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They look exactly like protruding twigs, until they spring forward and snag insects with their front legs, devouring them in a most un-caterpillar-like way. A mother shrew leads her young in a mouth-to-tail caravan. Two hedgehogs mate very carefully, so goes the joke. A pangolin—a cross between an anteater and an artichoke—trundles along on two legs.
And viewers who are already mewling over the adorable elephant shrew will implode at the sight of its baby. Those bats are as bad as the leafcutter ants; they show up everywhere. Highlights: A tie between two bats. Meanwhile, the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bats spend a third of their time scurrying through the leaf litter and grabbing crickets.
Attenborough count: 6, including watching frigate bird males inflating their red chest balloons; looking at albatrosses fencing with their beaks; and spying on the surprisingly complicated sex lives of the seemingly dull hedge sparrow. Highlight: Attenborough stands next to an amorous capercaille—a large black grouse. Its sequences are shorter, perhaps due to the constraints of s filmography, but it compensates by showing a wider variety of species to greater effect.
Attenborough count : Er, between 8 and 10, depending on whose finger is in a couple of shots. Highlight : A male pipa toad clings to a female. She lays eggs and he sweeps them onto her back. They stick, and her skin grows around them, at first forming gross craters and then enveloping the completely in skin. Plants may seem passive, but this episode reveals the intense competition they face. We see seedlings racing to ascend a tree, oaks outlasting birches, and fungi not plants, as Attenborough notes devouring the dead.
And continuing the theme of this series, in which plants are the protagonists and animals their sidekicks, Attenborough portrays tree-demolishing elephants as the means through which grasses outcompete bigger plants.
Highlight: Many plants have adapted to survive fires, and thrive after them. The mountain ash, a type of eucalyptus, actually relies on fire to spread its seeds. Aired on 16 January , this is chronologically the first episode in this list. Or, once it moves onto animals, focusing on the simplest of them, such as sponges and jellyfish? Or, for that matter, opening with a ten-minute monologue about the theory of evolution by natural selection, and how Darwin conceived it?
Or having such a sinister and unsettling score? All of this works because of Attenborough. Attenborough count: 11, including sailing to the Galapagos and sitting among giant tortoises; riding a donkey into the Grand Canyon and then looking at fossils; walking over stromatolites rocks produced by ancient bacteria in Australia; and diving among corals in a gaudy crimson wetsuit. Highlight: That first shot of Attenborough talking straight into the camera about evolution.
His hair is still brown, his body is lithe, and his grin is cheeky. You might fall slightly in love with him. Attenborough explores how animals find and build their homes. The Indian tailorbird sews leaves together with spider silk; hermit crabs jostle for seashells in an underwater real estate market; weaver birds thread grass stems into hanging apartments; and a potter wasp fashions mud into delicate urns.
Attenborough count: 9, including huddling by a campfire in a Welsh cave; using a smoky candle to illustrate the ventilation systems of prairie dog burrows; and being drenched in a rainforest while looking for tent-making bats. Highlight: having shown us the exterior of a towering African termite mound, Attenborough sticks his disheveled head into its basement. They are made of mud and they absorb moisture from the colony above.
Termites, with neither plan not intellect, build air-conditioning systems. Attenborough count: 8, including rowing along a Brazilian river in search of a potoo, camouflaged as a tree branch; trolling a Magellanic woodpecker by thumping a tree trunk; ascending to the rainforest canopy to hear the piercingly loud bare-throated bellbird and screaming piha; and listening to a British dawn chorus.
Highlight: A lyrebird mimics birds in the local area. Then, it makes a clicking, whirring noise. And now a camera with a motor drive. And now the sounds of foresters and their chainsaws working nearby. Remember the spitting cobra faux-troversy from 24? In that sequence, Attenborough used a captive cobra to show how a wild one behaves, and he never made a claim about the wildness of the filmed individual.
And, to date, there are no examples of wild lyrebirds mimicking man-made equipment. I think this crosses a line. It shows how amazing the lyrebird is at mimicry, but it also explicitly misleads us. This episode about predators and prey largely avoids the classic lions and bears in favor of less obvious hunters like the greater black-backed gull, which attacks puffins; the death adder, which lures prey with a wriggling, worm-like tail; and Harris hawks, which are the only birds of prey that hunt in teams.
Defending themselves are a salamander that sticks its own ribs through its skin; a caterpillar that mimics a snake; and a frog with a face on its bum. Highlight: Another tie, between chimps working as a team to kill a colobus monkey, and killer whales beaching themselves to capture sea lions. Both behaviors highlight the intelligence of these hunters and both are testament to nature red in tooth and claw.
Either would guarantee an episode a high rank; together, they make this one a classic. Attenborough meets the lizards. Baby lace monitors hatching in a termite mound are rescued by their mother. South African dwarf chameleons court and give birth to the most adorable babies. The huge perentie, a type of monitor lizard, runs down a rabbit. Highlight: I did not expect to be deeply moved by a sequence involving shingleback lizards, which look like pine cones crossed with turds.
They form life-long bonds, so that even if one is turned into roadkill, the other will stay with the body. Also, the female gives birth to live youngsters that are almost as big as she is.
The ogre-faced spider holds its web in its legs and throws it onto passing insects. The bolas spider swings a silken lasso at moths that it lures with a sexually attractive pheromone. Social spiders collectively weave huge tree-top webs.
And the redback creates a forest of taut threads, so that any insect blundering into it is catapulted off the ground and suspended in mid-air. Attenborough count : 6, including being startled by a trapdoor spider; looking at the triangular bungee web of Hyptyotes ; and standing in a cave lit by thousands of glow-worms.
Flamingoes raise their chicks among caustic alkaline lakes. Sand grouse dip their breast feathers in rare puddles of desert water and give their chicks something to drink from. Murmurations of starlings ripple over European cities. Attenborough talks about the dodo, the birds of Guam that were wiped out by introduced snakes, and the passenger pigeon—once the most numerous bird on Earth, and now extinct thanks to us. Attenborough count: 8, including watching hand-reared whooping cranes being led by conservationists in a glider; watching purple martins descend upon an oil refinery in Brazil; and standing in a field, observing zero passenger pigeons.
Highlight: In Japan, a crow has learned to crack nuts by waiting at traffic signals and putting them in front of car tires. In focusing on animal behavior, and not being restricted to any one group or habitat, it offers shot after shot of different species—often very obscure ones—doing the most spectacular things.
This opening episode has millions of Christmas Island crabs blackening the ocean water with their eggs; hermaphroditic giant clams releasing giant clouds of sperm and eggs; male pipefish getting pregnant; a tsetse fly doing an impression of a mammal by giving birth to a live and horrifyingly large grub; a bat giving birth upside-down and catching her baby in her own tail; and the grisly sight of parasitic wasp grubs exploding out of a caterpillar host.
Attenborough count : 4, including watching those crabs; and looking bemused as a mallee fowl kicks sand at his face and then playfully by flicking the sand back.
Highlight: Matriphagy! Here, we see the challenges that plants face as they grow. And he talks about defenses: the pebble plant looks exactly like a rock, while the passion flower uses yellow spots that look like butterfly eggs to deter butterflies from laying actual eggs onto it. Attenborough count: a record-breaking 18, including deliberately touching a nettle to show how its sting works; holding up the biggest pitcher plant Nepenthes raja , large enough to catch small rodents; walking among the giant sequoias; and demonstrating the rapid movements of the sensitive mimosa.
Another touch, and the stem suddenly collapses—and the insect disappears. Highlight: The supremely old and fabulously gnarled bristlecone pine. The camera pans along a cross-section of its trunk as Attenborough points out growth rings that it laid down when Columbus reached the New World, when Egyptian pharaohs were building pyramids, and when humans were inventing agriculture.
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