Carabus films

Submitted by matthew_ellis24... on Sat, 07/02/2009 - 20:39.

As you may have seen we've recently added a lot of short clips to the knowledge base. These are all courtesy of Reinhard Weidlich at http://www.feuersalamander-dvd.de/ and show a range of interesting life history behviours in Carabus such as mating and hunting as well as showing their prefered habitats, mating behaviour and feeding habits. If you like the clips you can buy his full length 62min DVD (PAL DVD 16:9) for €18.90 here.

Reinhard has also helped in the protection of a population of fire salamanders, and you can read more about that on his website.

His latest film, Carabus, took 2 years to make and used over 200 hours of footage of captive and live beetles. A large amount of the funding for this project came from his prize money for the 1999 nature protection price for his work protecting and documenting the habitat of the fire salamander in Weissbach, western Saxonia.

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