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10. Primates
Primates are just like humans - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centred. \n\nHuge armies of Hamadryas baboons, 400 strong, battle on the plains of Ethiopia to steal females and settle old scores. Japanese macaques in Japan beat the cold by lounging in thermal springs, but only if they come from the right family. An orangutan baby fails in its struggle to make an umbrella out of leaves to keep off the rain. Young capuchins cannot quite get the hang of smashing nuts with a large rock, a technique their parents have perfected. Chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives, have created an entire tool kit to get their food.
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10. Primates
Primates are just like humans - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centred. \n\nHuge armies of Hamadryas baboons, 400 strong, battle on the plains of Ethiopia to steal females and ...
16-10-2024
BBC 2
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9. Plants
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's. \n\nInnovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like f ...
15-10-2024
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8. Creatures Of The Deep
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, and thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans. \n\nDivers swim into a shoal of predatory ...
14-10-2024
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7. Hunters And Hunted
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 does something unique: ...
10-10-2024
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6. Insects
There are 200 million insects for each of us. They are the most successful animal group ever. Their key is an armoured covering that takes on almost any shape. \n\nDarwin's stag ...
09-10-2024
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5. Birds
Birds owe their global success to feathers - something no other animal has. They allow birds to do extraordinary things.\n\nFor the first time, a slow-motion camera captures the ...
08-10-2024
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4. Fish
Fish dominate the planet's waters through their astonishing variety of shape and behaviour. \n\nThe beautiful weedy sea dragon looks like a creature from a fairy tale, and the m ...
07-10-2024
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3. Mammals
Mammals dominate the planet. They do it through having warm blood and by the care they lavish on their young. Weeks of filming in the bitter Antarctic winter reveal how a mother ...
03-10-2024
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2. Reptiles And Amphibians
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02-10-2024
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1. Challenges Of Life
In nature, living long enough to breed is a monumental struggle. Many animals and plants go to extremes to give themselves a chance. \n\nUniquely, three brother cheetahs band to ...
01-10-2024
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7. Hunters And Hunted
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 does something unique: ...
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BBC 2
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10. Primates
Primates are just like humans - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centred. \n\nHuge armies of Hamadryas baboons, 400 strong, battle on the plains of Ethiopia to steal females and ...
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4. Fish
Fish dominate the planet's waters through their astonishing variety of shape and behaviour. \n\nThe beautiful weedy sea dragon looks like a creature from a fairy tale, and the m ...
07-10-2024
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1. Challenges Of Life
In nature, living long enough to breed is a monumental struggle. Many animals and plants go to extremes to give themselves a chance. \n\nUniquely, three brother cheetahs band to ...
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BBC 2
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8. Creatures Of The Deep
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, and thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans. \n\nDivers swim into a shoal of predatory ...
14-10-2024
BBC 2
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5. Birds
Birds owe their global success to feathers - something no other animal has. They allow birds to do extraordinary things.\n\nFor the first time, a slow-motion camera captures the ...
08-10-2024
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2. Reptiles And Amphibians
Reptiles and amphibians look like hang-overs from the past. But they overcome their shortcomings through amazing innovation. \n\nThe pebble toad turns into a rubber ball to roll ...
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9. Plants
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's. \n\nInnovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like f ...
15-10-2024
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3. Mammals
Mammals dominate the planet. They do it through having warm blood and by the care they lavish on their young. Weeks of filming in the bitter Antarctic winter reveal how a mother ...
03-10-2024
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6. Insects
There are 200 million insects for each of us. They are the most successful animal group ever. Their key is an armoured covering that takes on almost any shape. \n\nDarwin's stag ...
09-10-2024
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