Hello!
According to the fact that we can’t upload videos to iNaturalist and many of us have a lot of video observations on YouTube and Vimeo, I decided to start this topic where we can can share links to our video observations, discuss them and interesting behaviour of reptiles and amphibians filmed on video.
As a start, I would like to share my video of breeding period of Rana temporaria (the European common frog) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkFD7ZIyDoQ
That was most charming! Thank you for your video; it was both educational and amusing. 
Thanks! ))) Hope other members of our community will share their observations
No funny narration, but these lizards made me laugh at the way she almost gets away, but not quite - over and over.
Hi
I have seen quite a few observations that post a photo and then provide a link to the video.
This giant Snapping Turtle tumbles off a beaver lodge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLBKoedwVc
This Turtle tries log rolling unsuccessfully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZ1GuXROj8
There’s an animated observations project
If I have a short video I’ll make a gif to post and if there’s more for a video I’ll link to it in the observation.
it’s probably not a good idea to load animated gifs these days (if it ever even was a good idea).
i think it’s just better to load videos to YouTube or something similar, and then link back to the video on your iNat observation. if nothing else, you’ll get a broader audience for your videos.
Yeah, I’ve read that but will continue as long as I’m able.
When I was still living in Germany, the breeding season of our early amphibians was the most amazing time for me… I never missed it and I am still sorry that I do not have that anymore (and actually, lost most of these observations due to a harddrive crash in 2015… people, backup! :-) ).
Moor frogs at the spwaning grounds:
https://vimeo.com/64227318
https://vimeo.com/64659211
Common toad:
male defending its female
https://vimeo.com/162041365
mating ball
https://vimeo.com/264064434
And from Naimiba
Barking Gecko (only sound and habitat)
https://vimeo.com/153224874
(pic of one of theme in this obs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37900160)
Dwarf Puff Adder aiming to use my shadow… and me realizing in the end and quickly fleeing g
https://vimeo.com/156272384
I have a short video showing an Eastern Chipmunk, Green Frog, Midland Painted Turtles and Great Blue Heron. It was made in Six Mile Lake Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. I admit that the music is not that great, but finding appropriate free music is sometimes problematic. I hope my future videos will be better!
Videos are much better then GIFs! In video your can show more of animal’s behaviour then in GIF
I agree. I actually don’t really like gifs but that’s all we can do on Inat to show a critter moving. A video can be linked to in a posted observation but it can’t be uploaded to inat, therefore a gif or photo is like a preview of the video posted elsewhere, if there is one. Most of my gifs are only 5 seconds long and I sometimes don’t have enough footage to justify uploading elsewhere anyway. I started videoing fast little creatures because it was easier to go back through the video and find a decent photo than hoping it would stop for that perfect shot.
Mine is on Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/jason.hernandez.33234/videos/10216543522564726)
The caption on that Facebook post says, “Nature does not discriminate between her own constructions and ours.” These tadpoles were in a neglected jacuzzi.
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