 With Peter Capaldi–a proven choice for the smartest man in the universe–you come away impressed with Leonardo’s love of animals and maybe a little creeped out by his anger at humans. Keep reading Peter Capaldi’s Leonardo da Vinci loves animals, mocks humans  James Cameron found nothing more than shrimp on his dive to the Mariana Trench. Richard Branson hopes to see more when he visits the deepest spot in the Atlantic this year. Keep reading Explorers hope for less boring critters on upcoming seafloor trench dives  The movie imagines the elusive animal really does survive, only a big drug company wants to kill it off for a magic potion it secretes.This is by no means the movie wildlife watchers would make about the fantastic hope that a living thylacine represents. Keep reading The Hunter: Crushing the fantasy if the Thylacine wasn’t extinct and someone wanted to kill it off again  GQ and Esquire face off over the exotic predator release in OH. Esquire goes all action adventure. GQ tries to figure out how lion, tigers and bears were unleashed on suburbia. Keep reading Men’s mags duel over OH zoo gone wild  A 1958 schlocky movie had the star power to ignite the environmental movement–if it hadn’t gone so horribly wrong. Keep reading Wind Across the Everglades: hypnotically horrible  Birders are overly eager for their starring role in The Big Year, the first big budget movie on bird watching. Even with Steve Martin, competitive birding can’t be cool. Keep reading Birders hoping (in vain) The Big Year will make them cool  The Chupacabra–the elusive goat-sucking beast for which canines with mange are all to frequently mistaken–may not even be plausible as an ancient myth. In Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore killjoy scientist Benjamin Radford says it all just started in 1995 with one woman who saw a B-movie. Keep reading Chupacabra myth not so ancient; started in 1995  Blue Atlantic discovers Japan still slaughtering dolphins in way that doesn’t turn bay red. South Africa kills four poachers. Six WWF workers kidnapped in India, likely by poachers. Keep reading Japanese dolphin killers at it again, this time more discreetly & daily tour of animal news  Getting ready for a trip to South Africa to see wildlife, I subjected my husband to yet another travel video I found on Netflix called Destination Africa, which purports to be from 2005. What I got was easily the most awful and awkward travel documentary ever made on Africa. Keep reading Worst South Africa DVD ever: Destination Africa 
We’ve seen the battle between whalers and whale-watchers turned into a reality TV hit in Whale Wars; now it’s moving to the horror film genre. Iceland’s Harpoon: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre features whale watchers cast adrift at sea who are preyed upon by rogue whalers. You’d think Iceland–where whaling and defying international opinion–are considered almost a patriotic duty, would produce a film with the Sea Shepherd crew on the rampage. But this film seems to be, dare I say it, more subtle. The family of whalers has gone mad–after they aren’t allowed to hunt whales anymore. The trailer shows the whalers shooting harpoons at someone in the water. And the tourist cries out, “No! Please! I’m a friend of nature! No! Argghh!” So, the tourists pretty much had it coming. I’d want to harpoon anybody who said that. I haven’t had access to the film, which played at the Glasgow Film Festival in February and is set to be released in the UK on DVD soon. The MonstersandCritics blog horror fan pans it as “just another average horror film with various characters being pitted against a family of psychotic whale hunters.” But I’m glad to see the whale issue now playing out in pop culture. Hey, every movie can’t be The Cove. Where to Go to See Whales Where to Watch Animals in Europe To see more animals go to Keep reading A Whale Wars Horror Flick: Harpoon: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre |
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