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
Animal vs Animal:
Zebra - Lioness | Bears - Wolves | Spider-Frog | Killer Whale - Sea Lion | Cobra - Lizard | Anaconda snake - Capybara
Battle at Kruger National Park [sensational wild animal fight in South Africa]
China, Hong Kong [pollution]
Indonesia, Bali [travel guide]
Italy, Florence, Calcio Storico Fiorentino, a brutal, annual football match in a lovely city.
Madagascar [Africa], Animals 1 [looking at the unique species] Animals 2 [human impact on wildlife]
Mexico, Cancun [on-a-budget] | Playa del Carmen | Mexico City | Chichen Itza [guides]
Peru, Nazca Lines [theorizing and flights]
Peru, Machu Picchu [theorizing, views and Andean music]
Scotland, Edinburgh [guide]
England, Wiltshire county, Crop Circles filmed from a light plane.
England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge construction information.
Spain, Cadiz, superb Flamenco music and dance.
Turkey [guide]
USA, New York City [on-a-budget] | Chicago [on-a-budget] | Hawaii [on-a-budget] | Venice Beach, California
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World [a list of the old Wonders with information and still pictures]
Spectacular Stunts: Not travel, no, but an awesome collection of amazing stunts.
Hitler vs Ryanair: Not exactly travel advice this, but we couldn't resist this hilarious rewrite of Hitler and his officers 'discussing' plans to fly on holiday with Ryanair.
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 videos:
- 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!
