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Australian freshwater, Duration 8 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 11 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 24 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 17 seconds, Shot includes Conolophus subcristatus (Galapagos land iguana)
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Halophila sp. is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Octopus sp. 4 (unidentified long arm octopus). Coral Sea, Shot at night, Duration 19 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 20 seconds, Shot includes Conolophus subcristatus (Galapagos land iguana)
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Australian freshwater, Duration 11 seconds
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Halophila ovalis is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Chelonia mydas (Green turtle). Coral Sea, Duration 28 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 18 seconds, Shot includes Conolophus subcristatus (Galapagos land iguana)
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Halophila sp. is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Octopus sp. 4 (unidentified long arm octopus). Coral Sea, Shot at night, Duration 13 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 13 seconds
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Australian freshwater, Duration 8 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 10 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 11 seconds
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Halophila sp. is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Octopus sp. 4 (unidentified long arm octopus). Coral Sea, Shot at night, Duration 53 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 14 seconds, Shot includes Conolophus subcristatus (Galapagos land iguana), Creagrus furcatus (Swallowtail gull)
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Australian freshwater, Duration 7 seconds
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Syringodium isoetifolium is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Echidna nebulosa (Starry moray). South Pacific Ocean, Duration 17 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 11 seconds
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Enhalus acoroides is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Platax teira (Blunthead batfish). Coral Sea, Schooling, Duration 53 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 33 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 39 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 27 seconds
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In this episode of CreatureCast, the strangler fig first avoids having to sprout in the dark understory of the rainforest by growing in the tops of the trees closer to the sun, and then avoids getting too dehydrated up there by dropping roots to the forest floor. Finally it grows back up to the top of the tree, surrounding and strangling the host tree on the way, taking advantage of the tree's structural integrity to support its own hollow body.Narration by Matt Ogburn of the Edwards lab at Brown University. Artwork and editing by Sophia Tintori. Original score by Amil Byleckie. This video was funded by the National Science Foundation grant # IOS-08432321 and is release under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. Check out CreatureCast.org for more stories about animals, plants and fungi.
