• 2011
  • 1h
Madagascar

Summary Over 80% of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest of the world, and how evolution ran wild there. View more details

  • 2011
  • 1h

Madagascar

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : David Attenborough Emma Napper Gavin Thurston Tim Fogg

All cast & crew

8.5

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 8, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official BBC site Vidio

Language : English

Filming locations : Madagascar

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Animal Planet

Summary Over 80% of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest of the world, and how evolution ran wild there. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 8, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official BBC site Vidio

Language : English

Filming locations : Madagascar

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Animal Planet

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Feb 08, 2011
Island of Marvels
What is it that makes Madagascar so different from the rest of the world? This first episode finds clues from Madagascar's extraordinary animals, plants and landscape to discover how the island's remarkable past has produced its intriguing present, like the Tsingy - a series of jagged limestone peaks which have cut off animals in isolated gorges, allowing them to evolve into their own unique species.
Episode 2 • Feb 15, 2011
Lost Worlds
On the east side of the island, rugged mountains rise dramatically from the palm fringed Indian Ocean. These uplands catch drenching rains almost all year round - steep and inaccessible, they are the most diverse part of the island. "Lost Worlds" travels from the highest mountains, where trees are few and it's cold enough for frost, through the lush, cloaking rainforests, down to the tropical coast, discovering the ringtailed lemurs, the jeweled geckos and the predatory wasps. So what is it that has made this narrow eastern strip in particular so rich in life?
Episode 3 • Feb 22, 2011
Land of Heat and Dust
The south of Madagascar is home to its most extraordinary landscapes - from forests of "upside down" trees, to alien "spiny deserts." In stark contrast to the east, this is a place that's bone-dry for most of the year - but it's extraordinarily rich in wildlife. Here only the toughest and most opportunistic survive - and some of the strategies for survival are ingenious. "Land of Heat and Dust" follows the long dry season of this arid landscape to see how life copes, as it waits for the brief rains.
Episode 4 • Mar 01, 2011
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
In 1961, David Attenborough was handed a very special memento while filming in Madagascar: egg fragments belonging to the largest bird ever. Now, he returns to the island and asks whether it holds the clue to saving the country's remaining wildlife.
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