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Serengeti: Nature’s Living Laboratory

This film explores the foundational research in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, that uncovered many of the ecological principles that govern how animal populations and communities are regulated.

Ecology
Short Films
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

From Ants to Grizzlies: A General Rule for Saving Biodiversity

This film explores the species-area relationship, a general ecological rule that describes how the number of species in a habitat changes with area, and shows how it has been applied to the conservation of protected areas.

Ecology
Environmental Science
Short Films
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Can a Fungus Save Plants from Global Warming?

This short video explores how the symbiotic relationship between certain plants and fungi allows these organisms to survive in very hot temperatures.

Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Environmental Science
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Termites Digest Wood Thanks to Microbes

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.

Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Niche Partitioning

This video introduces the concept of niche partitioning with examples drawn from the African savanna.

Anatomy & Physiology
Ecology
Clips
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Niche Partitioning and Species Coexistence

This video describes the cutting-edge method of DNA metabarcoding and how it is used to study how animals partition resources in a shared habitat.

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ecology
Science Practices
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Liz Hadly Tracks the Impact of Climate Change in Yellowstone

This video follows biologist Liz Hadly in Yellowstone National Park as she discusses how ecosystems are threatened by warming temperatures.

Ecology
Environmental Science
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Coral Bleaching

This animation zooms into a coral reef to explore the tiny animals that build reefs, the photosynthetic algae inside their cells, and the damaging process of coral bleaching.

Cell Biology
Microbiology
Environmental Science
Animations
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Animated Life: Seeing the Invisible

This animated short video celebrates 17th-century citizen-scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discoveries of microbes changed our view of the biological world.

Microbiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Malaria: Human Host

This animation shows how the malaria parasite develops inside a human and eventually causes disease.

Microbiology
Animations
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College