Life
Life
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Description
This epic natural history series reveals the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action; individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment, pushing the boundaries of behavior. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Episodes
Reptiles and Amphibians
Season 1: Episode 2TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Reptiles and amphibians look like hang-overs from the past. But they overcome their shortcomings through amazing innovation. The pebble toad turns into a rubber ball to roll and bounce from its enemies and extreme slow-motion shows how a Jesus Christ lizard runs on water. In a TV first, komodo dragons hunt a huge water-buffalo, biting it to inject venom, then waiting for weeks until it dies.
2. Reptiles and Amphibians58 Min10/19/2009$2.99
Fish
Season 1: Episode 4TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Fish dominate the planet's waters through their astonishing variety of shape and behavior. Slow-motion cameras show flying fish gliding through the air and capture the world's fastest swimmer, the sailfish, plucking sardines from a shoal at 70 mph. And the tiny Hawaiian goby undertakes one of nature's most daunting journeys, climbing a massive waterfall to find safe pools for breeding.
4. Fish58 Min11/2/2009$2.99
Birds
Season 1: Episode 5TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Birds owe their global success to feathers - something no other animal has. They allow birds to do extraordinary things. Aerial photography takes us into the sky with an Ethiopian Lammergeier dropping bones to smash them into edible-sized bits, while thousands of pink flamingoes promenade in one of nature's greatest spectacles.
5. Birds58 Min11/9/2009$2.99
Insects
Season 1: Episode 6TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
There are 200 million insects for each of us. They are the most successful animal group ever. Their key is an armored covering that takes on almost any shape. Darwin's stag beetle fights in the tree tops with huge curved jaws. The camera flies with millions of monarch butterflies which migrate 2000 miles, navigating by the sun and a honey bee army stings a raiding bear into submission.
6. Insects58 Min11/16/2009$2.99
Hunters and Hunted
Season 1: Episode 7TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of hunters and hunted. In a TV first, a killer whale off the Falklands sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim and snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. Young ibex soon learn the only way to escape a fox is to run up an almost vertical cliff face.
7. Hunters and Hunted58 Min11/23/2009$2.99
Creatures of the Deep
Season 1: Episode 8TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, and thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans. Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs and watch as cuttlefish gather to mate, their bodies flash in stroboscopic colors. A giant octopus commits suicide for her young.
8. Creatures of the Deep58 Min11/30/2009$2.99
Plants
Season 1: Episode 9TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as innovative and manipulative as any animal’s. Stunning time-lapse photography reveals a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. The dragon's blood tree acts as an upturned umbrella to capture mist and shade its roots. The heliconia plant enslaves a humming bird and turns it into an addict for its nectar.
9. Plants58 Min12/7/2009$2.99
Primates
Season 1: Episode 10TV Parental Guidelines SystemCCHD
Primates are just like humans - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centered. Armies of Hamadryas baboons, 400 strong, battle on the plains of Ethiopia to steal females and settle old scores. An orangutan baby fails in its struggle to make an umbrella out of leaves to keep off the rain. Young capuchins can't get the hang of smashing nuts with a large rock, a technique their parents have perfected.
10. Primates58 Min12/14/2009$2.99
Additional information
Networks
BBC Earth
Subtitles
English (CC)
Age rating
Duration
8 Episodes (7 H 48 Min)
Audio
English
Released year
2009
Genres
Documentary/Bio
Additional terms
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