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Animal Behavior

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A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.

Man in a Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Staff polo shirt speaks to us in front of a manatee habitat.

Microscopic photo of a louse crawling along a single strand of hair.

Computer rendering of a kangaroo rat skeleton showing its arched spine and large skull.

Closeup of red ants crawling across the dirt, each carrying a small white object.

Closeup of a sand pit with a slight depression. A small shiny oval object is visible in the center.

Wide shot of a partly cloudy sky with a falcon flying through the air in the distance.

Closeup of a wasp with a black body, short antennas and transparent wings.

Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.

Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.

Map of North and Central America. Different areas of the map are highlighted to indicate the habitat areas and 5 birds are superimposed on the map. The highlighted areas are concentrated in central Mexico, the west coast of the United states, and much of Canada and Alaska. Caption: they changed eye color from yellow to dark.

A small bird perched on a person's hand. It is gay with some brown on the wings. Caption: It's much more olive-gray, duskier gray on the head.

A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.

Still image from: Gopher Tortoise: Secrets of the Burrow

Man wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap sits next to a person who has their back towards us. They sit in an open vehicle in the Serengeti. In the distance is a group of wild animals.

Man sits in a room as he talks to us. There are bookshelves around him with books, pictures, and different knick-knacks like a Space Shuttle, mini dinosaur skeletons, a Gundam toy, and more.

View of the University of California, Berkeley’s Football stadium. Text reads, “Berkeley, California.”

Man sits and talks to us in a room filled with different lighting equipment and tools.

View of an Oregon forest with mossy ground and light peeking out from the trees.

Still image from: In the Wild With Bears

Dog laying at the front of a doghouse with a sign attached with Caption: sad dog. Food bowl is upside down by his head, chain attached to the ground and the dog. Caption: He's on a short chain.

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Charles Henry Turner's Study of Bees

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Equine Therapy for the Mental Well-Being of Children

A piece of coral with a hole in it, a spiral shell with a point, and a sponge. Caption: There are different tools for different "porpoises."

Three jellyfish of various sizes with ribbon-like and long, straight tentacles. Caption: Well, it appears one creature is a step ahead of us.

Close up of the upper half of a shrimp surrounded by plant life and nestled in some rocks. Caption: but each individual had its own unique voice.

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do People Have Pets?

Still image from: Overview: Want to Solve Wildfires and Drought? Leave it to Beavers!

Still image from: Overview: What Are Wild Coyotes Doing in the Big City?

Still image from: Overview: Why Are There 30 Million Horseshoe Crabs on This East Coast Beach?

Man in suit and bowtie with a blackboard behind him. Blackboard shows two sets of birds in cages, one with lights, one without. Caption: This pioneering experiment would make Rowan famous.

Wolf in natural habitat. Caption: allowing steady pursuit of prey over long distances.

Bird with white belly, dark back and wings perched on a branch in a thicket. Caption: People are more like birds than we thought.

Mountain lion in a tree. Caption: They are hard to study.

Monarch butterflies on foliage. Caption: In monarchs, they study a parasite.

A light blue and white stripped caterpillar on a person's finger. Caption: (male) This little guy can grip, hold, and move.

A gray eel. National Aquarium. Caption: an electric eel can generate enough current to stun its prey.

Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species

Small translucent speckled animal nestled on pebbles. Caption: but the Hawaiian bobtail squid is a master of disguise.

Earthworm in a person's hand. Caption: are actually invasive species.

A line of ants carrying pieces of leaf larger than their bodies. Caption: leafcutter ants maintain a complex society.

Two monkeys in a cage. Caption: (narrator) Our language skills sets us apart from our primate cousins.

Bees in a hive. They have identifying chips glued to their back. One bee is larger than the rest and has bright colored glue affixing the chip. Caption: (male) The queen is well-known, but doesn’t run the show.

Primate hanging from a rope. Caption: how our distant ape cousins watch and learn.

Lizard walking in a clear Plexiglas box. Caption: This is a sandfish, and his slithering moves

Small turtle held in a person's hands. Caption: studies sea turtles that are programmed from birth

A person in a white suit, hat with mesh face covering, and gloves that come past the forearm. Caption: Lets put the gloves on to finish off the complete outfit.

Large grey bird perched on the edge of a cage door. Caption: (male narrator) This is Griffin, an African grey parrot.

Small furry animal perched on two legs in woody scrub with no leaves. Caption: This is the Arctic ground squirrel.

Red, black, and white snakes in a tube. People in white lab coats and gloves are in the background. Caption: They can go many places things with arms and legs can't.

Fish with a suction cup at the mouth area holding on to a nearly vertical surface. Caption: and suction cup that holds to the surface.

Model of a human head being brushed by whiskers attached to wires protruding from a metal post. Caption: by a set of artificial wire whiskers,

Person holding a dragonfly between their fingers. Caption: (narrator) It's not easy to catch a dragonfly.

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2208)

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rose Pest Solutions Tour

Cartoon of a group of large cat-like animals with two protruding fangs. Caption: (narrator) This tells us a little about the life of baby saber-tooths.

Bird perched in a tree. Caption: That would be evidence of habitat adaptation.

A walrus poking its head out of ice water. Caption: (female) It's neat to see something so big, so caring.

Closeup of a bird on a branch. The bird has a light-colored body and a dark head. Caption: where they're evolving right before our eyes,

Man wearing a black Columbus Zoo polo speaks to us as he stands in front of an ostrich enclosure. Text reads, "Columbus Zoo."

Closeup of two gibbons hanging from the branches of a bare tree trunk.