Reptile and Amphibian related Video/ DVD
While older kids might consider chill-inducing reenactments of snake bites and Komodo dragon attacks totally cool, less hormonally charged viewers are likely to be completely creeped out by much of Nightmares of Nature: Deadly Reptiles. Yet there is natural drama in the authentic, if sometimes shocking, footage. A Colombian Indian harvests poison from a frog to make lethal darts, then kills a monkey with his new weapon. Indonesian villagers speak in their native tongue as they relive attacks by a 300-pound lizard, the alligator-like Komodo dragon. A trip to rural Asia reveals a culture that values snakes as protectors of grain, despite potentially deadly snake bites. While the soothing-voiced announcer tries to reassure viewers that reptiles mean to hurt flies, not humans, you'll be hard-pressed to believe it. To educate the under-10 set, and avoid giving them nightmares, turn to the Amazing Animals series instead. --Valerie J. Nelson
Explore the world of reptiles with Andrew Sachs.
Featuring an exploration of the amphibian world. Includes frogs, toads and salamanders. Includes natural history, habitats and life cycles.
Lethal And Dangerous - Venomous Snakes
An inside look at the world of the poisonous snake. Includes the Rattler, Water Moccasin and the Coral Snake.
Travel thousands of miles across the beauty and grandeur of Australia to come mere inches from certain death with 10 deadliest snakes in the world. Renowned reptile wrangler Steve Irwin revels in danger of the cold-blooded variety and you will too as you learn about and witness the secretive behavior of these feared denizens that silently slither along the earth's surface. Follow Steve on his death-defying-- some would say insane!-- quest as he handles, among others, the death adder, the giant tiger, the western brown and the deadliest snake in the world, the fierce. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Snake-bite kit not included!
Imagine an 18-foot king cobra packing enough venom to kill an adult elephant: even when decapitated its head has been known to bite and kill! -- as a house pet. See how this most regal of snakes lives in relative harmony -- unless you foolishly rile it up -- throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Africa. Watch antivenom being created from regularly milked cobras, snake-bite charmers engaged in a devil dance to save a bite victim and a battle royal pitting a furry marsh mongoose against a furious cobra. Cobra also shows you how the wily reptile forms its menacing hood, is charmed by motion and vibration, not sound, and can accurately shoot crippling venom straight in your eye. Charming, no?
Explore the dark continent with the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, as he uncovers Africa's deadliest snakes, rescuing a killer Egyptian Cobra tormented by herding elephants and giraffes. Then, Steve combs through rocks, gathering four deadly Carpet Vipers and a dozen scorpions. He even comes across the world's most prolific biter, the Puff Adder--before finally confronting the notorious Black Mamba. Africa is home to 400 snake species, 90 of them venomous. Now experience for yourself how clever and deadly these killers are.
Explore the dark continent with the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, as he uncovers Africa's deadliest snakes, rescuing a killer Egyptian Cobra tormented by herding elephants and giraffes. Then, Steve combs through rocks, gathering four deadly Carpet Vipers and a dozen scorpions. He even comes across the world's most prolific biter, the Puff Adder--before finally confronting the notorious Black Mamba. Africa is home to 400 snake species, 90 of them venomous. Now experience for yourself how clever and deadly these killers are.
Learn how the people of the Amazon are influenced by this giant. Learn the Anaconda's hunting habits and find out how on earth the Anaconda swallows a large bird with a beak over 3 and a half feet long!
A biologist studies anacondas in the swampy heart of Venezuela
Join fearless Steve and Terry Irwin as they struggle to return some crocodile "friends" to safety. Among the cranky crocs are jawless "Nobby," feisty "Lucy," elusive "Bindi" and, in what is probably one of the Irwins’ most rewarding captures, the massive and aggressive "Charlie". Don’t even think of trying this at home! You’ll witness the different skills and techniques needed to stay one step ahead of the giant snapping jaws!
Steve and Terri host this chilling and thrilling look back at some of their most dangerous moments and closest calls! During the making of The Crocodile Hunter television series, Steve has been rattled by rattlers, surrounded by tiger sharks, cornered by cobras and chased up a tree by Komodo dragons. You’ll relive Terri’s famous cliff fall and see amazing new footage of Steve’s confrontation with lions and elephants that will wrack your last nerve!
Despite their deserved reputation as fearsome hunters, African crocodiles are surprisingly vulnerable prey. This 50-minute entry into the National Geographic canon chronicles the lives of these 16-foot long, 1-ton beasts that Africans call "the animal that kills while smiling." When not taking down unsuspecting wildebeests come to quench their thirst on the banks of the Grumeti River in Tanzania, the female crocodiles spend a good part of their year nurturing first their eggs and then their young. A mama crocodile may see 80 youngsters into the world each year, but an astonishing 90 percent will fall victim to the very animals their mother would have for dinner: monitor lizards, mongooses, perch. Actor Richard Kiley narrates a year in the life of these progeny of the dinosaurs. Both the cinematography and its subject matter are compelling, whether the "dragons" are using their famously powerful jaws to crush wildlife or tenderly carry their young. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Most commonly thought of as hand-removal machines, alligators are the undisputed top carnivores of America's southern wetlands. National Geographic's Realm of the Alligator takes you deeper than you'd ever want to go in person into the Okefenokee swamp, straddling Florida and Georgia, to explore the private lives of these modern-day dinosaurs. The feeding scenes are awe-inspiring--to see such a large, typically slow-moving animal strike with such speed and ferocity is breathtaking. Reproduction and development are covered in depth, as well, with tiny alligators crawling out of their eggs to begin their carnivorous lives almost immediately. Exciting and informative, National Geographic's Realm of the Alligator lets you get close and still keep all your fingers. --Rob Lightner
A look at Monitor Lizards who play a very important role in the food chain of Sri Lanka's lagoons and forests. Mature Monitor Lizards can grow up to 8 feet long
Take a totally tropical trip to the rain forest with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go! Explore the life-filled rain forest, where there's a greater variety of plants and animals than anywhere else on earth. In the tropical forests of Central and South America, you'll meet spotted jaguars, colorful poison-arrow frogs, slow-moving sloths, and loud-mouthed howler monkeys - all captured by the world's finest filmmakers.
Discover the wondrous array of defenses and deceptions deployed by creatures in the wild! Over millions of years, animals have evolved an enormous range of techniques using colors, patterns, and mimicry as defense tactics and aggressive weapons in their continuing battle to survive. Join National Geographic to see these techniques in action. You'll uncover ptarmigans and praying mantises so well disguised they're almost impossible to find. Learn how the butterfly's beautiful colorations can save its life. Stand guard duty with African meerkats against predators. Discover the sophisticated prey detection systems of rattlesnakes and bats. And witness the last-ditch defenses of a spotted skunk cornered by a mountain lion and a Thompson's gazelle attempting to rescue her young from jackals.
From ancient dinosaurs to modern-day turtles to the mystery of the Loch Ness monster, reptiles have been a part of the evolutionary process for more than 350 million years. Reptiles and Amphibians was released in 1989 but appears to be pieced together with even older stock footage. A T. rex fighting looks a bit like a scene from Godzilla. Just the same, this video is still informative and curious. The life cycle of frogs, sea snakes in Australia, as well as an experiment examining how lizards regenerate their tails and if such regeneration could be adapted by man is all thought-provoking. Nearly every continent of the world is touched on, as is the concept of reptiles as gods in some cultures and simultaneously as monsters in others
Journey into a tropical jungle of staggering beauty. Here, torrential rains annually transform the dry forest floor into a watery world where some of the most extraordinary and uncommon wildlife flourish.
The tropical rain forests of the world are home to nearly half the animal species on earth - an estimated five million different life forms. More than 100 inches of rainfall each year sustain this lush environment, where some of the most fascinating examples of natural adaptation can be found. Journey to the dense rain forests of Costa Rica and watch as leaf-cutting ants carry sections of leaves many times their weight to underground fungus gardens, a basilisk lizard walks on water, and howler...
For hundreds of thousands of years, the sun's rays have baked the Namib Desert in southwestern Africa, where ground temperatures reach up to 170F. Narrated by Burgess Meredith, this acclaimed program takes a fascinating look at the desert's vast wilderness of sand, sea and open spaces where nature has learned to adapt and flourish.
Besides the highly interesting facts, those interviewed are such gems they could never be scripted or casted into any top line comedy with such brilliance. This video does a wonderful job discussing the issue of introduced species and the biology of the cane toad while putting it in a social context. The interviews make the plight of both the cane toad and the humans hit home.
Science goes "Boing!" when Bill Nye shows up, and this fast-moving instalment of his popular show is no exception. Reptiles & Insects--Leapin' Lizards! uses the Science Guy's trademark wacky sounds and visual effects to get across a wide range of facts about some of our cold-blooded relatives and, as an added bonus, makes science and scientists look cool. We get to see venomous snakes, hissing cockroaches, and angry crocodiles in the safety of the living room. Nye knows that our first response is to say "Yuck!" but he gets past that by asking questions: What do lizards eat? How do bees see? And what's really going on inside that ant farm? You'll find all the answers in Reptiles & Insects--Leapin' Lizards! --Rob Lightner |
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National
Geographic's Nightmares of Nature: Deadly Reptiles (1997)
Eyewitness -
Reptile
Eyewitness - Amphibian
The Ultimate
Guide -Snakes
The
Fascinating World of Snakes 
Snakes: The
Armed Warriors
Ten Deadliest
Snakes in the World (1998)
Cobra-King of Snakes
(1998)
The Crocodile
Hunter - Spitting Cobras of the World (2000) 
The Crocodile
Hunter - Africa's Deadliest Snakes (2000)
Killer Instincts:
Anaconda - Giant Snake of the Amazon 
Land of the
anaconda usa
The Crocodile
Hunter - Greatest Crocodile Captures (1999)
The Crocodile
Hunter (1999) 
The Crocodile
Hunter - Steve's Most Dangerous Adventures (1999)
National
Geographic's Crocodiles: Here Be Dragons (1990) 
National
Geographic's Realm of the Alligator (1987)
National
Geographic Video - Thunder Dragons
Dragons of
Komodo (1998)
National
Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forest
(1994)
National
Geographic's Wild Survivors: Camouflage & Mimicry (1987) 
National
Geographic's Reptiles and Amphibians (1968)
National
Geographic's Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest (1990)
National
Geographic's Rain Forest (1983)
National Geographic's
Creatures of the Namib Desert (1986) 
Cane
Toads: An Unnatural History
ZooLife
With Jack Hanna: Zoo Babies 
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Reptiles and
Insects - Leapin' Lizards!