaking, it's a college town, with 85-90% of the communities revenue stream coming directly or indirectly from student loan money, period! So it is populated largely by young, liberal, woke, indoctrinated, unsophisticated, shallow-minded, y- and z-gener neo-Marxists.
I thought that scientist in Jurassic Park was also a villain in one of those dumb sequels. Anyway, I love opossums, but owning one would break my heart because of the short lifespan. Cried my eyes out as a kid every time a pet rat died.😢
she is so intelligent and i love the way she thinks. i never thought about exactly how conservation would be optimized and worked out. it’s not just the animals - it’s nuanced and quite complicated. She’s terrific!!! :)🌹🌱
Back in the 1980's I worked as a veterinary technician. So I had "things" at my disposal. By accident one time, I found out that when you find a dead opossum on the road, the females might actually have live babies still in her pouch. I started going out on the roads here in Central Florida early in the morning and looking for live babies in pouches. It took time, but I learned how to tube feed tiny baby Opossums and I even kept a few hand raised babies in my apartment. They nearly all used litter boxes, ate cat food primarily with table scraps. They were ALL easily handled and never bit me once. They were GREAT little companions. Opossums don't live long, the longest I've seen was around 3 years. I'm much older now and think back on those days and feel sad every time I see an opossum dead on the road....
Blackberry is considered invasive in Ore and they do kill it making all of us un happy. The Mulberry is indiginous but there are hardly any of those. They kill and clear how patches of blackberry that they know each yr ppl pick. So now foreigners mostly from Mexico come in and pick everything before they kill everthing leaving the rest of us paying over 6.00lb for blackberry at the store. It is stupid and I hate it.
