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Angotee
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 128
Scope and Contents
The program contrasts an Eskimo boy, Angotee, with an American boy, his counterpart of the same age. The show opens with Charles Collingwood observing a group of children playing in Central Park and then moves on to the film Angotee, on the life of an Eskimo boy. The story takes place in the Baffin Islands in northern Canada and follows Angotee from birth through marriage and parenting. At five years of age, Angotee learns to build an igloo and he kills his first seal at ten. The high points...
Dates:
1956
Animal behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 92
Scope and Contents
Konrad Lorenz, foremost authority on animal behavior from the University of Muenster in Germany, discusses imprinting and animal behavior on this broadcast. A film is shown in which Lorenz separates a number of greylag goose eggs, imprinting and raising one half by himself, while the others are raised by the goose mother. Lorenz teaches the goslings to swim and fly and also learns to communicate with them. At the end of the experiment, he brings the two groups together and then calls to the...
Dates:
1955
Animal courtship behavior
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 53
Scope and Contents
The courtship behavior of various animals in relation to human behavioral patterns is the topic of discussion for this broadcast. Shown are the stylized, stiff-legged dance of the male stork, the violent fights of male bighorn rams, bison and sea elephants, as well as the posturing habits of the male Australian lyrebird in front of the female, the nuptial flight of the queen bee, and other examples which point out similarities and differences in the forms of courtship behavior between human...
Dates:
1953
Animal husbandry photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .F37
Scope and Contents
Agricultural photographs and illustrations of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, dairy products, and the dairy industry. Bulk of prints from the 1920s.
Dates:
1896-1949
Animal life in the desert
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 49
Scope and Contents
Charles M. Bogert, curator of herpetology at the AMNH, conducts a survey of American desert creatures for this broadcast. Hosted by Robert Northshield, the program highlights the struggle for survival by desert animals and current scientific research into mechanisms of heat regulation in reptiles. These cold-blooded animals are shown to adapt to environments with wide temperature fluctuations. Bogert covers the eyes of a snake and observes how the snake's heat sensors enables it to strike a...
Dates:
1953
Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins : [videorecording]
Item
Identifier: EXH.042
Dates:
1977 - 2003
Anne Eisner Putnam photographic slide collection, circa 1960.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 411
Abstract
Photographs of pygmies of the Congo, contains multiple images of children, one slide of an okapi.
Dates:
circa 1960
Antarctic expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .E441
Scope and Contents
Captioned, "Antarctic island where Ellsworth found minerals" and "Lincoln Ellsworth." Latter has Ellsworth with a penguin.
Dates:
1939
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