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The Nature of Things: Season 21

21x12 Structure of Birds Eggs / Newfound land Oil

  • 1981-01-15T01:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Magazine edition featuring the following items - a report from State University of New York at Buffalo on the structure of birds' eggs and how their porosity enables the growing chick to breathe inside the egg; film shows how oxygen enters the egg through the multitude of small holes and how this differs in small eggs and large; also, research into the incubating behaviour of herons and terns and how this affects the development of their eggs and chicks. Newfound land Oil. A look at the social and ecological changes occurring in some of the fishing villages of Newfoundland where oil exploration surveys are being conducted.
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