Wildlife and Travel Videos

These videos are mostly on animal or travel-related subjects and have been selected from YouTube for professional quality, good camera work, useful information, lack of heavy-handed marketing and, if possible, sense of humour. They are related/linked to bugbog subject areas and add in-depth knowledge, advice and occasionally scary visuals.

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Dangerous Animals

Funnel Web Spiders | Box Jellyfish | Irukandji Jellyfish | Brazilian Spiders | Killer Bees attack

Animal science

Giant Pacific Octopus | New Animal Species | Fire Ants

Madagascar (Africa), Animals 1 (looking at the unique species) Animals 2 (human impact on wildlife)

Animal vs Animal

Battle at Kruger National Park (sensational wild animal fight in South Africa)

Video Travel Guides

China, Hong Kong (pollution)

Mexico, Cancun (on-a-budget) | Playa del Carmen | Chichen Itza

USA, New York City (on-a-budget) | Chicago (on-a-budget) | Hawaii (on-a-budget) | Venice Beach, California

Interesting Stuff

Spain, Cadiz, superb Flamenco music and dance.

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (a list of the old World Wonders with information and still pictures)

Italy, Florence, Calcio Storico Fiorentino, a brutal, annual football match in a lovely city.

Peru, Nazca Lines (theorizing and flights)

Peru, Machu Picchu (theorizing, views and Andean music)

England, Wiltshire county, Crop Circles filmed from a light plane.

England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge construction information.

Discover Volcanoes!

World Festivals

Guca Trumpet Festival, Serbia: A fascinating documentary film about a Serbian brass band festival.

Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, China. A beautiful slide show leads you through a white wonder world.

Holi Festival of Colour, India. Awesome photography, incredible colours and sights.

Kirkpinar Turkish Oil Wrestling: Historic, macho and quite ridiculous Turkish competition.

London Fireworks: Stunning 2013 New Years Eve fireworks and music display.

Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia: a behind-the-scenes look at this massive, gay carnival.

Secret Garden Party, England: Official video of the music and arts festival that takes place every summer.

World of WearableArt Awards Show: Spectacular fashion extravaganza in New Zealand.

WoW!

Spectacular Stunts: Not travel, no, but an awesome collection of amazing stunts.

Talking Dog Tease: Another not-travel video that we love so much that we want it on bugbog.

Matt Dancing around the World our favourite from many options of this magical, planet-wide performance.

Cristophe walking across China and growing simultaneously, another stylistically superb and evocative travel video.

Hints on taking good quality video

• Don't move the camera so much! Check the professional way, they mostly film something moving from a non-moving position, then cut and move the camera to a new static position. But if you have to move or zoom the camera, do it very slow and steadily.

• Don't fast forward the recording! Edit the rubbish out instead of giving viewers speed-nausea!

• 'Still' videos (i.e. composed of videos of prints), fergedaboutit! unless especially informative.

• Concentrate on steady shooting of really interesting moving subjects and edit the tape brutally afterwards. Slash and burn!