BBC's 'Life'

Its a new BBC nature documentary with David Attenborough. Absolutely lovely, the bit with the Frog giving each of its tadpoles 'piggybacks' to safety brought a tear to my eye. As did when the body of the Penguin sank to the bottom of the ocean. The 'making of' at the end was great too. They are definitely dedicated to their work.

Catch up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ncr13/Life_Challenges_of_Life/ (UK only I think.)

Hadn't even heard about this. Good work, Daryl.

saw it was great, octopus, that wide eyed fly and the venus flytraps awesome!

Placidburp, child, i watched the documentary last night and was amazed at the footage. The red frog (no smaller than the size of a sthumbnail) climbing a tree over and over again with its tadpoles on its back, to let its children live. The saddening sacrifice of the mother octupus, finding a cave to shelter to raise its brood, lay her eggs and effectively starving herself. The beutiful greeds (they look like ducks with cool teddy boy quiffs) dancing on water. Also The flying fish, fleeing for their lives. Breathtaking.

But i think the bit with the leopard seal "flaying" the baby pengin to death was too much. Vicious. As was "the band of brother" leopards working as a team to brutally kill an ostrich.

Ooh, I'm a big fan of the Planet Earth series, hopefully the Discovery Channel or BBC America shows this in the US eventually.

Found a clip on youtube, but yeah try an see it all.

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it depresses me to know how old david attenborough is. there is no one else remotely as good as him. nigel marven is a populistic twat, and dawkins pisses everyone the fuck off with his smugness.

the world will soon be biology-tv-show-presenter-less.

this programme was great. eagerly awaiting the next episode...

New episode tonight!!!

Will be watching this. Tonight's episode is about reptiles/amphibians.

awesome series

5 minutes! get bbc on!!!!

*gets the bbc on*

*goes mental*

Just watched the 1st episode in glorious 1080i HD mahfucker

Really enjoyed it. Ive got all the planet earth eps in hd and still havent finished watching em all. need to finish watching the south pacific series as well.

Got a bit upset with the octopus thing. That's what u call a sacrifice. Also felt bad for that poor little penguin, stupid fucking greedy seal! :angry:

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*tries BBC on receiver*

My receiver only has BBC world...

but that uk streaming thing works on linux, thanks a lot!

  On 10/19/2009 at 8:05 PM, Donkey Rhubarb said:

Just watched the 1st episode in glorious 1080i HD mahfucker

 

Really enjoyed it. Ive got all the planet earth eps in hd and still havent finished watching em all. need to finish watching the south pacific series as well.

 

Got a bit upset with the octopus thing. That's what u call a sacrifice. Also felt bad for that poor little penguin, stupid fucking greedy seal! :angry:

no spoilers!

Some amazing shots again in this episode.

Can't wait for the next episode.

komodo dragons are scary srs bsns

The tiny little water repellant lizard was awesome.

  On 10/19/2009 at 11:04 PM, kaini said:

komodo dragons are scary srs bsns

Just the laziest apex predator I've ever seen. Would quite like a pack of them for the garden though.

They are kinda cute really. That poor, poor buffalo though.

hahaha holy shit, meerkats falling asleep standing up!

Meerkats aren't quite as sweet as made out. The reason that there is only one breeding pair at a time within a group is because the alpha pair will eat the offspring of betas. They don't tell you that on comparethemeerkat.com.

Edit: which is pretty common behaviour amongst mammals. I wonder if there's a few recessive genes in our own makeup that give us a taste for infanticide.