Colossal Squid on the Move at Te Papa (its all happening right now!)
(with links to live video stream)- Updated - added linux compatible links...
At present the team at Te - Papa are moving the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, from its
preservation tank to its purpose built display tank,
they have a live video feeds of the progress here:
This video is available in several qualities:
> Dial-up with a slow modem and cell phone connections (28 kbps)
> Dial-up internet (56 kbps)
> Slow broadband (128 kbps)
> Average broadband (384 kbps)
> High speed broadband (2 Mbps)
More information over at the Te Papa Squid Blog.
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/category/colossal-squid/
As this particular format is typically not that friendly to those of us not using windows,
the Linux (and other non-windows OS) direct stream connections are
384kbps here: mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/r2-stream-1
and the
2megabit stream here: mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/r2-stream-5
if you are not sure to do it, and you are running something like Ubuntu, the easiest way is to bring up a console and type in / paste the following command:
mplayer mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/r2-stream-1
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