Natural History Museum online lectures.

Here are some online lectures from "Nature Live" at the Natural History Museum London that zoochatters may find interesting:

"The spectacled bear" - Talk on the spectacled bear:


"Venom kills but can it cure?" - Talk on venom in nature and its curative and deadly properties:


"Meet the spiders"- Talk on spiders:


"Snakes and viruses"- Talk on snakes, snake conservation and the COVID-19 pandemic:


"Its time for nature" - Talk on biodiversity:


"Colourful cephalopods"- Talk on bioluminescence and colour of cephalopods:


"Plants that bite back"- Talk on carnivorous plants:

 

More online lectures from NHM:

 

I'm glad that the talk is about the spectacled bear. I don't really know why some people changed its name to Andean bear.

 

I didn't know the name had changed, I've always known them as both the Andean and spectacled bear and used the names interchangeably.

In Spanish this species is known as both the "oso Andino" ("Andean bear") and the "oso de anteojos" ("Spectacled bear").

I know it is called "Jukumari" in some indigenous areas of Colombia, Ecuador Peru and Bolivia but I don't think it is used commonly outside of indigenous cultures despite efforts by conservationists to encourage this (probably unsuprising in some ways).

 

Also, a reminder that this online lecture "Turning eco-anxiety into action" will happen in two days which some of you may find interesting: