Starting this weekend on June 2nd, the Science Spectrum unveils the newest OMNI theater movie, “Amazon Adventure”. It tells the epic, true story or explorer Henry Bates’ fascinating 11 year journey through the visually stunning and bio diverse Amazon rainforest as a young man who risks his life for science in the 1950’s. As in any great detective story, audiences will experience the compelling clues Bates unearths in his major discovery of the phenomenon of mimicry, whereby certain animals adopt the look of others that helps them deceive predators and gain an advantage to survive. Little known to the public, Bates made other crucial contributions to biology: identifying 8,000 species new to science and most importantly, putting forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, which Charles Darwin called the “beautiful proof” for Natural Selection. Audiences will be wowed by the mind boggling examples of camouflage and mimicry and inspired by Bates’ endless curiosity and determination to explore the wilds of nature from the time he was a young boy. As in SK’s award winning Flight of the Butterflies, nature is extraordinary and science is adventure, just waiting to be discovered.
We discussed some of the Science Spectrum animal residents that display camouflage and mimicry or would come from a rainforest environment.
Summer camps begin next week and run through the second week of August.
And…Critterfest ’17 is coming up on June 22nd through 25th.
To get more information check out their website sciencespectrum.org
