Date: 4/8/24 4:06 pm From: Bryant, Don <dab14...> Subject: Raptor episodes on PBS
HI all,
For all the raptophile types, if you haven’t seen: the next two epidodes of Nature on PBS will concern raptors. There are trailers and shorts for Season 42, episodes 13 and 14 on-line already. I really enjoyed watching the one on a red-legged seriema hunting snakes—saw those in Argentina (they only became raptors very recently when their genomes were sequenced (2 species. red and black-legged)). Season 14 has a 3-min clip on striated caracaras, one of only a couple of raptors I haven’t seen in South Ameria. They are out on islands like the Falklands/Maldives, so very hard to get to without a dedicated (i.e., very expensive) trip. The communal nature of their behavior was cool to see…
Anyway, it looks like “Fistfull of daggers” will be a great two part series.
don
Donald A. Bryant, Ph. D.
Academy Professor,
Ernest C. Pollard Professor Emeritus of Biotechnology ,
and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
