Guest placidburp Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Hadn't even heard about this. Good work, Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Moss Acid Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 saw it was great, octopus, that wide eyed fly and the venus flytraps awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Clitterhaus Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Kingdom Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Ooh, I'm a big fan of the Planet Earth series, hopefully the Discovery Channel or BBC America shows this in the US eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Found a clip on youtube, but yeah try an see it all. [youtubehd]zj7cY3w4tb4[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest margaret thatcher Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 this programme was great. eagerly awaiting the next episode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 New episode tonight!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Will be watching this. Tonight's episode is about reptiles/amphibians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 awesome series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 5 minutes! get bbc on!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 *gets the bbc on* *goes mental* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Donkey Rhubarb Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you. *tries BBC on receiver* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 http://forum.watmm.com/topic/49657-stream-25-uk-freeview-channels-through-vlc/page__hl__freeview__fromsearch__1 just remembered about this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 My receiver only has BBC world... but that uk streaming thing works on linux, thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Some amazing shots again in this episode. The scenes with the Chameleons tongue action was fantastic. And Jesus lizard was super too. Poor Buffalo. :( Can't wait for the next episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 komodo dragons are scary srs bsns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 The tiny little water repellant lizard was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakapo Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 They are kinda cute really. That poor, poor buffalo though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 hahaha holy shit, meerkats falling asleep standing up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakapo Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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