Venezuela is famous for its lost worlds, its forbidding mountains, huge swamps, and impenetrable jungles, all seemingly cut off in space and time. Yet each is linked, by the mighty river: the Orinoco, the rumoured route to El Dorado, city of gold.
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A compelling documentary that explores a previously unknown phenomenon of how animals around the world use their senses to predict approaching disasters.
Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy, an epic struggle for survival where whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and billions of fish collide with mankind during one of nature's greatest migration spectacles.
From mountain to sea, and from scorching desert to Arctic tundra, Europe's great wilderness contains a stunning and surprising explosion of life. Wildest Europe reveals the incredible beauty and diversity of wildlife in Europe's major natural habitats.
From mountain to sea, and from scorching desert to Arctic tundra, Europe's great wilderness contains a stunning and surprising explosion of life. Wildest Europe reveals the incredible beauty and diversity of wildlife in Europe's major natural habitats.
A dramatic and poignant portrayal of the fragile alliances and desperate strategies for survival adopted by three species of animals caught in the no-man's-land where the human and natural worlds collide.
The cloud rainforest is a unique ecosystem that grows in equatorial regions, perched on peaks of over two thousand meters, where clouds permanently deposit water and the weather is cold.
Some of the forests with most character in the world are the juniper woods. Each juniper tree has its own shape. Juniper woodlands are open and adapted to the cold and dry climates.
Venezuela is famous for its lost worlds, its forbidding mountains, huge swamps, and impenetrable jungles, all seemingly cut off in space and time. Yet each is linked, by the mighty river: the Orinoco, the rumoured route to El Dorado, city of gold.
The film follows a year in the High Arctic, where life is exceptionally entwined with the seasons. Journey to the Arctic where in winter, the sun doesn't rise for months on end, but in the summer thaws out in an explosion of life.
Shrouded in myth and legend, the forests of Germany are world famous, thanks to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. The strange creatures that actually live there are shown in the episode Forests of the four-part series Wild Germany. A lynx out hunting, red deer stags roar to call their harems together, wild boar forage in dead leaves looking for nuts. When one considers how densely populated it is, Germany is home to a surprising number of different species. Around one third of the country is covered in forest. Forests enters a world full of magic and shows the secretive inhabitants you won't see when out for a walk. Spring in the Black Forest brings out the cherry blossom. Not long now, and the fruit used to make the famous Black Forest Gâteau will appear. A doe has deposited its fawn in the high grass under the trees. Nearby, a vixen is on the look-out for food for her cubs. She would just about be able to handle the fawn ... Life in the forest is full of drama. Humans are rarely seen, the animal adventures take place behind a thick curtain of leaves. The wildcat and the lynx have managed to reconquer some regions from which they had long disappeared. For rare animals like black stork and stag beetle, the woods offer a last refuge. The best nature film-makers in Germany spent more than five years travelling the country from the Harz mountains to the Bavarian Forest, from Saxonian Switzerland to the Palatinate Forest, collecting material on the secret lives of forest dwellers.
With the family split having become permanent, Rocket Dog's Whiskers loses Zaphod and a large group of males.
African rainforests are the oldest in the world. They are inhabited by some of the most legendary animals, such as gorillas, chimpanzees and okapi.
The coastal regions of the Old Continent are occupied by an evergreen forest that reach to the very edge of the sea.
One of the strangest ecosystems on the planet is the Spiny Forest of Madagascar where almost all the plants are armed with thorns like daggers.
On the remote coastline of Australia's northwest, there are great natural wonders to be found. Above the sea on this sunbaked coast, there is very little only a sparse landscape shaped by the arid conditions. But here, the miracle reveals itself…
Daintree National Park is a magical meeting of rainforest and reef, lying at the heart of the world heritage listed wet tropics of Queensland.
The Baltic Sea is the youngest ocean in the world and first evolved after the last Ice Age. We think we know everything about it, yet still it has many surprises in store. Wind and waves still shape the shores of the Baltic Sea to this day. The third episode takes us to the Bay of Bothnia. More than double the size of the Netherlands, it is the most unknown region of the Baltic Sea. In the winter, the Baltic Sea freezes over at a length of 300 kilometres. In this 1-metre-thick ice tank, the third species of seal - alongside the grey seal and common seal - copes well with the Baltic Sea. The ringed seal is perfectly adapted to the Arctic winter and carves out breathing holes into the ice. More than 10,000 of the animals still live between Sweden and Finland. The Bay of Bothnia only has a salt content of just 1%, which is why it freezes quicker than other regions of the Baltic Sea. Many rivers disembogue here and “sweeten” the sea. The Tornio is the longest natural river in Europe. It forms the border between Sweden and Finland. Even when frost is severe, the Kukkolaforsen rapids in Sweden never freeze over, otters go hunting here. When it gets dark in the winter, solar winds conjure colourful light effects in the Baltic Sea sky. The Aurora Borealis can be seen in the northern regions of the Baltic Sea as of mid-October. The coast of Lapland is also the home of the reindeer. The Sami's, reindeer breeders, bring their herds in winter to the Baltic Sea, as the snow is not as deep here as it is further inland and the animals have better access to lichens and mosses. When Lapland's coast is still frozen, 300 kilometres further south in the Kvarken Archipelago, a special spectacle takes place. Millions of fish head for the coast. Barrier beaches prevent them from reaching the coastal lagoons. They can only spawn where the water is salt-free.
Wildest Middle East reveals the remotest and most surprising corners of this ancient land, where you will find nothing is as it seems and where the natural world is fighting a constant battle to survive in an ever changing world.
Sex is at the heart of everything. It's the only real way of leaving a legacy - in the genes of the future. But there's more than just the act - it's the build up to it when wildlife shows its incredible diversity. It drives touching courtships and fierce battles. Hormones and sex drive are forces that shape behaviour and can change an animal's purpose and persona. This is the story of how wild things get sexy. Without sex, there's nothing. It's a driving force throughout nature. The act of sex is mostly to make babies, but let's face it, its foreplay that really counts - it brings out the best and the worst in the animal kingdom. Pre-coital courtship can give pleasure, but also gives the participants the chance to check each other out and make sure they've found the perfect match. It affects us all. Birds do it, bees do it, all the way through the animals kingdom. From fire flies who mix up their own chemistry sets to fill the forest with mood lighting, to mayflies that emerge on mass, by the millions to mate. Their vast orgies attract predators of all sizes. Fish risk their lives climbing rivers from the sea, and a barrage of bears and other predators - just for sex - but the mission is so strenuous it kills them, as soon as their eggs are laid, they wither and die. Sex and the hormones that drive it can turn cute and cuddly into a sex beast. It turns out the koala is a sex maniac, more into rape than romance. Many mammals, from guanaco (wild llama) to hippos chase, wrestle and bite their way to a romantic interlude. Huge male red Kangaroos even box. When it comes to wild sex, mammals are amazing, but its birds that are the real show stoppers. From dazzling peacocks to booming bustards, fighting turkeys to dancing birds of paradise, birds go all out on foreplay - though you sometimes have to wonder if it's worth it - after all that parading their sex is over in seconds There's a lot of effort for very little reward.
Containing one third of the world's trees, the frozen forests of the Taiga are the lungs of the planet. This great forest spans across shores of the Pacific, sheltering some of the Earth's most majestic animals, and some of its most secretive.
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