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Hellbent to Return
The hellbender is a giant, aquatic salamander native to much of the eastern and central US-but it is in deep trouble. Populations across their range have plummeted, but a parntership in southern Indiana has made impressive strides in restoring these amazing giants.
Written, filmed, and edited by Zach Truelock. Animation by John Buffington, and editing assistance provided by Andrew Hoffman.
Thanks to Nick Burgmeier, Shelby Royal, and Dr. Rod Williams for their assistance and dedication to saving this endangered species. Check out ag.purdue.edu/department/extension/hellbender/index.html for more info on this project, and ways you can help.
Photos of cover crops and riaprian buffers used under public domain or under creative commons-attribution 2.
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Music-"Ebbs and Flows" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Is the Streamside Salamander a Valid Species?
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The highly localized streamside salamander is nearly identical to its more broadly distributed relative, the small-mouthed salamander. How can we be certain they are different and what is a "species"? A special thanks to researchers at the Jezcova lab of Miami University for their assistance and valuable contributions to this video! Attributions: - Andrew Hoffman (Host, Writer, Editor) - Zach T...
Finding a Timber Rattlesnake in Indiana!
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Most people don't think of rattlesnakes when they think of Indiana, but the hills of southern Indiana are home to the incredible timber rattlesnake; and we are on a mission to see one! Music: High Noon by Patrick Warren (licensed through IMovie) Jazzy Frenchy by Benjamin Tissot (Bensound.com) Badass by Benjamin Tissot (Bensound.com) Once Again by Benjamin Tissot (Bensound.com)
Looking for Eastern Garter Snakes in the Garden!
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Eastern Garter Snakes are the most common snakes you might find in your garden. In this video we get up close to these snakes in the garden and find out what they are up to! Music: Funky Suspense by Benjamin Tissot (Bensound.com)
Finding Rough Green Snakes in Trees at Night
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We venture into the remote hills of southern Indiana, looking for rough green snakes in trees at night! If you've ever wondered where snakes sleep or if snakes can climb trees, then you've got to check out this video! Music: - Freedom by Roa - Tenderness by Benjamin Tissot (Bensound.com)
Can we Save Frosted Flatwoods Salamanders?
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The frosted flatwoods salamander is critically endangered and is quickly becoming the rarest salamander in North America. Without fire, this salamander will go extinct; watch to find out more! Please consider donating to the organizations below to aid in its recovery! - amphibianfoundation.org/index.php/donations - wildlifeflorida.org/donations/conserving-floridas-wildlife/#!/donation/checkout ...
Sea Creatures of the Florida Gulf
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Unwind from a stressful day with this 2min video of the creatures living underwater in shallows along the Gulf Coast of Florida. Music from “Babylon” by Kevin McLeod Filmed by Zach Truelock
Huge Spider Protects her Nest!
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Some spider moms guard their babies and one kind of spider even builds a nursery for them. Join me as I search for the nursery web spider! Music from Aether by Darren King, licensed through IMovie (August, 2021)
How Horseshoe Crabs Save Lives!
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Ever wonder how vaccines are tested to ensure they are safe? In this video, we look at how horseshoe crab blood plays a key role in making vaccines safe and why horseshoe crabs save lives! Media Credits: Music: Ancient Winds Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Virus animation, vaccine, and medical lab f...
MILLIONS of Periodical Cicadas!
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Does the idea of MILLIONS of periodical cicadas flying around you seem scary? We get up close and personal with emerging periodical cicadas to help you feel more okay with these noisy insects! Music from www.bensound.com/
Cicada Safari with Dr. Gene Kritski!
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We meet up with Dr. Gene Kritsky to showcase his Cicada Safari app that lets anyone contribute to science as a citizen scientist by documenting the emergence of periodical cicadas! Huge thanks to Dr. Gene Kritsky for taking time to interview with us! Check out his website to learn more about his research: genekritsky.com/ Produced and hosted by Andrew Hoffman Animation by John Buffington Edited...
100+ Spotted Salamanders in a Vernal Pool!
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We used an underwater camera to see over 100 spotted salamanders swimming in a vernal pool at night during their spring breeding season! Intro/outro music from "Under the Sun" by DIIV, Licensed through IMovie Underwater music from "Babylon" by Kevin MacLeod, Public Domain
Hundreds of Streamside Salamander Eggs Under Rock!
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The Streamside Salamander is a special salamander that lives only in the Bluegrass Region of North America and, in this video, we use underwater cameras to give you a glimpse into its secret life! Intro/outro music from "Under the Sun" by DIIV, licensed through IMovie Underwater music from "Babylon" by Kevin MacLeod, Public Domain
50+ Jefferson Salamanders Trapped in Frozen Pond!
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Jefferson Salamanders lay eggs in ponds during the winter, but what happens when these ponds freeze, trapping them inside? We use an underwater camera to see how 50 salamanders survive under the ice. Intro/outro music from "Under the Sun" by DIIV, licensed through IMovie Underwater music from "Babylon" by Kevin MacLeod, Public Domain
Are Wild Animals Dangerous?
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Wild animals can be large, powerful, or venomous but are they dangerous to us? In this video we answer this question and break down the facts on why you don't have to be afraid to walk in the woods! Music: "Under the Sun" by DIIV; Licensed through IMovie. *All video and images of large mammals are in the public domain and mostly filmed by National Park Service employees at Yellowstone National ...
Wild Animals of the Mingo Wilderness Swamps
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Wild Animals of the Mingo Wilderness Swamps
Wild Creatures of Missouri's Hercules Glades
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Wild Creatures of Missouri's Hercules Glades
What is Wilderness?
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What is Wilderness?
Marbled Salamanders are Protective Mothers!
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Marbled Salamanders are Protective Mothers!
Hunting for Wolf Spiders!
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Hunting for Wolf Spiders!
How to Find a Salamander!
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How to Find a Salamander!
Weird Creek Creatures Living Under Rocks!
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Weird Creek Creatures Living Under Rocks!
How do Timber Rattlesnakes Hunt?
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How do Timber Rattlesnakes Hunt?
Timber Rattlesnakes are Great Mothers!
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Timber Rattlesnakes are Great Mothers!
Why do Timber RATTLESNAKES FIGHT Each Other?
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Why do Timber RATTLESNAKES FIGHT Each Other?
The Hidden Lives of Timber Rattlesnakes
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The Hidden Lives of Timber Rattlesnakes
Life Underfoot Channel Trailer
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Life Underfoot Channel Trailer
How Does the Annual Cicada Call?
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How Does the Annual Cicada Call?
What Does the Digger Wasp Store in its Burrow?
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What Does the Digger Wasp Store in its Burrow?
A Rove Beetle that Eats Maggots!
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A Rove Beetle that Eats Maggots!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @rileysanesh9238
    @rileysanesh9238 12 годин тому

    I like the male garter’s better than the females

  • @NancyGodwin-q1t
    @NancyGodwin-q1t 26 днів тому

    watched the video many times ! 😅

  • @NancyGodwin-q1t
    @NancyGodwin-q1t 26 днів тому

    excellent information ! Enjoyed watching ! 🎉

  • @dotdashdotdash
    @dotdashdotdash Місяць тому

    Make some new videos

  • @CreatingContent-ment
    @CreatingContent-ment 2 місяці тому

    I'm showing this video this week to my Budding Naturalists and Junior Naturalists classes as part of our watersheds and aquatic life units. Thank you for creating and sharing your awesome work!

  • @itzmefelon
    @itzmefelon 2 місяці тому

    Just found one outside my house. I guess she just came out the ground getting ready for winter-?

  • @BleydXVI
    @BleydXVI 2 місяці тому

    "Motherhood may not be the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of spiders" I grew up with Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, so it's at least up there

  • @jonmurphy4889
    @jonmurphy4889 3 місяці тому

    My favorites I had so many pet frogs as a kid. My childhood home had a huge swamp right next to it that's where I spent most of my youth walking around in my Dad's oversized waders😂👍👍🤙

  • @whoopinyou
    @whoopinyou 3 місяці тому

    Cool video, subscribed

  • @leohedrick1624
    @leohedrick1624 3 місяці тому

    I just don’t like them on my bed

  • @robertrlkatz6890
    @robertrlkatz6890 3 місяці тому

    This is not the 'Daddy Long Leg" that are the venomous ones, they are talking about the Cellar Spider which is venomous and is also called Daddy Long Leg but can't bite because its fangs are too short.

  • @zachariascarroll5195
    @zachariascarroll5195 3 місяці тому

    What area are you in? Just saw a 5 ft full grown male on the top of browning mountain

  • @LandonLikesBullfrogs
    @LandonLikesBullfrogs 3 місяці тому

    I love the call of the bullfrog at 1:56

  • @Susiecat24
    @Susiecat24 3 місяці тому

    I love them even as a little girl I thought they were so cool.

  • @PiperNana
    @PiperNana 4 місяці тому

    We had a swarm of them in our front yard today. Have not witnessed this before. Maybe our soil is changing, no idea.

  • @الكابتنيوسفالموسوي
    @الكابتنيوسفالموسوي 4 місяці тому

    عندي صورك عنكبوت غريب كيف ارسلها لك

  • @Leon1982db
    @Leon1982db 4 місяці тому

    They're super chill 😎.

  • @wotan10950
    @wotan10950 4 місяці тому

    Just like many people, I have a fear of snakes. Nonetheless, I live in a fairly rural area (unbelievably, only one hour from New York City!), and we get all kinds of wildlife here: bears, foxes, turtles, turkeys, deer, mice, and snakes. I see a lot of garter snakes during the warm seasons but, although they give me the frights, I know they’re very good for the environment. So I just tell them, “You go your way, and I’ll go mine!” My dogs are very curious when they find them, but they instinctively know to stay away. I filmed this recent encounter with one of my dogs ua-cam.com/users/shortsMDKXtI_AEsI?si=WPxIczhxl0oq41yJ

  • @artgoat
    @artgoat 4 місяці тому

    Growing up in Tulsa, we always called them "eyed elaters." I don't really know where the name came from, except perhaps "elateridae" being the family name for click beetles. They were unique, as most of the click beetles in Oklahoma were less than an inch long, and then there was this Jurassic beast, many times larger. It was always a joy to find one.

  • @beatricemendez109
    @beatricemendez109 4 місяці тому

    Thank you @lifeunderfoot4805 for posting this. It was very informative! I love seeing and hearing the green frogs that visit our koi pond.

  • @happysawfish
    @happysawfish 4 місяці тому

    Excellent. Turn Comments ON on the Ratsnake video. It's a great video, great camera work. We can all learn things from the comments.

  • @makrgo26
    @makrgo26 4 місяці тому

    Just spotted some in a school garden, big suckers

  • @earthworm7346
    @earthworm7346 4 місяці тому

    I have 1 or 2 in the yard. I need more.

  • @frankytrevor7
    @frankytrevor7 5 місяців тому

    worst video

  • @MalibuPlantGirl
    @MalibuPlantGirl 5 місяців тому

    Every year, these guys swarm the two oak trees in my backyard! I love watching them zoom around 💚 they are such dopey little beetles lol

  • @WenjingZhou-o6h
    @WenjingZhou-o6h 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for the video! I moved to San Diego a few months ago and was terrified by these big buzzing bugs. Good to know that they don't bite and hopefully this info will let my fear go.

    • @hurricanerich17
      @hurricanerich17 4 місяці тому

      Born and raised in San Diego (Oak Park) I literally just came in the house from taking my dog out in the backyard and searched this vid because they're everywhere right now 😂 I grew up catching them and I can tell you they're completely harmless lol if you observe them long enough you'll likely see them repeatedly crashing into your house, flipping over onto their back, and needed your assistance to fly again 😅

  • @121790tyler
    @121790tyler 5 місяців тому

    There in my barn every year guess they dont sting unless they feel rhere nest is threatend i even go in get my mower and drive it out and then out it up when im done. Even seen one before dragging a katydid in the hole

  • @beeezybone
    @beeezybone 5 місяців тому

    I hate these bugs so much. The sound of the wings terrifies me and I always run away when they get close

    • @cesar6479
      @cesar6479 4 місяці тому

      Ik at first they seem terrifying but they're really nice and docile lil beetles.

    • @castalt
      @castalt 4 місяці тому

      @@cesar6479naw…I don’t care if they docile…. they lowkey nasty asl….

  • @robert767
    @robert767 5 місяців тому

    There is reason to try to save something that will kill you

  • @kalyandakua2767
    @kalyandakua2767 5 місяців тому

    Pehla wala wasp insect hai or dusra wala grass hopper koi sathi Nehi . Jab unka egg Hacht hoga to khake bada hone kelie. Simple sa fanda hai khana store kr raha hai kids kelie😊

  • @omaimaali5969
    @omaimaali5969 5 місяців тому

    I have fig trees and I have those beetles too. Unfortunately, they eat all my figs and apricots. I don't like them at all. They are very harmful.

  • @Wertyber
    @Wertyber 5 місяців тому

    Butcher's Creek

  • @AlexandersebastianCuevas
    @AlexandersebastianCuevas 5 місяців тому

    Cool my dad collected these in the 80s all the time as pets

  • @ferengiprofiteer9145
    @ferengiprofiteer9145 5 місяців тому

    I have a big mature timber on my place. I named him Sergeant Major because I'd never seen so many chevrons.

  • @haywardjeblomey6505
    @haywardjeblomey6505 5 місяців тому

    They are klutzes

  • @cliffpeebles9705
    @cliffpeebles9705 5 місяців тому

    Kentucky Afield has several videos on UA-cam about their efforts to restore the Hellbender populations. I remember the first time I saw one of these as a kid turning over rocks in a creek. I thought, "What the hell is that"?

  • @livestrong456
    @livestrong456 5 місяців тому

    Amen. A summer without their beautiful sound would be bad

  • @veritas6466
    @veritas6466 5 місяців тому

    Turns out Garter snakes, like the Hognose are both rear fanged venomous.

  • @dburt0021
    @dburt0021 5 місяців тому

    Definitely once captive. The calcium deficiency says it all. This guy knows his turtles.

  • @oscargrouch7962
    @oscargrouch7962 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for correctly saying "southern Ohio". Most people, including self-proclaimed "educated" people, would have incorrectly said "South Ohio".

  • @Lotsofpretzels287
    @Lotsofpretzels287 6 місяців тому

    The buzzy sound makes me itch 😭 😭

  • @HighAspect
    @HighAspect 6 місяців тому

    I have hundreds of these flying around in my backyard in Ohio. Would like to get rid of them

  • @misscandy84
    @misscandy84 6 місяців тому

    my man thought we came across one sais no sweety satatoga springs ny do not have rattlers there up in mountains

  • @misscandy84
    @misscandy84 6 місяців тому

    there pretty but same time can kill a person

  • @misscandy84
    @misscandy84 6 місяців тому

    gross gross evil things

  • @mzfish13
    @mzfish13 6 місяців тому

    I got some as pets

  • @PeachyFairyFox
    @PeachyFairyFox 6 місяців тому

    These are my favourite spiders.

  • @daviid6iix
    @daviid6iix 6 місяців тому

    just caught one tonight!!! was looking for wolf spiders and saw it’s eyes reflecting off my flashlight

  • @BasedBidoof
    @BasedBidoof 6 місяців тому

    Interesting. I saw one of these on a oak tree that was dead yesterday, couldn't get it out of my mind without knowing what it was. Makes sense that it was there, based off what you said

  • @Belows682
    @Belows682 6 місяців тому

    Hey man. I just found your video on timber rattlesnakes are not aggressive and just wanted to thank you for the video. It was a great showing of the nature of snakes and how we shouldnt be so fearful of, and aggressive towards them. Those wete some beautiful snakes you sbowed us and i think its awesome. Im heading to the seward mountains Cold river loop tomorrow and hope to see plenty of wildlife. Be well.