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Australian-based wildlife filmmaker focussed on showcasing the small and underappreciated creatures of the planet.

17/10/2026

🎥 Filmed by Jordan Dean
🌏 Cardwell, Queensland, Australia
🦘Agile Wallabies (Notamacropus agilis)
🐦‍⬛Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

17/08/2026

Lichen spiders! One of the coolest spiders I’ve seen. Have you ever spotted one before? 🔎🕷️The trick to finding them is to shine a bright light where you think one might be (usually lichen/mossy covered trees). Their eyes are highly reflective, making them easy to pinpoint ✨

🎥 Filmed by Jordan Dean
🌏 Far North Queensland, Australia
🕷️ Australian lichen spiders (Pandercetes gracilis)

28/07/2026

Another film I shot for Deep Look just dropped! Had good fun filming this episode, even though I must have been bitten by green ants like 1000 times over! 😅

Watch it for free on their YouTube channel. Let them know I sent you 😉💬 Link in my bio (under collaborations). What should I film for Deep Look next? Any ideas? 🤔🐜🐛🐞 🐸 🦂

🎥 Filmed by Jordan Dean
🌏 Far North Queensland, Australia
🐜 Green Tree Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina)
🕷️ Crab Spider (Amyciaea sp.)
🕷️ Comb-footed Spider (Propostira sp.)
🕷️ Jumping Spider (Cosmophasis bitaeniata)
🪲 Bean Bugs (Riptortus sp.)

23/07/2026

The Daintree Rainforest never fails to surprise me. Whenever I visit, I'll be constantly finding animals I've never seen before, sometimes several in a day! It really is my version of Disney Land 😌

Does anyone have any idea which species this guy could be? 🤔🔎

🪲 True Bug (Infraorder Cicadomorpha)
🎥 Filmed by Jordan Dean
🌏 Far North Queensland, Australia

03/07/2026

New YouTube film on mudskippers! They’ve got to be one of the weirdest animals I’ve ever had the chance to film…and definitely one of the most challenging.

They’re tiny and incredibly skittish, the slightest movement would send them skipping away. Most of my time was spent slowly crawling through waist-deep mud, trying to get close, then sitting as still as I could until they decided I was just part of the scenery. By the end of it, I was so covered in mud I probably made for a pretty convincing log. A few times they even start crawling up onto me.

Moments like these are what I love most about wildlife filmmaking. Spending time in an animal’s world, and being able to witness their natural behaviours, always feels worth the effort. Even if I did smell like mangrove mud for a solid two weeks! 😅

Watch the full episode on the YouTube channel: Deep Look. The link is in my profile under ‘Collaborations’.”

Have you ever seen a mudskipper before?

🐟 Australian Mudskippers
🎥 Filmed by
🌏 Far North Queensland, Australia

09/01/2026

A koala drinking from the ground isn’t “cute”, it’s a warning sign 🐨💧⚠️

Koalas normally get almost all their water from eucalyptus leaves and rarely descend just to drink. Because droughts and heatwaves are drying out their leafy homes, this gives them no choice but to descend to survive.

When coming to ground, koalas become exposed to serious threats, like car strikes, foxes, dogs, cats, and more.

This shift in koala behaviour is happening more often as climate change drives hotter, and more prolonged heatwaves and bushfires, like those we’re currently seeing across Victoria today 🔥

Koalas also have fewer trees to seek refuge in than ever before, as we continue to shrink and fragment their habitats through deforestation.

If we want iconic animals like koalas to thrive (not just scrape by), we need to tackle the root cause of these issues. One of the most effective ways we can reduce our carbon footprint, limit deforestation, and help slow the climate crisis, is by going vegan today 🌎💚

🐨Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
🎥Filmed by
🌏Tocumwal Regional Park, Victoria, Australia

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