The Waiting
December 10, 2024 5:18 PM Subscribe
The Waiting : "Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us? "
@intermod, looks like it's 16 minutes.
posted by lukemeister at 7:56 PM on December 10, 2024
posted by lukemeister at 7:56 PM on December 10, 2024
You can watch it on the NYT website with a timeline control, not sure why they disabled it on this. Perhaps to push people to watch the whole thing? Vimeo usually has one.
posted by Wretch729 at 10:46 PM on December 10, 2024 [2 favorites]
Spoiler:
A fungal infection called Chytridiomycosis killed the frogs. Helped along by climate change and global trade.posted by Wretch729 at 10:46 PM on December 10, 2024 [2 favorites]
You can also watch the video from the comfort of your offline device using yt-dlp, which, though the expanded name contains "Youtube", works on many services, Vimeo included.
(You used to be able to play such files using VLC, with the menu option that, on a Mac at least, is under
posted by It is regrettable that at 8:01 AM on December 11, 2024 [1 favorite]
(You used to be able to play such files using VLC, with the menu option that, on a Mac at least, is under
File > Open Network…, but Youtube and Vimeo appear to have broken this feature for your convenience.)posted by It is regrettable that at 8:01 AM on December 11, 2024 [1 favorite]
There's a This Podcast Will Kill You episode from 2019 about what killed these frogs, so I already had a hunch about that the cause would turn out to be. It's pretty bleak.
posted by wakannai at 8:13 AM on December 11, 2024
posted by wakannai at 8:13 AM on December 11, 2024
Disappointed it's animation, I was hoping to go to Costa Rica and see real frogs.
posted by mygraycatbongo at 10:05 AM on December 11, 2024
posted by mygraycatbongo at 10:05 AM on December 11, 2024
druva, thank you for posting this
it's perfect, I think the choices made for this video--length, animation, etc--were apt.
posted by ginger.beef at 12:55 PM on December 11 [1 favorite]
it's perfect, I think the choices made for this video--length, animation, etc--were apt.
posted by ginger.beef at 12:55 PM on December 11 [1 favorite]
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