ArkayneJoost ListWild Chronicles: Longevity, Tigers Whale Sharks - Joost

<p><a href="http://www.joost.com/0327xg3"><img src="http://j00.st/p16gfohE0eSRWM68WUr9sQ.jpg" alt="sample frame" /></a></p><p>Longevity- With the world population aging, Wild Chronicles goes in search of the secret to a long and happy life. Statistics tell us that Japan and Italy harbor pockets of amazing longevity unexplained by medical advances alone. So while Americans have access to cutting edge health care, it is Sardinia that boasts twenty times as many 100-year-olds. Just what are these centenarians doing right? Tiger Eye- Photographing a wild tiger is one of the greatest challenges any cameraman can face. Notoriously tough subjects, tigers are dangerous, nocturnal, and solitary. But National Geographic?s Nick Nichols has a plan to capture a tiger on film?by taking himself out of the picture. Wild Chronicles joins Nichols in India?s Badhavagarh National Park as he deploys an array of remote camera traps set with infrared triggers. The images they return are both breathtaking and eye-opening, and may help save this predator in decline. Mark Olson- Wild Chronicles profiles emerging explorer Mark Olson, a botanist whose novel research techniques are taking him to high places. Having traveled the globe studying plants, Olsen?s current project utilizes a powered paraglider to gain a fresh perspective on the diversity of trees and how evolution has shaped them to make the most of photosynthesis. Whale Sharks- Every spring, the warm waters off Belize host an undersea gathering like no other. Here, amidst thousands of fish species, the enormous whale shark, weighing nearing 20 tons, dominates the stage. At a time when marine populations elsewhere are in precipitous decline, Wild Chronicles dives in with two biologists to find out exactly what is driving this congregation of giants.</p>