Animal Physics Videos
You can look through the various videos on here to get ideas for your own class presentations or learn more about animal physics at your own pace. Go ahead and take a look around. Bear with us as we grow this resource as it is a work in progress. Enjoy!
Physics of Jumping
Check out this amazing BBC video about the remarkable Mexican jumping bean! After watching the video, make a journal page about how and why the beans jump. Look up the laws of motion on Wikipedia and add some physics explanations to your journal page.
Physics of Jet Propulsion
Archer Fish Water Bullets for Hunting
This remarkable video from Animal Olympians features the Archer Fish's ability to accurately shoot a stream of water from its mouth and hit an insect target above the surface of the it's watery home.
Physics of Motion: Speed
BBC - Fastest Animals on Earth in Slow Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWxAfl0okE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWxAfl0okE&feature=related
Physics of Animal Sounds
BBC: Physics of the Superb Lyre Bird's song
This is one of the most remarkable demonstrations of a mimic in nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y&feature=related
This is one of the most remarkable demonstrations of a mimic in nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y&feature=related
Physics of Swimming
Penguins Swimming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tedcD9OFDE&feature=related
Amazing HD Quality video of Penguins swimming - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuzIgI_pn4&feature=related
Sailfish hunt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rItdHYaCwPM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tedcD9OFDE&feature=related
Amazing HD Quality video of Penguins swimming - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuzIgI_pn4&feature=related
Sailfish hunt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rItdHYaCwPM&feature=related
Physics of Light and Color
NOVA: Kings of Camouflage: Meet the Cuttlefish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-8v1mxpR0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-8v1mxpR0&feature=related
Physics of Animal Bubbles
Remarkable video of how dolphins blow bubbles! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVgXJ55G6Y&feature=related