An investigation into an unusual phenomenon - huge numbers of penguins have invaded South African beaches and set up colonies among humans.
Where did they come from and why?
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【内陆刺客】 Outback Assassin
David Attenborough investigates the strange death of a kangaroo in the Australian outback. Found at the edge of a bushfire, there's good reason to suspect foul play - from snakes and spiders, killer crocodiles and crafty dingoes. This story is based on real events in the natural world and draws on the latest forensic science to solve
the crime.
【海洋刺客】 Ocean Assassin
David Attenborough investigates the strange death of a green turtle. Found on a beautiful beach in Costa Rica, suspects include crocodiles, big cats, sharks, sword fish and poisonous jellyfish. CCTV surveillance cameras reveal the final piece in the jigsaw.
【极圈刺客】 Arctic Assassin
David Attenborough investigates the strange death of a caribou in Alaska. There are plenty of killers in the frame - wolves, bears and eagles - but none of the facts seem to fit the evidence. As the story unfolds, it is clear that the snow and ice is hiding a sinister secret.
【非洲刺客】 African Assassin
David Attenborough investigates the strange death of a young Thomson's gazelle on the plains of Africa. There are plenty of killers in the frame for the murder - big cats, jackals, hyenas, vultures and giant snakes - but who is responsible?
【亚马逊刺客】 Amazon Assassin
David Attenborough investigates the death of a harmless three-toed sloth in the Amazon jungle. The main evidence is intriguing and there are plenty of killers in the frame including deadly jaguars, killer bees and crafty boa constrictors. But all is not what it seems.
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Badgers: Secrets of the Sett《獾洞秘密》
Deep in a picturesque Devon valley lives the best loved wild animal in Britain. Yet while the badger is easily recognised, remarkably few people have ever seen one alive. For a creature never far from controversy and blamed for all manner of destruction and disease, surprisingly little is known about the badger's private family life.
Using the latest research and hidden cameras this film exposes the secrets of life in the sett. These are badgers as never seen before.
Badgers: Secrets of the Sett《獾洞秘密》
在风景如画的英国德文谷深处，生活着大量可爱的野生动物。虽然獾很容易辨别，但没有多少人亲眼见过。对于一个始终没有远离争议和被指责为携带各种有害疾病的动物，竟然没人对他的私人生活有所了解。
现在，利用最新的研究和隐蔽拍摄技术，揭开它那不为人知的秘密生活。
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Battle to Save the Tiger《拯救野生虎的战役》
The Indian tiger is in deep trouble. Thirty years ago India set aside over 30 tiger reserves controlled by Project Tiger. Initially it was hailed as a great success, but in the last few years hundreds of tigers have been poached from under officials' noses according to WPSI (Wildlife Protection Society of India) run by Belinda Wright.
This film, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, looks at the controversy surrounding the plight of the tiger. Can they come back from the brink of extinction again?
Battle to Save the Tiger《拯救野生虎的战役》
印度虎一直麻烦缠身。30年前，印度利用老虎保育计划挽救了超过30只老虎。起初它被视作是一大成功，但在过去几年里，数百只老虎被由贝琳达赖特控制的WPSI（印度野生动物保护协会）的下属猎杀。
这部由大卫艾登堡讲述的故事，将关注处于困境中的老虎。看它们能否远离灭亡的绝境。
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Bears on the Black Run
Nature documentary following the adventures of two families of black bears who have made their homes on and around the world-famous Whistler Mountain ski resort in Canada, living close to skiers and tourists.
Bears on the Black Run 译名《生活在滑雪胜地的熊》
这是一部自然纪录片，讲述的是两个黑熊家庭在世界知名的滑雪胜地加拿大威士拿山脉建立自己的家，并且生活在非常接近滑雪者和游客的地方。
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Bears: Spy in the Woods《熊: 树林中的窥探》
Sir David Attenborough narrates this look at bears from across the globe through the use of spycams, camoflaged in a variety of disguises from logs, boulders, fish and dustbins.
David Attenborough narrates a documentary on beavers. One of nature's most industrious animals, beavers divert rivers, fell trees and build log cabins. But unlike humans, any one beaver can embody all the skills of a lumberjack, a carpenter, an architect, a surveyor and a hydro-engineer.
Capuchins are the brainiest monkeys in the world, yet strangely those in captivity appear to be much smarter than those in the wild. "Wildlife on One" sets out to discover why. The journey reveals capuchins that are capable of making flint knives, sees monkeys using poker counters like 'monkey money' and witnesses individuals who can cooperate in extraordinary ways. The answer to the Monkey Puzzle is revealed in the jungles of Brazil by a discovery that's rocking the scientific world - wild capuchins are filmed for the first time using hammers and anvils living in a society based entirely on the ability to use tools.(version 2)
Six feet tall, 13 stone, and armed with five-inch claws, cassowaries are birds that deserve respect. So when a cyclone forced dozens of cassowaries out of Australian rainforests and into towns, there was bound to be trouble.
This film follows the dramatic attempts to save these endangered giant birds, and reveals their fascinating natural history for the first time.
Just how smart are monkeys? Their innate curiosity leads them to try new things, but it's their culture - the passing of information from one generation to the next - that teaches them much of what they know. Their young learn by reaching out with their hands to experience the world around them, grasping new objects, slowly piecing together an understanding of their society. They learn from their families how to find food, communicate, recognize kin, even use tools, medicine, and language. It is these familiar actions that make monkeys so fascinating to humans. We can see ourselves in their faces, our nature in their actions.
Natural World travels around the world to visit some of these fascinating primates. From tiny pygmy marmoset in South America to aggressive baboons of Africa and compassionate toque macaques in SriLanka, Clever Monkeys challenges many ideas about what is purely "human."
Wildlife film. Many years ago lions thrived in the deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, until they were exterminated by man. Six years ago maverick biologist Flip Stander discovered a tiny remnant population alive and well in nearby mountains, and started to study them. Their numbers have grown and they are now returning to the desert in increasing numbers. But if these lions are to continue roaming here, Flip will have to persuade local people that these lions are worth more alive than dead.
Documentary examining the lives of giant octopuses, filmed in their North Pacific home, as they hunt, fight and care for their young. In one sequence, underwater film-maker Victoria Stone is seen being embraced by a 16-foot giant octopus. The film won four international awards.
Documentary in which David Attenborough investigates the latest discoveries about dolphin intellect. For the first time ever he 'talks' to dolphins, putting them to the test and finding out about their remarkable wild behaviour.
David Attenborough investigates some real dragons, lizards with characteristics as extraordinary as their mythical ancestors. Drawn to fire and sporting amazing colours, the lizards can even fly
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Echo of the Elephants《象群的回声》
Echo is the gentle matriarch of a family of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Watched over by distinguished research scientist and founder of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Cynthia Moss, Echo leads her charge through the rough and the smooth, good times and bad, all captured faithfully on film by award-winning photographer Martyn Colbeck.
In January 1990, Cynthia and Martyn embarked on the first of what would ultimately be four exceptional films produced over thirteen years in the shadow of the Great White Mountain, Kilimanjaro, documenting the lives of one elephant family for the BBC's Natural History Unit. These uniquely moving and unforgettable films have wider implications for our understanding of elephants everywhere.
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Echo of the Elephants
David Attenborough and Cynthia Moss narrate an award-winning film charting eighteen months in the life of Echo, an elephant matriarch, and her family, who live in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
The Next Generation
Research zoologist Cynthia Moss has devoted years of time and energy following a female elephant she named Echo as she led her sprawling family around the Kenyan National Park of Amboseli, and this award-winning film by Martyn Colbeck chronicles 18 months of the small herd's sometimes harsh life.
Africa's Forgotten Elephants Following film-maker Cynthia Moss in her search for the unknown elephants of Africa.
The Final Chapter?
Documentary following the latest chapter in the story of Echo the female elephant and her family in the Kenyan National Park of Amboseli. Scientist Cynthia Moss believes she is charting the 59-year-old matriarch's decline - until she makes a surprising discovery.
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Elephants: Spy in the Herd《象: 兽群中的窥探》
Elephants: Spy In The Herd provides the most intimate portrayal of the everyday life of an elephant herd.Narrated by David Attenborough and filmed over a year, throughout the program the elephant herd exhibits many human similarities: their life span, social structure, wisdom of age and emotional bonds.
The idea of using "character-cameras" is developed even further and the spy-cams help unravel the elephants' intimate story. Three different types of cameras were created: "Dungcam", "Poopcam" and "Plopcam"! By using radical techniques, the disguised cameras capture each dramatic moment of elephant life from extraordinary proximity.
Witness two males clashing over territory, the birth and slow development of a calf and jealous rivalries between herd members. A real sense of these animals' incredible flexibility and intimacy is shown as they bathe in mineral salts, mud and dust, while their astonishing sensory perceptions are also revealed.
The "Dungcams" also interact with the herd in a remarkable way. Dung is important in elephants' lives - so inevitably they are at times interested in the cameras themselves - especially as each one is laced with real elephant dung. With the cameras rolling, the elephants interact with the cameras, kicking them like footballs and going so far as to pick them up and filmthemselves
Sir David Attenborough takes a closer look at misunderstood fruit - bats and the important role they play in countries' agricultural economies.
大卫爱登堡爵士带我们近距离的观察一个误会的结果：蝙蝠和它在国家农业生产上所扮演的重要角色。
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Giant Otters: Wolves of the River《大水獭》
David Attenborough narrates a documentary about six-foot-long otters in the Peruvian Amazon. Despite their size, they are preyed upon by something even bigger, the five-metre black caiman - an alligator-like reptile. This film reveals the high-tension relationship between these two predators.
David Attenborough recounts his very personal experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Ever since they were discovered over a century ago, these remarkable creatures have been threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, disease and political instability. But despite all odds their numbers have increased. David tells the extraordinary tale of how conservationists like Dian Fossey have battled to save the mountain gorilla from the brink of extinction.
Follows the 3 newly discovered gorilla sanctuaries in northern Congo, in search of the true nature of the lowland gorilla - uncovering as tangled a web of romance and friendship, jealousy and innocence as any human soap opera might contrive.
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Great White Shark《大白鲨》
Just the sight of a shark's fin breaking the surface spells terror, but is this Hollywood delivered image fair? Underwater filming of these awesome fish in their natural unabated environments exposes the Great White as a paradox: a shy and cautious creature existing within a highly structured social order, but also a terrific killing machine striking with total surprise and devastating speed from the murky depths.
Few animals can match the intelligence, power or resourcefulness of the North American Bear or "grizzly". This film reveals the more intimate side to the grizzly - how mothers raise and teach their cubs, the playfulness and hardships of adolescence and the rituals of courtship. Most surprising of all is that every grizzly is its own character in looks, temperament and skills.
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Jewel of the Earth《琥珀昆虫》
During the age of dinosaurs, trees began producing a sticky, protective resin that traps and entombs everything it touches. The hardened, honeycolored resin, known as amber, opens a unique window on a lost world of vanished animals and plants, often preserved in exquisite detail.
As a young boy, Sir David Attenborough was given a piece of amber that sparked a life-long interest. In Jewel of the Earth, Attenborough investigates a wealth of embalmed animals and plants, tracing them back to their fascinating origins in the forests of 40 million years ago. Among the highlights of his journey of discovery is a piece of amber that is evidence of the super-continent Pangaea that once united most of Earth’s landmasses.
Snippets of DNA and ancient microbes have been extracted from fragments of amber-preserved insects. Could this research lead scientists to recreate prehistoric creatures, as imagined in the movie Jurassic Park? Join Sir David on this time-traveling detective story as he brings his captivating charm and expert insights to the astonishing, glowing world of ancient amber.
David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the Kea, the world's only alpine parrot. Playful and destructive, it attacks cars, starts landslides and terrorises New Zealand ski resorts but behind the bad behaviour there's a sharp mind at work. David tries to play chess with a kea and discovers how its cheeky character is the key to its survival
Documentary following the killer whale, the most geographically widespread mammal on the planet. It analyses their behaviour to discover why they are so successful.
David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the Crocodiles and alligators who are supreme survivors. In their 200 million years of life on Earth, they've endured massive upheavals of the planet's surface and profound climate change. In our journey through the history, biology and lives of crocodilians we uncover the clues that will help solve an evolutionary mystery - why this group of animals has proved to be virtually indestructible.
Star of nursery rhyme and toyshop, greenfly's terror and gardener's friend, few insects hold such a special place in our affections as the ladybird. Red or yellow, chequered, spotted or plain, this gaudy beetle has captured our imagination. This celebration of ladybirds follows their fortunes from the egg through all the trials of life, until they fly away home.
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Life On Earth《生命的进化》
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The Infinite Variety
Broadcast 16 January 1979, the first episode begins in the South American rainforest, whose rich variety of life forms is used to illustrate the sheer number of different species. Since many are dependent on others for food or means of reproduction, David Attenborough argues that they couldn't all have appeared at once. He sets out to discover which came first, and the reasons for such diversity. He starts by explaining the theories of Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example. Fossils provide evidence of the earliest life, and Attenborough travels a vertical mile into the Grand Canyon in search of them. By the time he reaches the Colorado River bed, the geological strata are 2,000 million years old — yet there are no fossils. However, the "right rocks" are found on the shores of Lake Superior in Canada, where wafer-thin slices of flint, called chert, reveal filaments of primitive algae. Also, the micro-organisms that flourish at Yellowstone Park in Wyoming appear to be identical to the Earth's oldest fossils. The evolution of single-celled creatures, from simple cyanophytes to more complex ciliates, and then from multi-celled sponges and jellyfish to the many variations of coral and its associated polyps, is discussed in detail. The fossilised remains of jellyfish are shown within the Flinders Ranges of Australia, and are estimated to be 650 million years old.
Building Bodies
Broadcast 23 January 1979, the next programme explores the various sea-living invertebrates. In Morocco, the limestones are 600 million years old, and contain many invertebrate fossils. They fall broadly into three categories: shells, crinoids and segmented shells. The evolution of shelled creatures is demonstrated with the flatworm, which eventually changed its body shape when burrowing became a necessity for either food or safety. It then evolved shielded tentacles and the casings eventually enveloped the entire body: these creatures are the brachiopods. The most successful shelled animals are the molluscs, of which there are some 80,000 different species. Some are single-shelled such as the cowrie, while others are bivalves that include the scallop and the giant clam. One species that has remained unchanged for millions of years is the nautilus: it features flotation chambers within its shell, which in turn formed the basis for the ammonites. Crinoids are illustrated by sea lilies, starfish and sea urchins on the Great Barrier Reef. Segmented worms developed to enable sustained burrowing, and well preserved fossils are found in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. These developed into trilobites and crustaceans, and the horseshoe crab is shown nesting in vast numbers on Delaware Bay. While the robber crab breeds in the sea, it is in all other respects a land animal and Attenborough uses it to exemplify the next evolutionary step.
The First Forests
Broadcast 30 January 1979, this instalment examines the earliest land vegetation and insects. The first plants, being devoid of stems, mainly comprised mosses and liverworts. Using both sexual and asexual methods of reproduction, they proliferated. Descended from segmented sea creatures, millipedes were among the first to take advantage of such a habitat and were quickly followed by other species. Without water to carry eggs, bodily contact between the sexes was now necessary. This was problematical for some hunters, such as spiders and scorpions, who developed courtship rituals to ensure that that the female didn't eat the male. Over time, the plants' cell walls strengthened and they grew taller. Ferns and horsetails were among the first such species. Insects then evolved wings to avoid climbing and the dragonfly (which once had a wingspan of 60 centimetres) is one of the most successful. The elaborate wingbeats of the damselfly are shown slowed down 120 times. Some plants, like the cycad enlisted the insects to transport pollen, while others, like the conifer, spread spores. Over a third of forests contain conifers and the giant sequoia of California is the largest living organism of any kind: it grows to a height of 112 metres. The conifer secretes resin to repair its trunk, and this survives as amber. Within it, insect specimens have been found that are 200 million years old. In fact, at this time, every insect known today was already in existence.
The Swarming Hordes
Broadcast 6 February 1979, this episode details the relationship between flowers and insects. There are some one million classified species of insect, and two or three times as many that are yet to be labelled. Around 300 million years ago, plants began to enlist insects to help with their reproduction, and they did so with flowers. Although the magnolia, for instance, contains male and female cells, pollination from another plant is preferable as it ensures greater variation and thus evolution. Flowers advertise themselves by either scent or display. Some evolved to produce sweet-smelling nectar and in turn, several insects developed their mouth parts into feeding tubes in order to reach it. However, to ensure that pollination occurs, some species — such as the orchid — have highly complicated mechanisms that must be negotiated first. Others, such as the yucca and its visiting moths, are dependent on one another. Hunters, such as the mantis, are camouflaged to match the flowers and leaves visited by their prey. Since an insect’s skin is chitinous, it has to shed it periodically in order to grow, and the caterpillar, its chrysalis or cocoon and resulting butterfly or moth is one of the more complex examples. Termites, ants and some bees and wasps overcame any limitations of size by grouping together and forming superorganisms. The green tree ants of south-east Asia are shown to display the most extraordinary co-operation when building their nests.
The Conquest of the Waters
Broadcast 13 February 1979, this programme looks at the evolution of fish. They have developed a multitude of shapes, sizes and methods of propulsion and navigation. The sea quirt, the lancelet and the lamprey are given as examples of the earliest, simplest types. Then, about 400 million years ago, the first back-boned fish appeared. The Kimberley Ranges of Western Australia are, in fact, the remnants of a coral reef and the ancient seabed. There, Attenborough discovers fossils of the earliest fish to have developed jaws. These evolved into two shapes of creature with cartilaginous skeletons: wide ones (like rays and skates) and long ones (like sharks). However, it is the fully boned species that were most successful, and spread from the oceans to rivers and lakes. To adapt to these environments, they had by now acquired gills for breathing, a lateral line to detect movement and a swim bladder to aid buoyancy. Coral reefs contain the greatest variety of species, many of which are conspicuously coloured to ward off predators or attract mates. Their habitat, with its many hiding places within easy reach, allows them to remain so visible. However, the open ocean offers no such refuge, so there is safety in numbers — both hunters and hunted swim in shoals and have streamlined bodies for pursuit or escape. Most species that live below the thermocline, in the freezing depths of the ocean, have never been filmed, and these are largely represented by still photographs.
Invasion of the Land
Broadcast 20 February 1979, the next instalment describes the move from water to land. The fish that did so may have been forced to because of drought, or chose to in search of food. Either way, they eventually evolved into amphibians. Such creatures needed two things: limbs for mobility and lungs to breathe. The coelacanth is shown as a fish with bony fins that could have developed into legs, and the lungfish is able to absorb gaseous oxygen. However, evidence of an animal that possessed both is presented in the 450 million-year-old fossilised remains of a fish called a eusthenoptron. Three groups of amphibians are explored. The sicilians have abandoned legs altogether to aid burrowing, newts and salamanders need to return to the water to allow their skins to breathe, but it is frogs and toads that have been the most successful. Attenborough handles a goliath frog, the largest of the species, to demonstrate its characteristics. Their webbed feet form parachutes that turn them into "dazzling athletes", and some can leap over 15 metres — 100 times their body length. In addition, their vocal sacs ensure that mating calls can be heard from up to a mile away. Poison dart frogs deter predators by means of venom, and one such example could kill a human. Various methods of breeding are examined, including laying eggs in rivers, depositing them in other damp habitats for safety or, as with the Brazilian pipa, embedding them within the skin of the parent itself.
Victors of the Dry Land
Broadcast 27 February 1979, this episode is devoted to the evolution of reptiles. They are not as restricted as their amphibian ancestors, since they can survive in the hottest climates. The reason is their scaly, practically watertight skin. The scales protect the body from wear and tear and in the case of some species of lizard, such as the Australian thorny devil, serve to protect from attack. The horned iguana from the West Indies is also one of the most heavily armoured. The skin is rich in pigment cells, which provide effective means of camouflage, and the chameleon is a well known example. Temperature control is important to reptiles: they can’t generate body heat internally or sweat to keep cool. Therefore, they rely on the sun and areas of shade. The reptiles were the first vertebrates for whom internal fertilisation was essential, so they developed the watertight egg, which hatches fully formed young. The age of the dinosaurs is explored, and Attenborough surmises that it may have been climate change that led to their abrupt demise. Those that survived were water-dwellers, and the bull Nile crocodile is the largest reptile alive today. Snakes evolved when burrowing lizards lost their legs but returned above ground. The boa, puff adder and sidewinder demonstrate methods of locomotion, the egg-eating snake has an extreme example of a hinged jaw, and the lethal diamondback rattlesnake is described as the most efficient at despatching its prey.
Lords of the Air
Broadcast 6 March 1979, this programme focuses on birds. The feather is key to everything that is crucial about a bird: it is both its aerofoil and its insulator. The earliest feathers were found on a fossilised archeopteryx skeleton in Bavaria. However, it had claws on its wings and there is only one species alive today that does so: the hoatzin, whose chicks possess them for about a week or so. Nevertheless, it serves to illustrate the probable movement of its ancestor. It may have taken to the trees to avoid predators, and over time, its bony, reptilian tail was replaced by feathers and its heavy jaw evolved into a keratin beak. Beaks come in a variety of shapes depending on a bird’s feeding habits: examples given include the pouched bill of a pelican, the hooked beak of the vulture and the elongated mouth of the hummingbird. Attenborough hails the tern as one of the most graceful flyers and the albatross as a skilled glider. The swift is shown as one of the fastest: it can fly at 170 km/h. Birds communicate through display and/or song, and the elaborate courtship rituals of New Guinea’s birds of paradise are shown. All birds lay eggs, and the range of different nesting sites and parenting skills is explored. Finally, Attenborough visits Gibraltar to observe migratory birds. These rely on thermals when flying overland and use height to conserve energy when crossing oceans. It is estimated that some 5,000 million southbound birds cross the Mediterranean Sea each autumn.
The Rise of the Mammals
Broadcast 13 March 1979, this instalment is the first of several to concentrate on mammals. The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs (in much the same manner of reptiles), and it is from such animals that others in the group evolved. Since mammals have warm blood and most have dense fur, they can hunt at night when temperatures drop. It is for this reason that they became more successful than their reptile ancestors, who needed to heat themselves externally. Much of the programme is devoted to marsupials (whose young are partially formed at birth) of which fossils have been found in the Americas dating back 60 million years. However, because of continental drift, this kind of mammal flourished in Australia. Examples shown include the quoll, the Tasmanian devil, the koala, the wombat and the largest marsupial, the red kangaroo. The thylacine was similar to a wolf but is now thought to be extinct. In 1969, bones of creatures such as a 3 metre-tall kangaroo and a ferocious marsupial lion were found in a cave in Naracoorte, South Australia. The reason for these animals' extinction is, once again, thought to be climate change. Finally, Attenborough describes the most prolific mammals — those that originated in the Northern Hemisphere and give birth to fully formed young. He states, "The placenta and the womb between them provide a degree of safety and a continuity of sustenance which is unparalleled in the animal world."
Theme and Variations
Broadcast 20 March 1979, this episode continues the study of mammals, and particularly those whose young gestate inside their bodies. Attenborough asks why these have become so varied and tries to discover the common theme that links them. Examples of primitive mammals that are still alive today include the treeshrew, the desman and the star-nosed mole. Insect eaters vary enormously from the aardvark, giant anteater and pangolin to those to which much of this programme is devoted: the bats, of which there are nearly 1,000 different species. These took to flying at night, and it’s possible that they evolved from treeshrews that jumped from tree to tree, in much the same way as a flying squirrel. Most bats use sonar to hunt and navigate, and ultrasound to communicate. However, some of their prey, such as the lacewing and tiger moth, have developed techniques to confuse and evade them. Aquatic mammals superseded sea-going dinosaurs such as the plesiosaur. The whales’ immense size is related to the retention of body heat. The dinosaurs’ growth was limited by the strength of their bones but the whales only rely on water to support their weight, and so have been able to grow into the world’s largest animals. Some of those shown include humpbacks, narwhals, killer whales and dolphins. The latter use echolocation in much the same way as bats, and Attenborough observes one finding objects in the water even after it has been blindfolded.
The Hunters and Hunted
Broadcast 27 March 1979, this programme surveys mammal herbivores and their predators. The herbivores began to populate the forests when the dinosaurs disappeared, and many took to gathering food at night. To prepare for winter, some store it in vast quantities, some hibernate and others make do as best they can. However, the carnivores joined them, and when a dying climate triggered the spread of grass, they followed their prey out on to the plains. Grass is not easily digestible and most animals that eat it have to regurgitate it and chew the cud. Out in the open, the leaf-eaters had to develop means of protection. A few species turned into burrowers: examples include the blind mole-rat, which is completely underground, and the prairie dog, which isn't. The capybara — the largest rodent — spends much of its time in the water. Those that evolved long legs and hooves, such as the zebra and impala, seek safety in speed, while larger creatures, such as the rhinoceros, rely on their armoured hides. The elephant is the world’s largest land animal and is virtually invulnerable. Cheetahs and lions are attracted by those that herd in large numbers, like wildebeest. The cheetah uses its considerable speed while the heavier lion is a social predator, mostly using co-operation and stealth to capture its victims, and its methods are explored in detail. Meanwhile, a pack hunter, such as the hyena, has immense stamina and will eventually wear down its quarry, easing the kill.
Life in the Trees
Broadcast 3 April 1979, the penultimate instalment investigates the primates, whose defining characteristics are forward-facing eyes for judging distance, and gripping hands with which to grasp branches, manipulate food and groom one another. The programme begins in Madagascar, home to the lemurs, of which there are some 20 different types. Two examples are the sifaka, which is a specialised jumper, and the indri, which has a well developed voice. Away from Madagascar, the only lemur relatives to have survived are nocturnal, such as the bushbaby, the potto and the loris. The others were supplanted by the monkeys and a primitive species that still exists is the smallest, the marmoset. However, Attenborough selects the squirrel monkey as being typical of the group. Howler monkeys demonstrate why they are so named — their chorus is said to the loudest of any mammal — and their prehensile tails illustrate their agility. However, such tails are not characteristic of monkeys that inhabit Africa and many of them, such as vervets and baboons, are just as happy on the ground. Others have moved elsewhere, and the macaques of Koshima in Japan have learned to wash their food before eating. Most apes have taken to swinging from trees, and their feet are just as versatile as their hands. They include the orangutan, the gibbon, the chimpanzee and the primate with whom Attenborough has arguably his most famous encounter, the mountain gorilla.
The Compulsive Communicators
Broadcast 10 April 1979, the final episode deals with the evolution of the most widespread and dominant species on Earth: humans. The story begins in Africa, where, some 10 million years ago, apes descended from the trees and ventured out into the open grasslands in search of food. They slowly adapted to the habitat and grew in size. Their acute sense of vision led to them standing erect to spot predators, leaving their hands free to bear weapons. In addition, the primitive apemen also had stones that were chipped into cutting tools. Slowly, they grew taller and more upright, and their stone implements became ever more elaborate. Furthermore, animal hunting expeditions required a degree of co-operation to achieve a successful outcome. Therefore, Attenborough argues, such foresight, teamwork and planning must have meant some skill at communication. Homo erectus gradually spread from Africa and reached Europe some 800,000 years ago, where a drop in temperature led to him inhabiting caves. Such creatures evolved further and learned to use flint for weapons, animal skins for clothing, and fire for warmth and preparing food. Their brains became fully formed and, using the walls of their caves as a canvas, they painted and eventually learned to write. Homo sapiens had arrived. However, Attenborough warns, just because humans have achieved so much in such a comparatively short space of time, it may not mean that they will be around forever.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:47
Life in Cold Blood《冷血生命》
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The Cold-Blooded Truth
A cold-blooded creature needs solar power - soaking up the rays but hibernating in winter. We meet frogs that moisturise, jousting tortoises and frozen turtles that return to life. They can be sophisticated creatures like the bubble-messaging salt-water crocodile or the Balearic wall lizard that has a relationship with a flower, but there are the exceptions to the cold blooded rules such as the teenage tyrannosaurus rex and the largest reptile on earth, the leather back turtle.
Land Invaders
Amphibians invaded by evolving some of the most bizarre life-histories on the planet. We discover the biggest salamander on earth, a newt with an phrodisiac tail and a worm like amphibian, the female of which feeds her skin to her babies. The most diverse and engaging amphibians are the frogs, here Panamanian golden frogs communicate by semaphore, a jewel-like poison-arrow frog displays parenting skills and escapolgist tadpoles evade predatory wasps.
Dragons of the Dry
Enter the world of the lizard: from the chameleons, masters of the arboreal life to geckos tapping a code to plant-hopper insects and baby pygmy blue-tongued skinks huddling in their burrows long after birth. In the deserts are found some of the most bizarre lizards: baby Bushveld lizards mimicking acid-squirting beetles; the well-armoured and bizarrely spiky; thorny devils and the lizard kings - the Australian monitors - fast, intelligent and efficient hunters.
Sophisticated Serpents
Snakes have developed the ultimate economy of design and are the most elegant and iconic of hunters. Among the incredible species seen here are blind tiger snakes that hunt using their sense of smell, magnificent African spitting cobras and a bizarre turtle-headed sea-snake hunting on a coral reef. And, for the first time ever, cameras capture a snake ambush in the wild and the beautiful spectacle of yellow anacondas giving birth underwater.
Armoured Giants
The world of the armoured creature is equally fascinating and bizarre. Galapagos giant tortoises solve the problem of making love in a suit of armour; a heated sea turtle orgy leaves females in mortal danger and we witness the explosive arrival of a baby pig-nosed turtle. Giant salt-water crocodiles crowd a flooded river-run to fish for mullet and a caiman leads her brood in a touching trek to a communal crèche.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:49
Life in the Undergrowth《矮树丛里的生物》
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【大举登陆】Invasion Of The Land
David Attenborough tells the story of the land-living invertebrates. He delves into the private life of Europe's dramatic leopard slug, a common garden resident with a truly bizarre end to its marathon mating ritual; watches the courtship ballet of tiny springtails on the underside of a leaf; sees swarms of bright red South African millipedes find partners, and in the caves of Venezuela meets the giant bat-eating centipede.
【翩翩飞舞】Taking To The Air
As the early June sun begins to set over a calm river in Central Hungary, masses of ghostly shapes emerge from their larval cases to take to the air for the first time. They are mayflies and in a spectacular display, thousands of them demonstrate how the very first wings were used.
From the stunning aerobatics of hoverflies in an English garden to the mass migration of purple crow butterflies in the valleys of Taiwan, this episode tells the tale of the first animals ever to take to the air. Unique footage reveals the lightning fast reactions of bluebottles and hoverflies, filmed with one of the world's fastest cameras, and David Attenborough handles the world's largest (and perhaps most ferocious) insect - the Titan beetle.
【吐丝织网】The Silk Spinners
Silk is the invertebrates' great invention, used in a range of ways from from the protective stalks of lacewing eggs to the amazing hanging threads of New Zealand's 'glow worms'. Spiders, though, have taken silk-spinning to extremes.
The common wolf spider has no web, but the female is a gentle parent, encasing her eggs in silk and carrying the precious bundle wherever she goes. The bolas spider uses a ball of sticky silk soaked in a copy of moth pheromone to lure its prey. Millions of communal spiders live and feed together in a vast, towering web - an arachnophobe's nightmare.
【相互依存】Intimate Relations
The world of invertebrates exists in a web of relationships with plants and other animals. Unique footage of the world's smallest insect (a fairy wasp only quarter of a millimetre long) shows it flying underwater to find the eggs of water beetles in which to lay its own brood. Some ants 'farm' the trees that give them shelter, creating areas known as 'Devil's gardens'. To make sure these grow without competition, they kill off other seedlings in the surrounding vegetation.
The blister beetle's larvae huddle together on the end of a piece of grass and mimic a female bee. When a male bee tries to mate with the 'female', the larvae grab on to his belly. Confused, he flies away and searches for a real female. When he eventually finds her and mates with her, the beetle larvae hurriedly swap from his front on to her back, and hence get carried back to her nest where they eat her pollen supplies.
【庞大社会】Supersocieties
Invertebrates don't always operate alone. True society was the last feature to evolve in invertebrates, as recently as the time of Tyrannosaurus. In the last programme see the tensions below the surface in some of the great social structures built by insects, and witness the carnage when an ant colony and a termite colony wage war.
《矮树丛里的生物》
【大举登陆】Invasion Of The Land
大卫·艾登堡讲的是生活在陆地上无脊椎生物的故事。他深入研究了欧洲富有戏剧性的豹纹蛞蝓不为人知的生活习性，它是花园普通居民，马拉松式的交配仪式，交尾结束样子相当怪异；观察树叶下跳虫求婚时跳的芭蕾；看见成群的南部非洲亮红的节肢动物寻找伴侣的过程；在委内瑞拉山洞里遇见巨型吃蝙蝠的蜈蚣。
【翩翩飞舞】Taking To The Air
随着6月初的太阳照着匈牙利中部一条安静的河上，成群鬼魅身影出现天空中，他们刚从幼体孵化成体，第一次在天空翩翩飞舞。他们就是蜉蝣，成千上万的他们证明如何第一次使用自己的翅膀，情景蔚为壮观。
从在英国花园的进行令人目眩的特技飞行的食蚜蝇到台湾山谷的群体迁徙的紫斑蝶，这集述说第一次空中飞舞的生物的故事。独特的镜头展示了肉蝇和食蚜蝇闪电般的快速反应，用世界上最快的摄像机之一拍摄的。大卫·艾登堡在触摸世界上最大的【也许最残忍的】昆虫－巨型甲虫。
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Lions: Spy in the Den《狮: 兽穴中的窥探》
The Spy in the Den of the title is "Bouldercam", a motorised camera with state-of-the-art microphones disguised as a rock covered in leaves. It was invented specifically for this project of infiltrating a pride of lions to record their lives over a period of a couple of years.
Miniaturisation in camera technology has previously allowed presenter David Attenborough to discover the intricacies of the world's smallest denizens; it needed something as goofily practical as this for him to get within a safe distance of nature's far more dangerous predator.
The first time the cubs met Bouldercam they were fascinated by the strange animated boulder in their midst. They were unsure whether it was some kind of creature or a natural feature in the landscape. But after this first playful encounter they would ignore Bouldercam completely allowing us to get a cub's eye view of their action-packed lives.
Bouldercam was never harmed by the lions, its rounded design meant that even full-grown lions would have difficulty getting their teeth in. In the event, only one young male tried to eat the fibreglass cover - fortunately without success.
But Bouldercam nearly came to grief filming the, often violent, amorous antics of the lions. At the point of climax, the lioness sometimes turns on the male. During a marathon mating season of more than 150 times in three days(!), we learn of the male's adaptation of the biting neck lock to keep the female placid.
There are dozens more of these intimate observations that add to what was already a fascinating creature's lifestyle. Two years of material has been condensed into a tantalising hour documentary that will leave you hungry for more.
Bouldercam was often just a whisker away as the cubs were watched, for over 3000 hours, growing up and learning to be lions. As David Attenborough says 'This is no ordinary film about lions.'作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:51
March of the Flamebirds《火烈鸟之舞》
David Attenborough takes a look at the most desolate desert on Earth - a sea of salt on the edge of the Kalahari. Yet, in its midst, there is a moving island of life, with 40,000 baby flamingos walking to the nearest water, miles away - a battle for survival against all odds.
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Mark Lawson talks to David Attenborough
Broadcaster and film-maker David Attenborough discusses his career of more than 50 years at the BBC, in which he gave up his post as Controller of BBC Two to concentrate on making natural history documentaries, including Life on Earth, The Living Planet and Tribal Eye
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Million Pound Bird Book
A profile of the artist and ornithologist John James Audobon, famous for painting and cataloguing the birds of North America.
Born in Haiti in 1785, John James Audobon was raised in France and to avoid the Napoleonic Wars he escaped to The United States in 1803, where he began to study birds. Unable to find a publisher for his Philadelphia book of Birds, he travelled to England where he found success and went on to publish subsequent books, the seven volumes of Birds of America featuring 435 hand-coloured lithographs of life-sized birds, and five volumes of Ornithological Biographies. Sold by subscription these books fetched $1,000 each.
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【世纪大消融】Melt
The Artic's Great Melt that finds polar bear families navigating their precarious way on ever-thining ice.
【马哈鱼大逃亡】Salmon Run
British Columbia's Great Salmon Run where grizzly bears use ingenuity and fancy footwork to collect their catch.
【塞伦盖蒂平原大迁徙】Migration
The Great Migration of the Serengeti that tests the survival skills of a pride of lions with young cubs.
【潮汐】Tide
The Great Tide of billions of sardines along South Africa's east coast creates an action-packed feeding frenzy of thousands of dolphins, sharks, whales, seals and gannets.
【奥卡万戈大洪水】Flood
The Great Flood of the Okavango Delta in Botswana draws families of elephants, who undertake an epic trek to reach it.
【阿拉斯加海岸盛宴】Feast
The plankton bloom of the Great Feast in Alaska's coastal waters attracts humpback whales and sea lions, who face the dangers of killer whales.
【世纪大消融】Melt
极地的大融化,将对行驶在逐渐变薄的冰面上的北极熊产生巨大影响
【马哈鱼大逃亡】Salmon Run
在英国哥伦比亚地区的马哈鱼大逃亡之时，灰熊将依靠它们的智力和敏捷的脚步搜集它们的猎物
Saucy title for an intriguing programme about cats. David Attenborough narrates this documentary following feral cats in their struggle for status amongst the ruins of Trajan's Forum, in the bustling heart of Rome. The programme follows Mina, the queen of the colony who's an experienced mother and much sought after by the males. We also meet Caesar, the dominant male, who must be on his guard against potential usurpers.
For at least 2,000 years, a unique way of life has flourished around the shores of Japan's largest freshwater lake - Lake Biwa - fed by more than 500 rivers that descend from the rugged, forested interior of Honshu Island. To exploit the abundant mountain water, generations of farmers have transformed the foothills surrounding the lake into a maze of ingeniously engineered terraced fields. The balance between humans and nature is reflected in the Japanese name for the cultivated areas: satoyama.
The BBC has decided to acquire NHK's Satoyama series of documentaries. It will acquire Satoyama: Japan's Secret Garden (1999) and Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden (2004) and combine them into one program for broadcast, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
The Satoyama series, which has just won the Grand Prix at the 28th International Wildlife Film Festival 2005, is produced by NHK and distributed by MICO. It poetically portrays the close relationship between people and nature in traditional rural environments in Japan. The first program, which focuses on the agricultural cycle of rice paddies on hillsides in Japan, has been distributed to over 80 countries worldwide. The second program takes a look at a traditional water-supply system called a "kabata", which not only provides water to village households but also nurtures a vast diversity of fish, insects, birds, and other creatures. Both programs offer insights into environmentally sustainable living.
Shin Murata, the originator and Executive Producer of the two programs, commented: "I'm delighted that Satoyama will be airing in the BBC's 'Natural World' strand. The BBC's endorsement of Satoyama is particularly gratifying because one of my biggest inspirations for the programs was a BBC production titled 'Restless Year' which followed the seasons in one of England's rural areas".
Neil Nightingale, Head of the BBC's Natural History Unit, commented: "We decided to acquire Satoyam because it is a unique and beautiful portrait of rural Japan and the relationship between people and nature. It reveals an aspect of Japan that I am sure will be completely new to British viewers, and does it in a wonderfully lyrical style which I am sure will be popular with our 'Natural World' audience."作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:57
Sensitive Scorpion《敏感蝎子》
David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the Scorpions. They have one of the oldest body designs on the planet and have seen the entire race of dinosaurs evolve and become extinct. They can withstand drowning, starvation, extreme temperatures and even lethal nuclear radiation. Despite this tough exterior, the real reason for their success stems from an array of sensory equipment that enables them to perceive the world in a way that we can only imagine. For the first time, this film journeys into the sensory world of the scorpion.
David Attenborough explores the feared marine predator's sophisticated sensory abilities, focusing on an annual feeding frenzy off the coast of South Africa. He also observes an intimate embrace between a reef shark and diver, and suggests the creature has a more sensitive side.
David Attenborough travels along the coast of Southern Africa which has an incredible variety of sharks, over 140 species, from massive great whites and tiger sharks to dozens of tiny sharks with intriguing names like the pyjama shark and leopard cat shark. The answer to why these seas are so rich in predators lies in the unique pattern of warm and cold currents allowing sharks that normally live oceans apart to coexist.
In 2004, a team from the Planet Earth series captured the first ever film of a wild snow leopard in the mountains of Pakistan. For Nisar Malik, who led the expedition, these images sparked a passion that compelled him to return. With cameraman Mark Smith, he spent two years documenting the snow leopard's daily life, finally lifting the veil on the most elusive of all cats.
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Space Age Reptile《太空时代的爬虫》
David Attenborough looks at how research has finally revealed the secret behind the remarkable sticking power of the gecko's foot. This discovery could offer truly futuristic ways of sticking objects together, and may even help NASA to explore distant planets. Including a look at the urban-dwelling tokay gecko that happily resides alongside the citizens of Bangkok as one of the few reptiles tolerated in homes.
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Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss《抹香鲸: 深渊归来》
Wildlife film about sperm whales, revealing the secret lives led by these often misunderstood ocean giants.
Scientists all over the world are now learning about the secret lives of sperm whales, the world's largest hunters that spawned the legendy of Moby Dick. Although Mellville painted them as fearsome beasts of the sea, they are actually shy creatures, and cameraman Rick Rosenthal needed patience and persistence to film them at close quarters. They turn out to be efficient hunters with a close family network involving sophisticated and vocal social lives.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:59
Super Mums: The Smart Investors《超级妈咪》
David Attenborough takes a look at the unique approaches of several different animal species to motherhood. The elephant seal mother loses 40 per cent of her body weight during the four short weeks she has to wean her pup. The seahorse female leaves giving birth to the male. The amaurobious spider sacrifices everything for her children - she is their very first meal.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 14:59
The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man《最初的伊甸园》
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The Making of the Garden
The Mediterranean world - its history, natural history, & first people.
The Gods Enslaved
David ATTENBOROUGH pres 2/4 in series about Med Sea & lands around it,describing man's attitude to nature & his exploitation of it,from rise of ancient Egypt to fall of Roman Empire.
The Wastes of War
David ATTENBOROUGH pres 3rd prog about the Mediterranean Sea & the lands surrounding it. This prog looks at how human migration, wars & the growth of trade in medieval times transformed the lands around the Mediterranean.
Strangers in the Garden
Last prog in the series.The discovery of the New World & the cutting of the Suez Canal intro'd new species to the Mediterranean.Population pressures continue to ravage the land & pollute the sea-yet wildlife still survives.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:00
The Future《迎向未来》
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The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth《野生大奇观》
The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth is a month by month travelogue of the greatest sights of massed wildlife from all over the world. Each month focuses on just one such incredible show of wildlife. Specifically, the months are as follows:
January - Massed Monarch Butterflies in Mexic
February - Massive migration of Caribou in Newfoundland
March - Dancing of the Red-Crested Cranes in Japan
April - Red Garter Snakes in Canada returning to the surface after hibernating in the snow and having mass orgies. This footage may scare the youngsters.
May - 70000 gannets gathering together on one small rocky outcrop in Scotland
June - Grizzly Bears fishing for Salmon in Alaskan rivers
July - Flamingos feeding on a soda lake in Kenya
August - Emperor Penguins looking after their chicks during the dark winter in Antarctica
September - The incredible acrobatics of the Dusky Dolphins off New Zealand
October - Wildebeest Migration in East Africa. Once again this footage could scare younger * viewers due to the presence of Crocodiles.
November - The incredible Red Crab migration on Christmas Island.
December - Coral spawning at Summer Solstice on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Natural Wonders of the World focuses on natural landscapes rather than wildlife. This show spends an hour highlighting some of the greatest visions of the world I have ever seen. The photography is even better than the first show. It is arranged by continent and specifically covers the following:
North America - Deserts, canyonlands, Death Valley, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mesas, the Grand Canyon and Limestone Caves
South America - Amazon River, Angel Falls, the Andes and glaciers
Pacific Ocean - Hawaiian volcanos & Coral Atolls
Asia - Mt Fuji, Guilin & the Himalayas
Europe - Alps, Rivers, Ice Caves, the Northern Lights
Africa - Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Ngorogoro, Rift Valley & the Negev Desert
Australasia - Olgas, Uluru, Deserts, 12 Apostles (before one fell over recently), Kimberleys, Great Barrier Reef, New Zealand's mountains and fjords
Antarctica作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:01
The Lost Elephants of Timbuktu
Remote, mysterious, blisteringly arid, Timbuktu is a place where elephants live alongside the nomadic Tuareg people in an ancient, but uneasy relationship.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:02
The Lost Road: Overland to Singapore
In 1955 young producer of Travellers' Tales David Attenborough was persuaded by six Oxbridge undergraduates to give some money & filmstock so they could film their unique overland journey by Land Rover from London to Singapore.
The team fly across the Channel, travel through France, brewing tea at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Then onward through Germany, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. They inspect ancient ruins in Syria, learn to waterski in The Lebanon and spend time a Nairn Bus workshop in Iraq. They demo the landrovers to the Iranian Army, travel through Pakistan to India where they visit the Taj Mahal and the tea plantations of Darjeeling. Onto previously inaccessible Nepal and through fairly incessible Burma. There they are escorted by soldiers whose jeep they have to repair. Then through Malaya and onto the Singapore causeway where a welcoming committee awaits.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:03
The Miracle of Bali《巴厘岛奇蹟》
A general introduction to Bali, its people & their varied arts, with the main focus on Peliatan village, its orchestra & dancers. Film of the religious rituals & festivals of Bali, officially Hindu, but with origins in ancient ceremonials practised long before Hinduism came to the island. A recital of music and dancing from the Balinese village of Pliatan, the separate items linked by an appropriately illustrative detail from Balinese paintings.
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The Midday Sun
A general introduction to Bali, its people & their varied arts, with the main focus on Peliatan village, its orchestra & dancers.
Night
Film of the religious rituals & festivals of Bali, officially Hindu, but with origins in ancient ceremonials practised long before Hinduism came to the island.
Recital Of Music
A recital of music and dancing from the Balinese village of Pliatan, the separate items linked by an appropriately illustrative detail from Balinese paintings.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:04
The Private Life of Plants《植物私生活》
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【旅程】 Travelling
David Attenborough's incredible journey into the world of plants. By using advanced timelapse photography, the plants are shown as complex and highly active organisms - growing, fighting, competing, breeding and struggling to survive. This programme demonstrates the techniques plants employ to travel from place to place to find new homes.
【成长】 Growing
David Attenborough presnts time-lapse photography that reveals how new leaves fight for a place in the sun, and examines the ingenious methods that plants use to defend themselves from animal attack.
【开花】 Flowering
Flowers are the most eye-catching feature of plants, but they are there for only one thing - sex. In order to procreate, a male seed from one flower must be carried to the female parts of another. Flashy colours and lurid perfumes entice a host of animal couriers to collect their rewards.
【挣扎】 The Social Struggle
David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary battles for survival that are fought in the plant world. Cameras reveal how plants use every trick in the book in a bid to come out on top, from growing at different rates to courting and even capitalising on disaster, whether it be hurricanes, fires or being eaten by animals.
【共存】 Living Together
David Attenborough looks at the battle for survival in the plant world. Plants often rely on animals, fungi and each other for food, protection or a home - and they are not always grateful partners. Remarkable time-lapse photography reveals them strangling, stabbing and sucking their victims dry.
【求存】 Surviving
David Attenborough reaches the climax of his journey into the world of plants. The final programme looks at the amazing variety of ingenious techniques plants have invented to survive even the coldest Arctic wastes and the driest, hottest deserts. Time-lapse sequences reveal giant water lilies rampaging across the Amazon, mangroves that care for their babies, and plants that survive only by devouring animals.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:04
The Real Macaw《金刚鹦鹉》
Macaws are loved the world over. But as the pet trade flourishes and their habitats are destroyed, their future in the wild is bleak. This wildlife on two episode takes a look at macaw parrots the most vivacious and flamboyant members of the parrot family. It examines the behaviors and lives of both parrots in captivity and remaining free ones as well.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:04
The Selfish Green
Wildscreen is the world's largest festival of moving images from the natural world. It takes place every two years in Bristol, United Kingdom.
"The Selfish Green" was the opening event of Wildscreen 2004, a landmark debate on the future of conservation with David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Dimbleby (chair), Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:05
The Superherd《超级兽群》
The life of the wildebeest, a creature commonly regarded as stupid and lumbering, but which has emerged as one of Africa's success stories. Using a number of unusual strategies to keep its population flourishing, the species maintains a 'super herd' able to thrive on the plains seemingly without fear of predators.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:06
The Tribal Eye《部落之眼》
This DVD release features David AttenborougH's original 1975 Tribal Art: The Complete Series and includes all seven programmes commissioned for the BBC. Through the series, Attenborough gives viewers a fascinating guide to the world's tribal art traveling to intriguing places and tribal communities.
Attenborough's love of tribal art grew out of his early programme-making days at the BBC and took him to all corners of the world. From his first trips he accumulated souvenirs and eventually became a serious collector of tribal art. This series was commissioned shortly after he resigned from his job as Director of Programmes. He believed there was room on television for totem poles and masks as well as old master paintings. The resulting lavish series examined sculpture, weaving, metal casting and other artistic activities in tribal societies around the world.
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Behind The Mask
Studies the Dogon people of Mali, their sculpture and ritual ceremonies.
Crooked Beak Of Heaven
Presents potlatch a colorful event staged by Northwestern American Indians.
Sweat Of the Sun
Few of the beautiful golden artifacts of the Aztecs and Incas are left today. Most of them were melted down by the pillaging Spanish conquistadors. But some exquisite pre-Columbian art still exists, and narrator David Attenborough describes how these were used by priests in practical and ritual fashion, including human sacrifice.
Kingdom Of Bronze
At the turn of the century Europeans refused to believe that the craftsmen of the Nigerian Kingdom of Benin could have made such sophisticated and beautiful bronze castings. This program traces the history of Beni and Yoruba bronzes, and examines the techniques used in making them, and the results. We see the beautiful and elegant portrait busts, plaques and standing figures which read as impressive chronicles of the elaborate court life under the autocratic Obas of Benin.
Woven Gardens
n a wonderful combination of beauty, function and tradition, the rugs of the Gashqai Nomads of Iran perfectly mirror their lives. Wool is gathered from sheep, goats and camels. Dyes are made from juices of plants along their caravan routes. Then the jogging of the pack animals, bearing the looms with unfinished rugs, gives the weave its beautiful irregularity. And they are used against the cold, the wind, and as saddle bags and grain sacks.
Man Blong Custom
This program takes us on a perilous journey to the jungle-covered mountains of the New Hebrides to witness the sacred ceremonies performed in the village cult house. Life size effigies, the heads of which are human skulls fleshed out with clay, dance as cavorting puppets in funeral ceremonies. Then we journey to the neighboring Solomon Islands and examine their magnificent war canoes, their sea spirit dances, and an anthropological phenomenon, Moro. This island mystic arose to say that the gods of the island wished the people to send the foreign Christians back home and once again worship the ancients.
Across The Frontiers
Attenborough summarizes his exploration of tribal ways as seen through tribal arts. He notes the loss of custom and tradition with the inroads of western civilization and a new awakening of ancient tribal culture among many people today from the Tribal Eye Series.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:07
Tiger: Spy in the Jungle《虎: 丛林中窥探》
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EP 1
Four 10-day-old tiger cubs, two females and two males, are living in the Indian jungle. This is their mother's first litter and the cubs insist on tumbling out of the den, only to be carried delicately back to safety in her massive jaws.
As they grow, their diet changes from their mother's milk to meat. At 14 weeks they can eat over a kilo of meat a day between them - the equivalent of 20 large steaks. It's a good job that this tigress is such a skilled hunter and that spotted and sambar deer are so plentiful. Charger, their imposing father, keeps his distance but helps to protect his vulnerable offspring from rogue male tigers and leopards. Life seems sweet, until one day the cubs are left home alone and one of their greatest threats, an Indian leopard is near by.
EP 2
The cubs are half grown and still pretty playful but it's time to learn the hunting and fighting skills they'll need as adults. Play fighting erupts between them - it looks nasty, but their claws are never drawn. The young tigers have huge appetites and their mother must hunt successfully most days to satisy them. When they're not eating, playing or fighting, the cubs sleep - and tigers love water, so a cooling water hole is perfect on a steaming day. The spy cameras show that this wallow is also a magnet for a whole array of other forest animals, including wild boar and sloth bears.
The cubs are starting to behave as individuals and take personal hunting tuition from their mother. Then disaster strikes when both their parents are injured, and a rogue male tiger puts in an appearance. They still have a lot to learn.
EP 3
The cubs are beginning to gain their independence. They must hone their hunting skills, and the two males must prepare to leave their mother and sisters and face the world on their own.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:08
Tiger《虎》
Dangerous, powerful, but above all breath-takingly beautiful, tigers have for centuries sparked awe and admiration. Yet, it is their very uniqueness which has made them a prized object for hunters. This film could be the last complete portrait of tigers in the wild as there is a real chance they could be extinct within the next decade. Their elusive lifestyle has made filming difficult, but after 25 years of the Project Tiger scheme operating in India's Madhya Pradesh, these big cats have become more trusting. An award-winning team of producers and cameramen have teamed up to follow the lives of several tigers by day and, by using low-light cameras, at night. The result shows the majesty of these fascinating animals and the importance of saving them from extinction. (VERSIN 2)作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:09
Trek: Spy on the Wildebeest《大迁徙: 角马群里的间谍》
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【征途】The Journey
Through the use of stealthcam, cameras built inside capsules resembling everything from crocodiles and hippos to mudpiles and dragonflies, the magnificent journey of more than a million wildebeest across Tanzania's Serengeti Plain has been captured like never before.
The migration is the largest of land animals on the planet and the perils on the 3000km round trip, which the wildebeest take annually for food and water, are numerous. Wildebeest are on the hit list of every African predator.
By land and across water, their lives are in constant danger from cheetahs, lions, hyenas and crocodiles, as well as nature's most gruelling physical challenges.
Their coming signals food for their enemies on the plains and in the rivers. Their enemies wait to pick them off at the slightest chance. So survival tactics are called for from the first minutes of a newborn wildebeest's life.
【横渡】The Crossing
Beating the odds against the predators on Tanzania's Serengeti Plain and the Kenyan Masa Marai, the wildebeest calf has survived the first part of the huge 3000 km round trek with his mother and the herd.
But the crossing of the Mara River presents the biggest challenge yet for this fragile little creature. Its raging torrents are a death trap and there are crocodiles galore waiting to pick him off.
Croc cam, skullcam, tortoisecam and hippocam, filming from ground level camouflaged cameras, capture all the drama and danger up close as the herd run the gauntlet of their land and water enemies for their annual epic mission.作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:10
William Hodges - The Art of Exploration
The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the widerworld. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. His vivid paintings of Tahiti, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands were the first such images widely seen in Europe.
In the early 1780s Hodges travelled extensively in northern India, and once again his paintings of landscapes and monuments were a revelation for audiences at home. In 2004 the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich brought together Hodges' major works from both the Pacific and India for his first-ever full retrospective.
Produced alongside the exhibition, this film reviews Hodges' career and his complex and beautiful art. The contributors include Geoff Quilley, curator of the Greenwich exhibition, author and anthropologist Nicholas Thomas, and the eminent broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, who enthuses about the artist he believes is "the most unjustly neglected British painter of the eighteenth century."作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:11
Wolf《狼》
Wolves are so wary and elusive and their senses so acute that even world-renowned wolf biologist David Mech hardly ever sees them. Mech and others have had to piece together what is currently known about the lives of wolves by radio-tracking them from air over the lakes and forests of Northern Minnesota. Cameraman, Jeff Turner, spent a staggering seven months of each year, for three years, camping out in Northern Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park, home of the largest wolves in the world. In midwinter, he recorded a pack of 20 wolves harassing a herd of buffalo for seven whole days and nights before making their kill. Traveling north to Ellsemere Island, Jeff also filmed a pair of pure white Arctic wolves struggling to rear their pair of young. In India, as far south as wolves live, Ian McCarthy filmed the Indian wolves hunting the fleet-footed black buck. Near the town of Brasov, in Transylvania, an ultra-sensitive nightvision camera was used to record for the first time a family of wolves descending from their forest home to raid the town's garbage bins for let over food. As producer Mike Salisbury says: "Even the howl of the wolf, that once struck terror into our hearts, is now regarded by many as one of the most thrilling sounds of the natural world."作者: aeonhades 时间: 2009-5-12 15:11
Wolves of the Sea
Wolves of the Sea, is a 1993 joint production of the ABC, National Geographic and TBS and features the familiar narration of David Attenborough. Multi-award winning Wolves of the Sea is a fascinating portrait of one of the world's most feared and least understood of the ocean's creatures - the killer whales.
This highly intelligent animal that communicates with a rich and eloquent vocabulary of sounds, is the most cunning hunter in the sea.
Killer Whales are found in every ocean of the world. In British Columbia the killers catch salmon; in Norway the pods round up huge schools of herring; penguins and elephant seals are pursued in the sub-Antarctic and sea lion pups are picked off the beach in Argentina.
海洋贪婪者
本片是由ABC, National Geographic 、TBS以及我们熟悉的大卫艾登堡在1993年联合制作发行的。
其中，虎鲸拥有诸多荣誉，是世界上最令人恐惧而不解，也最引人注目的动物。
这种智商很高的动物，具有丰富而富于表现力的交流方式，是最狡猾的海洋猎人。
在世界各地的大洋中都有虎鲸的身影。在不列颠哥伦比亚省是捕获鲑鱼的杀手；
在挪威，可以一次性地捕获大量鲱鱼；企鹅和海象在亚南极群岛被追捕，阿根廷海滩的海狮幼崽也无法幸免
Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 80th birthday today (Monday 8th May 2006). This tribute show counts down the top 20 moments from David Attenborough's many series, according to audience votes. Featuring the clips, comments from selected celebrity admirers and, of course, words from Sir David himself.
