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AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE... The makers of The Blue Planet present the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet. A stunning television experience that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an unforgettable journey through the challenging seasons and the daily struggle for survival in Earth's most extreme habitats. Using a budget of unprecedented proportions, photography and unique, specially developed filming techniques, Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience sights and sounds you may never experience again
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Episode 1: From Pole to Pole
The lives of animals and plants are dominated by the sun and fresh water which trigger seasonal journeys. The latest technology and aerial photography enable the Planet Earth team to track some of the greatest mass migrations.
In the Arctic spring, a mother polar bear and cubs emerge from their winter den. They have just two weeks to cross the frozen sea before it melts and they become stranded. Share the most intimate and complete picture of polar bear life ever filmed. Further south, time-lapse cameras capture the annual transformation created by the Okavango floods.
Episode 2: MOUNTAINS
Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain* at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest.
One of Earth's rarest phenomena is a lava lake that has been erupting for*over 100 years. The same forces built the Simian Mountains where troops of*gelada baboons live, nearly a thousand strong. In the Rockies, grizzlies*build winter dens inside avalanche-prone slopes. The programme also brings*
us astounding images of a snow leopard hunting on the Pakistan peaks, a* world first.
Episode 3: FRESH WATER
Fresh water defines the distribution of life on land. Follow the descent*of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Watch spectacular* waterfalls, fly inside the Grand Canyon and explore the wildlife in the*world's deepest lake.
Planet Earth captures unique and dramatic moments of animal behaviour: a*showdown between smooth-coated otters and mugger crocodiles; deep-diving*long tailed macaques; massive flocks of snow geese on the wing and a*piranha frenzy in the perilous waters of the world's largest wetland.
Episode 4: CAVES
The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a 400m vertical shaft, deep enough to*engulf the Empire State Building. The Lechuguilla cave system in the USA* is 193km long with astonishing crystal formations.
Caves are remarkable habitats with equally bizarre wildlife. Cave angel*fish cling to the walls behind waterfalls with microscopic hooks on their*fins. Cave swiftlets navigate by echo-location and build nests out of*saliva. The Texas cave salamander has neither eyes nor pigment. Planet*Earth gets unique access to a hidden world of stalactites, stalagmites,*snotites and troglodytes.
Episode 5: DESERTS
Around 30% of the land's surface is desert, the most varied of our*ecosystems despite the lack of rain. Saharan sandstorms reach nearly a*mile high and desert rivers run for a single day.
In the Gobi Desert, rare Bactrian camels get moisture from the snow. In*the Atacama, guanacos survive by licking dew off cactus spines. The brief*blooming of Death Valley triggers a plague of locusts 65km wide and 160km*long. A unique aerial voyage over the Namibian desert reveals elephants on*a long trek for food and desert lions searching for wandering oryx.
Episode 6: ICE WORLDS
The Arctic and Antarctic experience the most extreme seasons on Earth.*Time-lapse cameras watch a colony of emperor penguins, transforming them*into a single organism. The film reveals new science about the dynamics of*emperor penguin behaviour.
In the north, unique aerial images show a polar bear swimming more than*100km. Diving for up to two minutes at a time. The exhausted polar bear*later attacks a herd of walrus in a true clash of the Titans.
Episode 7: GREAT PLAINS
After filming for three years, Planet Earth finally captures the shy*Mongolian gazelle. Only a handful of people have witnessed its annual*migration. Don't miss the bizarre-looking Tibetan fox, captured on film*for the first time.
Over six weeks the team follow a pride of 30 lions as they attempt to hunt*elephants. Using the latest night vision equipment, the crew film the*chaotic battles that ensue at close quarters.
Episode 8: JUNGLES
The next instalment examines jungles and tropical rainforests. These environments occupy only 3% of the land yet are home to over half of the world's species. New Guinea is inhabited by almost 40 kinds of birds of paradise, which avoid conflict with each other by living in different parts of the island. Some of their elaborate courtship displays are shown. Within the dense forest canopy, sunlight is prized, and the death of a tree triggers a race by saplings to fill the vacant space. Figs are a widespread and popular food, and as many as 44 types of bird and monkey have been observed picking from a single tree. The sounds of the jungle throughout the day are explored, from the early morning calls of siamangs and orangutans to the nocturnal cacophony of courting tree frogs. The importance of fungi to the rainforest is illustrated by a sequence of them fruiting, including a parasite called cordyceps. The mutual benefits of the relationship between carnivorous pitcher plants and red crab spiders is also discussed. In the Congo, roaming forest elephants are shown reaching a clearing to feed on essential clay minerals within the mud. Finally, chimpanzees are one of the few jungle animals able to traverse both the forest floor and the canopy in search of food. In Uganda, members of a 150-strong community of the primates mount a raid into neighbouring territory in order to gain control of it. Planet Earth Diaries looks at filming displaying birds of paradise, focusing mainly on the filming of the Six-plumed Bird of Paradise.
Episode 9: SHALLOW SEAS
A humpback whale mother and calf embark on an epic journey from tropical*coral paradises to storm ravaged polar seas.
Newly discovered coral reefs in Indonesia reveal head-butting pygmy*seahorses, flashing 'electric' clams and bands of sea kraits, 30-strong,*which hunt in packs. Elsewhere plagues of sea urchins fell forests of*giant kelp. Huge bull fur seals attack king penguins, who despite their*weight disadvantage, put up a spirited defence.
Episode 10: SEASONAL FORESTS
The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted*conifers. The trees may be small but filming from the air reveals its true*scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and during the short summer*they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere.
In California General Sherman, a giant sequoia, is the largest living*thing on the planet, ten times the size of a blue whale. The oldest*organisms alive are bristlecone pines. At more than 4,000 years old they*pre-date the pyramids. But the baobab forests of Madagascar are perhaps*the strangest of all.
Episode 11 OCEAN DEEP
Life goes to extraordinary lengths to survive this immense realm. A 30*tonne whale shark gorges on a school of fish and the unique overhead*heli-gimbal camera reveals common dolphins rocketing at more than 30km an*hour.
Descending into the abyss, deep sea octopus fly with wings and vampire*squid use bioluminescence to create an extraordinary colour display. The*first ever time-lapse footage taken from 2,000m down captures eels, crabs*and giant isopods eating a carcass, completely consuming it within three*hours.
