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VIDEO CLIPS
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Anhinga
24.330MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Anhingas (Anhinga anhinga) seem a bit awkward on land but they are graceful and amazingly effective aquatic predators in the water.
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Anhinga
25.287MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Anhingas (Anhinga anhinga) seem a bit awkward on land but they are graceful and amazingly effective aquatic predators in the water.
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Ant
7.573MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Popular belief is that the ants protect the host Acacia from herbivory. Well, this is not always true. These herbivores seem to have "a scent" that protects them from being attacked by the ants. The herbivores probably protect themselves from predators such as birds by 1) looking like thorns and from ants 2) by smelling like ants. Amazing!
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Ant
11.198MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Army Ants.
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Ant
3.501MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Bullet Ants (Paraponera sp.) have a nasty reputation.
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Ant
7.108MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Tropical rainforests are famous for the many fascinating symbiotic relationships that have evolved over millions of years. Acacia sp. trees have developed an intimate relationship with a a small 6 mm long ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea).The trees provide the ants with a place to live and eat while the ants enthusiastically protect the trees from herbivores and vines. In this clip, Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species.
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Ant
4.339MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Leaf cutters remove an incredible amount of biomass in tropical forests. Some of these ants are defoliating a leaf while another colony is moving up and down a tree trunk with their booty, Arenal Volcano, secondary forest.
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Ant
6.123MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
At Corcovado, an amazing amount of leaf biomass is removed daily from surrounding vegetation.
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Ant
2.409MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Check out the hitchhiker leaf cutter ants, Corcovado.
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Ant
4.418MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Author's frantic camera movement matches the frenzy of the Leaf Cutter harvest. Note the soldier ants moving with the column, Corcovado.
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Ant
7.108MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species - Part I
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Ant
3.824MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Pseudomyrmex ferruginea carefully attend to the Beltian Bodies of their host Acacia species - Part II
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Ant
6.956MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Ants at the sweet spot - nectaries, at the base of adjoining thorns, reward the ants.
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Ant
5.297MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Leaft cutter ants - why do the ants curl their abdomens beneath them? Could they be leaving Identification trails?
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Aphid
2.342MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Walking Aphids.
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Bar Jack
2.410MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A school of bar jack (Caranx ruber) at Bamboo Point, San Salvador, Bahamas.
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Barracuda
1.686MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Great barracuda underwater
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Bat
1.522MB AVI View Movie
Pelotes Island Nature Preserve
A short movie about bats with commentary on bat's wings
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Bat
14.111MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
At Corcovado, this huge Garlic Tree is hollow inside and is large enough for us to venture inside. There were plenty of Bats roosting in the interior of the tree.
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Bat
10.462MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Nine Long-nosed bats (Rhynchonycteris naso) roost in a tree in Corcovado. Two of the females have babies.
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Bear
11.684MB MOV View Movie
The Living Schoolbook - The Cyberzoo project
Kodiak Bear at the Utica Zoo
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Bee
4.078MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A perspective of the Blue Bees.
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Three-Wattled Bellbird
1.850MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A male three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata).
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Black Guan
7.532MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor) in Monteverde Preserve.
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Black Guan
1.579MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor) in Monteverde Preserve.
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Blue Chromis
4.050MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Blue Chromis (Chromis cyanea) feeding in the water column above the massive coral heads. Crinoid (Davidaster rubiginosa) appendages protruded from interstitial spaces.
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Blue Chromis
8.386MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
These Blue Chromis (Chromis cyanea) are feeding on plankton in the water column above the coral heads.
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Blue Tang
4.503MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Blue Tangs (Acanthurus coerulatus) seemed to travel around in huge gangs!
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Boar
4.694MB MOV View Movie
The Living Schoolbook - The Cyberzoo project
Wild Boar at Utica Zoo
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Booby
1.237MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A Brown-Footed Booby (Sula leucogaster)
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Brown Noddy
5.231MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Brown Noddies, fearless in the protection of their nests.
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Brown Noddy
6.757MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) nests.
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Butterfly fish
8.869MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A Banded Butterfly (Chaetodon striatus) Feeds on Snaphot Reef, San Salvador.
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Capuchin Monkey
7.713MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A White-faced capuchin (Cebus capucinus) troop moved through the Monteverde Preserve.
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Capuchin Monkey
9.851MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
White-faced capuchins -the old, seemingly wise, group leader displays while a pair of monkeys groom one another in Corcovado National Park.
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Capuchin Monkey
3.933MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
White-faced capuchin monkeys move through the Canopy in Corcovado National Park.
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