• 2009
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Life

Summary A global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behavior that living things have developed in order to survive; what Charles Darwin termed "the struggle for existence." View more details

  • 2009
  • TV-G
  • 50m

Life

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : David Attenborough Oprah Winfrey Doug Allan Roger Munns

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 11, 2009

Countries of origin : United States Germany Italy United Kingdom Greece

Official sites : BBC

Language : English

Filming locations : Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Discovery Channel SKAI

Summary A global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behavior that living things have developed in order to survive; what Charles Darwin termed "the struggle for existence." View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 11, 2009

Countries of origin : United States Germany Italy United Kingdom Greece

Official sites : BBC

Language : English

Filming locations : Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Discovery Channel SKAI

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 11, 2009
Challenges of Life
How living long enough to breed is a monumental struggle, and how many animals and plants go to great extremes to give themselves a chance.
Episode 2 • Oct 18, 2009
Reptiles and Amphibians
The strategies reptiles and amphibians use to overcome their shortcomings, whether for safety, breeding, or capturing prey.
Episode 3 • Oct 25, 2009
Mammals
How mammals' warm blood and parental care contributed to their dominance of the planet.
Episode 4 • Nov 01, 2009
Fish
A look at the fish that dominate the planet's waters with their diverse shapes and behaviors.
Episode 5 • Nov 08, 2009
Birds
A look at birds through slow-motion cameras and aerial photography reveals some of the extraordinary things feathers allow them to do.
Episode 6 • Nov 15, 2009
Insects
Insects and - species outnumber all higher animals by far. Their immense variety reflect adaptation to an extreme range of ecological conditions, even gravely toxic ones. Especially the nearly 60,000 fly species cover about all the globe. Many can fly, which helps getting everywhere, but they also occur on/in soil, water, host plants or animals, cavities etcetera. They often occur in great swarms, as over a billion Monarch butterflies migrating from Canada to a Mexican forest to hibernate. To occupy various positions in ecological systems, usually prey, often predator, sometimes pollinator, and so on.
Episode 7 • Nov 22, 2009
Hunters and Hunted
The struggle of life is often based on 'eat (and/)or be eaten'. Therefore evolutionary success is largely defined in terms of skills to survive as prey and/or hunter. Mammals are particularly successful worldwide because the add to anatomical adaptation an intelligence allowing quick and greatly diverse strategies to find preys, shelter, fight (back) etcetera.
Episode 8 • Nov 29, 2009
Creatures of the Deep
Marine invertebrates, the descendants of one billion years of evolutionary history, are the most abundant creatures in the ocean. In the Sea of Cortez, packs of Humboldt squid make night-time raids from the deep to co-operatively hunt sardines. Beneath the permanent Antarctic sea ice of McMurdo Sound, sea urchins, red sea stars and nemertean worms are filmed scavenging on a seal carcass. A fried egg jellyfish hunts amongst a swarm of Aurelia in the open ocean, spearing its prey with harpoon-like tentacles. In the shallows off South Australia, hundreds of thousands of spider crabs gather annually to moult. Large male cuttlefish use flashing stroboscopic colors and strength to win a mate, whereas smaller rivals rely on deceit: both tactics are successful. A Pacific giant octopus sacrifices her life to tend her single clutch of eggs for six months. Marine invertebrates have a lasting legacy on land too - their shells formed the chalk and limestone deposits of Eurasia and the Americas.
Episode 9 • Dec 06, 2009
Plants
Flora has evolved to live in extreme conditions and a wide variety of locations and seen as the eldest 'creatures' on the planet. Their struggle for life, like animals (only usually much slower), is about food (including parasitism and 'flesh-eating'). They strive to find water, to procreate: notably pollination-mostly by animals and semination - gliding or by weather conditions, or more primitive ways such as spores. They have a varied defense (thorns, spines, toxins etc.). Specific is the need for light, the fuel of photosynthesis, leading to a hierarchy of light-related levels, because not growing high enough in time can be lethal.
Episode 10 • Dec 13, 2009
Primates
Primates include apes, monkeys and even more primitive simians, such as lemurs. Thanks to their intelligence, the higher primates take adaptation beyond anatomical evolution: their behavior transcends instinct thanks to learning and invention. Their social life especially holds the seeds of human culture, such as tribal warfare. They occur in widely different environments, which they cleverly interact with, from icy northern Japan to (mainly) the tropics in Old - and New World.

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