Professor Ben Garrod explores how skin has evolved remarkable ways to enable animals to communicate with each other, from vibrant displays of colour to skin pouches to amplify sound.
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Professor Ben Garrod explores how skin has evolved remarkable ways to enable animals to communicate with each other, from vibrant displays of colour to skin pouches to amplify sound.
What is the most toxic animal on earth? Why is a rhino armour plated? Professor Ben Garrod discovers the complex ways in which skin helps defend animals against threats of all kinds.
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What is the most toxic animal on earth? Why is a rhino armour plated? Professor Ben Garrod discovers the complex ways in which skin helps defend animals against threats of all kinds.
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Secrets of Skin - Episode 6 - Sensing
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Sue Doody
Professor Ben Garrod explores how some snakes can see using heat, how crocodiles feel through their jaws, and how some animals use electricity to navigate their world.
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Professor Ben Garrod explores how some snakes can see using heat, how crocodiles feel through their jaws, and how some animals use electricity to navigate their world.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1
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David Attenborough
The series will celebrate the diversity of life on each of these continents, but also the challenges faced by animals in a modern world.
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The series will celebrate the diversity of life on each of these continents, but also the challenges faced by animals in a modern world.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 1: Antarctica
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David Attenborough
Antarctica - the coldest, windiest, most hostile continent. Only the toughest can survive here. But the ocean here is warming and with that comes an uncertain future.
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- 60
Antarctica - the coldest, windiest, most hostile continent. Only the toughest can survive here. But the ocean here is warming and with that comes an uncertain future.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 2: Asia
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David Attenborough
Asia - where rarely seen animals roam the hottest deserts, tallest jungles and highest mountains on Earth.
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- English subtitles
- 60
Asia - where rarely seen animals roam the hottest deserts, tallest jungles and highest mountains on Earth.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 3: South America
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David Attenborough
South America - the most species-rich continent on earth. From the volcanoes of the Andes to the world’s largest rainforest, animals here must specialise to carve out a niche.
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- English subtitles
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South America - the most species-rich continent on earth. From the volcanoes of the Andes to the world’s largest rainforest, animals here must specialise to carve out a niche.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 4: Australia
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David Attenborough
Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth.
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- English subtitles
- 60
Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 5: Europe
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David Attenborough
Europe - a continent transformed by mankind, where extraordinary animals are found in surprising places.
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- 60
Europe - a continent transformed by mankind, where extraordinary animals are found in surprising places.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 6: North America
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David Attenborough
North America - a land of change where pioneering animals make the most of surprising opportunities.
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- 60
North America - a land of change where pioneering animals make the most of surprising opportunities.
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Seven Worlds One Planet - Series 1 - Episode 7: Africa
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David Attenborough
Africa - home to the greatest wildlife gatherings on earth. But even in this land of plenty, wildlife faces huge challenges.
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- 60
Africa - home to the greatest wildlife gatherings on earth. But even in this land of plenty, wildlife faces huge challenges.
Documentary which unravels the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who - unlike any orca in the wild - has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong?
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- Natural World
- English subtitles
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Documentary which unravels the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who - unlike any orca in the wild - has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong?
Marcus du Sautoy reveals a hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. A code that has the power to explain everything, from the numbers and shapes we see all around us to the rules that govern our own lives. In this first episode, Marcus reveals how significant numbers apear throughout the natural world. They're part of a hidden mathematical world that contains the rules that govern everything on our planet and beyond.
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- Maths
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Marcus du Sautoy reveals a hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. A code that has the power to explain everything, from the numbers and shapes we see all around us to the rules that govern our own lives. In this first episode, Marcus reveals how significant numbers apear throughout the natural world. They're part of a hidden mathematical world that contains the rules that govern everything on our planet and beyond.
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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Barcroft Productions
The Day the Dinosaurs Died investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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- English subtitles
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Spring arrives, marking the start of an epic race for life where timing is everything.
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- Natural World
- English subtitles
- 60
Spring arrives, marking the start of an epic race for life where timing is everything.
A portrait of the spectacular, dynamic nature of Britain over the course of one year. In the midst of winter, time-lapses show a magical country shrouded in frost and mist.
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- Natural World
- English subtitles
- 60
A portrait of the spectacular, dynamic nature of Britain over the course of one year. In the midst of winter, time-lapses show a magical country shrouded in frost and mist.
The fading sun brings a change to Britain: a time of storms and unpredictable weather.
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- Natural World
- English subtitles
- 60
The fading sun brings a change to Britain: a time of storms and unpredictable weather.
Taking an intimate and detailed look at the remarkable strategies employed by hunters to catch their prey and the hunted to escape. Sir David Attenborough narrates. This is a Higher Quality version.
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
- 58
Taking an intimate and detailed look at the remarkable strategies employed by hunters to catch their prey and the hunted to escape. Sir David Attenborough narrates. This is a Higher Quality version.
In the Grip of the Seasons looks at the challenges of hunting in the Arctic, the most seasonal place on Earth. To a predator, seasonal change is a problem. It means that all the parameters of the hunt - the conditions, the strategies, the prey - change too. Hq version
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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In the Grip of the Seasons looks at the challenges of hunting in the Arctic, the most seasonal place on Earth. To a predator, seasonal change is a problem. It means that all the parameters of the hunt - the conditions, the strategies, the prey - change too. Hq version
Hide and Seek follows tigers, harpy eagles, chimpanzees, army ants and other predators as they rise to the challenge of hunting within the forest - a dense, confusing, three-dimensional world, one in which even finding prey is a maddening task. Hq Version
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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Hide and Seek follows tigers, harpy eagles, chimpanzees, army ants and other predators as they rise to the challenge of hunting within the forest - a dense, confusing, three-dimensional world, one in which even finding prey is a maddening task. Hq Version
Hunger at Sea follows blue whales, sharks, sea lions, frigatebirds, dolphins and albatrosses to reveal the strategies they use to hunt for prey in the big blue.Hq Version
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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Hunger at Sea follows blue whales, sharks, sea lions, frigatebirds, dolphins and albatrosses to reveal the strategies they use to hunt for prey in the big blue.Hq Version
The open arenas of grassland and desert make up half of all land on our planet. In these exposed habitats, predators like cheetahs, bald eagles and lions can usually see their prey. But it works both ways: their prey can see them too. Hq Version
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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The open arenas of grassland and desert make up half of all land on our planet. In these exposed habitats, predators like cheetahs, bald eagles and lions can usually see their prey. But it works both ways: their prey can see them too. Hq Version
The coast is the dynamic border between land and sea; powered by the tides and thrashed by waves, this is a world of continuous change. Opportunities never last long here, so hunters are always in a race against time. Hq Version
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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The coast is the dynamic border between land and sea; powered by the tides and thrashed by waves, this is a world of continuous change. Opportunities never last long here, so hunters are always in a race against time. Hq Version
The final episode of the series visits the frontline of the conflict with the world's top predators, meeting the scientists fighting to save them. Hq Version.
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- Natural World
- No subtitles
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The final episode of the series visits the frontline of the conflict with the world's top predators, meeting the scientists fighting to save them. Hq Version.
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The Hunt - Series 1
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BBC
Taking an intimate and detailed look at the remarkable strategies employed by hunters to catch their prey and the hunted to escape. Sir David Attenborough narrates.This is a Higher Quality version.
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- No
Taking an intimate and detailed look at the remarkable strategies employed by hunters to catch their prey and the hunted to escape. Sir David Attenborough narrates.This is a Higher Quality version.
Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it.
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Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it.
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Wild London
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Joe Loncraine
Sir David Attenborough explores the wildlife of his London hometown, from urban deer to rooftop peregrines and many others, revealing how nature thrives in the world’s greenest major city.
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- English subtitles
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Sir David Attenborough explores the wildlife of his London hometown, from urban deer to rooftop peregrines and many others, revealing how nature thrives in the world’s greenest major city.