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There is more to hibernation than just ‘sleeping off the winter’. Observations of the Canadian ground squirrel have shown that the animal can control its sleep, even at body temperatures close to...
A CD-ROM encyclopaedia of animal (including human) movement, examining movement from the point of view of type of movement (flying, swimming, jumping, etc.), or type of animal. Contains over video sequences...
Migrating birds and animals can navigate over vast distances between their summer and winter habitats, and for years scientists hiave puzzles over how they do it. American research has shown that there is no...
Describes the regulations and disturbances of blood flow, blood pressure and cardiac function. Concentrates on understanding rather than detail and uses analogies with other transport systems and clinical...
Demonstrates population and unitary properties on conduction in nerve axons.
Looks at locomotion with legs in its many forms - the different gaits of a horse, the long stride length of a cheetah, the hopping of a kangaroo etc. Sequences were filmed at the Gait Analysis Laboratory in...
Looks at pioneering work into flapping flight of birds. In Bristol University for the first time accurate measurements are being made of lift and thrust of a bird in flight. In an experiment at Cranfield...
Looks at how fish use different muscles for slow or fast swimming with film from the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, where fish have been trained to ‘race’ for a food reward. There are also sequences...
Shows the production of fibrin. An Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film.
Time-lapse photographic record of stages in egg cleavage up to gastrulation and formation of neural folds.
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