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  • Beautiful Nature
     OP - September 10, 2010, 03:31 PM
    Isn’t this enough? Just this world?
    Just this beautiful, complex
    Wonderfully unfathomable world?
    How does it so fail to hold our attention
    That we have to diminish it with the invention
    Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?

    ~ Tim Minchin, Storm

    I think there is a noble beauty to the wild world. The mournful chorus of wolves howling at the moon, voracious killer to some, sacred warrior spirit to others, both revered and despised. The majestic male lion, shaking the earth with his roar, declaring himself king of the plains, echoes from a violent and primal past. The sleek build of a wild animal on the cutting edge of life. The perfection of an animal evolved for a purpose, moulded by the senses, crafted by the razor edge of instinct. The bunched muscles of a young horse, running hard on the flats, the wind in its mane. The contours of a shark moving effortlessly with grim purpose. The dignity of an eagle on a mountain top, statuesque against the sky. The unfathomable depths that lay behind the gaze of a dolphin or a whale. A great elephant matriarch, the way she seems to carry time on her shoulders, eyes that have lived and seen and a mind that knows and never forgets.

    I thought it would be great to have a thread dedicated to the beauty of the natural world. Post your favorite wildlife clips, images, articles Smiley

    Here's one to start, one of my faves: The Night the Leopard Lay with the Baboon
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MrXM-4Ndrk

    This is actually a clip from a film called Eye of the Leopard. It tells the story of a young leopard growing up, called Lagadema (Light from the Sky). The most amazing thing is that baboons are her nemesis, her mortal enemy. They almost killed her when she was younger. They are much more dangerous to the leopard than lions or hyenas are, since they can climb trees just as good as her. And yet she is still able to show compassion and mercy at the most pure, primal and instinctual level.

    There is much to be learned from beasts.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #1 - September 10, 2010, 04:01 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqouVL0AiQ
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #2 - September 10, 2010, 04:13 PM
    good idea. I love nature as well.

    Last chance to see, is a great series. It usually has animals, and stephen fry. Two of my favorite things Smiley
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlY9GhEL7w4

    Also planet earth has to be mentioned
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5eJkjMLIRM



  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #3 - September 10, 2010, 06:21 PM
    I approve of this thread  Tongue

    I love the leopard one, that was beautiful.
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #4 - September 11, 2010, 01:24 AM
    That leopard video was very moving. sad I've watched it before on YouTube.

    Here's a video I like.  Sorry, no compassion here. Just sheer skill, strength, agility, courage, self-confidence and adaptability. Afro  Evolution has built leopards to be incredible machines.  So fuckin good at their job, i.e. killing and surviving.
    They set the standards when it comes to self-reliance. Afro

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhFmmYI_VA
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #5 - September 11, 2010, 01:28 AM
    Here's another incredible creature. The humble ant.  Very civilised creatures.  If only humans could be this civilised. whistling2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #6 - September 11, 2010, 06:06 AM
    Good stuff 001_wub
    Quote from: IsLame on September 10, 2010, 04:01 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqouVL0AiQ

    The story of Christian the lion is a classic. I'm glad that student decided to put it on YouTube one day otherwise it might have never been told. I could watch the ending again and again. So much love I might overdose.

    Quote from: burdenofbeing on September 10, 2010, 04:13 PM

    Last chance to see, is a great series. It usually has animals, and stephen fry. Two of my favorite things Smiley
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlY9GhEL7w4


    Same here. Stephen Fry is one of my favorite people. I could listen to his voice for hours.

    I think this was part of that same series but I'm not 100% sure:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A7uFSbRJ5w

    Poor guy lol.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #7 - September 11, 2010, 06:19 AM
    Quote from: ateapotist on September 11, 2010, 01:24 AM
    That leopard video was very moving. sad I've watched it before on YouTube.

    Here's a video I like.  Sorry, no compassion here. Just sheer skill, strength, agility, courage, self-confidence and adaptability. Afro  Evolution has built leopards to be incredible machines.  So fuckin good at their job, i.e. killing and surviving.
    They set the standards when it comes to self-reliance. Afro

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVhFmmYI_VA


    Ahh Big Cat Diaries 001_wub

    Did you watch the series when it was on?
    Quote from: ateapotist on September 11, 2010, 01:28 AM
    Here's another incredible creature. The humble ant.  Very civilised creatures.  If only humans could be this civilised. whistling2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4


    I'll see your ants and raise ya some slugs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVi4Z6CjZk

    Beautiful  Cry

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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #8 - September 11, 2010, 06:43 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on September 11, 2010, 06:19 AM
    Ahh Big Cat Diaries 001_wub

    Did you watch the series when it was on?

    Yeah.  The 'live' series wasn't as exciting, though.  Too much rambling and not enough action.


    Here's a good picture from
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/7994984/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-10-September-2010.html?image=10

    Welcome to the world baby.  Enjoy your stay here.  whistling2





    And this video is nerve-wracking as hell. ohmy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanX_k6lNS4
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #9 - September 11, 2010, 07:55 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on September 10, 2010, 03:31 PM
    Isn’t this enough? Just this world?
    Just this beautiful, complex
    Wonderfully unfathomable world?
    How does it so fail to hold our attention
    That we have to diminish it with the invention
    Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?

    ~ Tim Minchin, Storm

    I think there is a noble beauty to the wild world. The mournful chorus of wolves howling at the moon, voracious killer to some, sacred warrior spirit to others, both revered and despised. The majestic male lion, shaking the earth with his roar, declaring himself king of the plains, echoes from a violent and primal past. The sleek build of a wild animal on the cutting edge of life. The perfection of an animal evolved for a purpose, moulded by the senses, crafted by the razor edge of instinct. The bunched muscles of a young horse, running hard on the flats, the wind in its mane. The contours of a shark moving effortlessly with grim purpose. The dignity of an eagle on a mountain top, statuesque against the sky. The unfathomable depths that lay behind the gaze of a dolphin or a whale. A great elephant matriarch, the way she seems to carry time on her shoulders, eyes that have lived and seen and a mind that knows and never forgets.

    I thought it would be great to have a thread dedicated to the beauty of the natural world. Post your favorite wildlife clips, images, articles Smiley

    Here's one to start, one of my faves: The Night the Leopard Lay with the Baboon
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MrXM-4Ndrk

    This is actually a clip from a film called Eye of the Leopard. It tells the story of a young leopard growing up, called Lagadema (Light from the Sky). The most amazing thing is that baboons are her nemesis, her mortal enemy. They almost killed her when she was younger. They are much more dangerous to the leopard than lions or hyenas are, since they can climb trees just as good as her. And yet she is still able to show compassion and mercy at the most pure, primal and instinctual level.

    There is much to be learned from beasts.

    Sorry to have to poo on your poetically sentimental take. My reading is that the young leopard obviously sees the baby baboon as a cub - right size, furry, right movements, right noises, etc. Truth is without it's mothers warmth, milk, care and protection the young un is a gonner. Nothing to do with mercy and compassion. Disneyesque anthropomorphism has no place in the great struggle for life.
    Religion is ignorance giftwrapped in lyricism.
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #10 - September 11, 2010, 08:21 PM
    [url]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cushing+my+camel&aq=f/url]

    Hope you like this one though.
    (Fuck the youtube download function, you can google it yourselves)
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #11 - September 11, 2010, 08:27 PM
    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 11, 2010, 07:55 PM
    Sorry to have to poo on your poetically sentimental take. My reading is that the young leopard obviously sees the baby baboon as a cub - right size, furry, right movements, right noises, etc. Truth is without it's mothers warmth, milk, care and protection the young un is a gonner. Nothing to do with mercy and compassion. Disneyesque anthropomorphism has no place in the great struggle for life.

    One could argue that all mercy and compassion are ultimately for selfish, survival reasons.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #12 - September 11, 2010, 08:33 PM
    Usually intra-special though at the mammalian level.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #13 - September 12, 2010, 01:23 AM
    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 11, 2010, 08:21 PM
    [url]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cushing+my+camel&aq=f/url]

    Hope you like this one though.
    (Fuck the youtube download function, you can google it yourselves)

    was this what you wanted to post? (dont put url tags around it & just put in the weblink and the forum wizard embeds the video for you itself)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVG1NYBxok
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #14 - September 12, 2010, 02:15 AM
    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 11, 2010, 08:33 PM
    Usually intra-special though at the mammalian level.

    Dolphins save animals of other species.  Here's a good video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp_motddvnQ
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #15 - September 12, 2010, 03:20 AM
    Quote from: IsLame on September 10, 2010, 04:01 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqouVL0AiQ


    thanks for posting that. Really enjoyed watching it. I'm glad those two guys set Christian into the wild. A lion's birthright is to stride with majesty in the wild not be domesticated by apes such as ourselves.
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #16 - September 12, 2010, 11:34 AM
    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 11, 2010, 07:55 PM
    Sorry to have to poo on your poetically sentimental take. My reading is that the young leopard obviously sees the baby baboon as a cub - right size, furry, right movements, right noises, etc. Truth is without it's mothers warmth, milk, care and protection the young un is a gonner.


    Thats pretty much what the narrator says, but thanks.

    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 11, 2010, 07:55 PM
    Disneyesque anthropomorphism has no place in the great struggle for life.


    But does it have a place in a light-hearted forum thread?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc

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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #17 - September 12, 2010, 02:36 PM
    The amusing thing is, animals mirror so many of our behaviors, good and bad.

    Yet 'humans are so much better than animals', we are 'Chosen'...  Roll Eyes


    Who am I kidding? We were just lucky enough to develop larger brains, opposable thumbs, and better communication skills, before another species did.

     Cheesy
    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I remain.
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #18 - September 12, 2010, 10:19 PM
    Battle at Kruger - amateur footage of an epic showdown at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #19 - September 12, 2010, 10:25 PM
    Quote from: Biaxident on September 12, 2010, 02:36 PM
    Who am I kidding? We were just lucky enough to develop larger brains, opposable thumbs, and better communication skills, before another species did.


    Pfft, who needs opposable thumbs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hzUZE5bdfI
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #20 - September 12, 2010, 11:27 PM
    I don't see much "beauty" in sentient creatures.

    I restrict my taste for beauty mostly to inanimate objects throughout the cosmos. If speaking of appreciation of biology I find "beauty" in plants(also because they give me vital oxygen, decent food and shelter) combined with geographical landscapes in breathe taking picturesque scenes. And tranquil and serene environments(waterfall, snow mountains etc).

    Occasionally I find the aloofness of wolves or altruism of ants relatable.
     
    But I am mostly interested in observing how vicious other organisms can be for their survival.

    For me it goes both ways, I have my "awww..." moments as well as my keen observation of this nasty world.

    I like to see myself, my human-like traits, in other creatures as well. Believe me, I do. That's the sort of a person I particularly am.

    But that's not the way the world works.

    You can't be going "mmm yummy mcnuggets mommy" and yet be repulsed by a chicken thrown into boiling water, scalded,  have all its feathers plucked off alive, stripped bare, naked, becoming unrecognizable that it was even once a bird, its entire life humiliated by those last few minutes, clucking in intense agony, only to have its neck strangled and head chopped off by a butcher and tossed; body seperate - neck and head seperate. Treated as though nothing happened throughout the entire process - as though it never once breathed, as though it cannot feel pain.

    Enough with my words.

    heres a video - ruthless nature

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #21 - September 13, 2010, 12:48 AM
     cool2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkV-of_eN2w
    "A good man is so hard to find but a hard man is so good to find"
  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #22 - September 13, 2010, 09:02 AM
    Quote from: Logical_Mind44 on September 12, 2010, 11:27 PM
    heres a video - ruthless nature

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

    Jeez - that really is wicked, the only thing left for the wasps to do at the end was to eat the caterpillars dead body..
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #23 - September 13, 2010, 10:53 AM
    Quote from: Logical_Mind44 on September 12, 2010, 11:27 PM
    But I am mostly interested in observing how vicious other organisms can be for their survival.


    Meet the Emerald Jewel Wasp:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-p_4mp-RtA
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #24 - September 13, 2010, 11:14 AM
    Quote from: Logical_Mind44 on September 12, 2010, 11:27 PM
    Enough with my words.

    heres a video - ruthless nature

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

    One of the most interesting things about some parasites is the way they rewire the brains of their hosts. This doesn't just happen with caterpillars. Toxoplasmosis is a brilliant example because it affects mammals.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #25 - September 13, 2010, 11:28 AM
    Quote from: Ishina on September 12, 2010, 11:34 AM
    Thats pretty much what the narrator says, but thanks.

    But does it have a place in a light-hearted forum thread?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc



    Sorry, I am a bit of an old curmudge today, aren't I.
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #26 - September 13, 2010, 11:46 AM
    Quote from: IsLame on September 12, 2010, 01:23 AM
    was this what you wanted to post? (dont put url tags around it & just put in the weblink and the forum wizard embeds the video for you itself)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVG1NYBxok

    Thanks mate. When you say 'put in', do you type it in or can you copy and paste?
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #27 - September 13, 2010, 11:48 AM
    Just copy/paste the share url. Wink
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #28 - September 13, 2010, 12:25 PM
    Quote from: sojournerlumus on September 13, 2010, 11:46 AM
    Thanks mate. When you say 'put in', do you type it in or can you copy and paste?

    yep copy & paste the weblink here  Afro
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  • Re: Beautiful Nature
     Reply #29 - September 13, 2010, 03:31 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_fUmx-HI0Q

    Ah, eureka!  Thanks folks. Enjoy.
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