Photos by Robyn Lafata
“Mother may I”…“Oh, I don’t know”… think it’s too high…dad where are you’? As this newly fledged barred owl heads into a new world and navigates branches, learning to climb, he turns to his mother as he starts climbing a bit unsteady. As he goes up he looks to his father in the other tree, carefully watching its every move…so precious!
Very true! There was a bald eagle cam the other week where the dad decided he didn’t want kids after the fact… 😓
Some animal documentaries have left me in shambles, lol.
Lol I was watching Prehistoric Planet, CGI documentary with David Attenborough about dinosaurs, and the baby pterosaurs were trying to fledge while predators were trying to eat them all and I was so invested in their safety even though I knew they were animated! 😄
I think i saw this one, they are well written and animated. Love this kind of docs on CGI Sundays.
There’s one of the first climate change focused docs that came out, which I’m never forget. It followed a white bear, while it began to swim towards uncertainty, looking for land. After a very long swim, it reached a small rock/island full of walruses.
Well, the bear was weak enough to wait a little to try to get a bite from a walrus. It was actually his last shot at surviving, since it hadn’t eaten for a long time.
It tried, just for a walrus to sink one tooth in the bears side. It was over in a second. The bear just retreaded a few meters, sat down and awaited it’s own death.
New tech and tracking devices have very much enhanced documentaries in the last years. It’s very refreshing to see a deeper and more nuanced depiction of our world.
I felt a little betrayed by “My friend the octopus” though. Did you watch it?
Poor polar bear 😢
I wasn’t going to say anything since I usually don’t give bad updates, but the Barn Owl rescued from the Australian Home Depot type store after being trapped for 9 days died of starvation 45 minutes after it was rescued.
Is that different than My Octopus Teacher? I haven’t seen that yet. I always forget, but it’s been on my watch list for a while.
Dying of starvation, after being rescued… Life’s really a bitch.
My Octopus Teacher. That’s the one i meant. It’s good, but i found one decision of the human very wrong, i couldn’t have lived with it. But since you haven’t seen it, i don’t want to spoil.
It’s really fascinating to see the octopus behaving the way it behaves towards the human. I always have to remember myself that this isn’t fiction, no CGI, it’s the way the octopus really took things.
I went and watched it now. I don’t know if I’d be able to be a bystander during some of those moments if I was there and that attached. A couple times I was just like shoo those sharks away already, they can go after something else.
It was impressive during that whole big chase scene when it went on land and then rode the shark! 😆