Wired Magazine’s Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos
November 19, 2008
Nothing beats animal videos for getting students fired up about biology. From Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom to Shark Week, animal videos provide countless hours of educational entertainment. Thanks to the magic of the interweb, you can see animals in action anytime, and a great place to start is with Wired Magazine’s Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos. This collection of videos from around the web will let your students get an up-close look at hippos, lions, sharks, polar bears, and…well, a hamster.
These videos show the exciting, funny, and at times, ruthless lives of animals in the wild. Some of the videos (”Amazing Mimic Octopus Camouflage”) are more educational than others (”Hamster Eating Broccoli for the First Time”). Nevertheless, engaging your students with “Ninja Cat” may be a good warm-up for more substantial videos like “Magnets Might Repel Sharks.”
The number one video, and deservedly so, is “Battle at Kruger” which depicts a struggle between a herd of water buffalo, a pride of lions, and a pair of crocodiles. Survival of the fittest at its best. Wired’s Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos shows that the world is both a fun and dangerous place. And if nothing else, it’ll tide them over until Shark Week 2009. -BILL FERRIS
Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos via Wired.com
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