Edgar P. Chance
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Biography
Edgar Percival Chance was a British businessman, ornithologist and oologist who amassed a collection of 25,000 birds' eggs.
Known For
The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate feed and tend the young cuckoo, even to the detriment of their own chicks.
The Cuckoo's Secret
These pictures show the marvellous industry of the Bee, the ingenuity it exercises in making its home, and the ordered programme of life that it appears to follow.
Busy Bees
A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.
The Life Story of the Cuckoo
A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.
The Home Wrecker
The pictures show how the ailanthus silkmoth and the red admiral spin silk and weave a cocoon, and the way in which the change from caterpillar to moth is affected.