[BBC1] Nature's Great Events (met Sir David Attenborough)

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Each of the six hour-long episodes will feature one of the natural world’s most spectacular annual events, which unfold on a vast scale and affect huge numbers of plants and animals.

1. "The Great Melt"
The spring thaw in the Arctic Circle triggers a race to breed for the region's wildlife, including polar bears, arctic foxes, belugas and narwhals.


2. "The Great Salmon Run"
Grizzly bears, bald eagles, killer whales and wolves on the west coast of Canada and Alaska await the annual arrival of 500 million Pacific salmon.

3. "The Great Migration"
The great wildebeest, zebra and gazelle herds of East Africa follow the rains in search of fresh pasture.

4. "The Great Tide"
The sardine run along South Africa's east coast is the world's largest marine spectacle, as gannets, dolphins, sharks and Bryde's whales engage in a huge feeding frenzy.

5. "The Great Flood"
Millions of animals time their migration across the Kalahari Desert to coincide with the the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta.

6. "The Great Feast"
The summer plankton bloom in the north-east Pacific draws in animals in great numbers, from the billion-strong shoals of herring to migratory humpback whales.

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An accompanying hardback book is being published by Mitchell Beazley on 2 February 2009. Called Nature's Great Events: The Most Spectacular Natural Events on the Planet, it is authored by the BBC Natural History Unit, edited by Karen Bass and has an introduction by Brian Leith (ISBN 9781845334567) Official UK website for Nature's Great Events book

The companion volume for the US market, Nature's Great Events: Seasons of Survival, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2009.

A 2-disc, Region 2, DVD will be released by 2 entertain on 16 March 2009 (BBCDVD2863), featuring all six full-length episodes.

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2009 22:18 schreef borisz het volgende:
Morgen maar eens binnen halen .

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2009 22:21 schreef muisje-eliza het volgende:
wauw!!!
dit ziet er zo mooi uit

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Op woensdag 18 februari 2009 22:33 schreef Piles het volgende:
Alsof ze in de snackbar zitten

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Op donderdag 19 februari 2009 16:55 schreef Piles het volgende:
Over 45 minuten de herhaling in HD binnen

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The Great Migration

Each year over one million wildebeest and zebra invade the Serengeti grasslands, making it a paradise for the predators that live there. But what happens when the herds move off again? This programme follows the moving story of one lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration. Nature's Great Events tells the story of the epic trek of herds that follow the rains to fresh pastures, and the tale of the predators they leave behind.

The crew captures the desperate plight of a single pride of lions, revealing a different side to the Serengeti. Rather than being a predators' paradise, it is a land in constant change, with wildebeest following the rains and leaving the lions to tough it out.

The Ntudu pride has seven cubs, and is already suffering as the wildebeest leave to find fresh pastures. The four pride females struggle to find enough food for their hungry offspring. As weeks turn to months, the pride members become more emaciated and frailer, and the number of cubs dwindles to just two.
As the herds begin to return, the plains reveal one final secret. For the first time since 1967, the Serengeti's only active volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai, begins to billow ash and smoke. Filmed from the air, the team captures the exciting action. Fertilised by the volcanic ash over millions of years, these short grass plains are among the most productive grasslands in the world. After months of hardship, the pride's tragic story, through sickness, drought and fire, is over as the herds return, providing plentiful food.

The final 10 minute diary, Pride and Peril, tells the harrowing story captured by film-maker Owen Newman of the Ndutu pride which he followed for over a year.

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Op woensdag 25 februari 2009 12:05 schreef Jnk18 het volgende:
Hmm ik w8 toch op de 720p versie , veel mooier

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Op woensdag 25 februari 2009 14:40 schreef Jordy-B het volgende:
Ik kwam toevallig de aflevering over de zalm tegen. Erg leuk dat ze tegenwoordig bij de nature-series van de BBC zo'n korte achter de schermen geven. Hoe die cameraman met die beren overweg ging, vond ik misschien nog wel interessanter dan dat hele gedoe met die zalmen.

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The Great Tide

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A mighty army of dolphins, sharks, whales, seals and gannets hunt down the billions of sardines along South Africa's east coast each winter. This is the sardine run: an underwater Armageddon, the greatest gathering of predators anywhere on the planet, and the most spectacular event in the world's oceans.
However, in recent years the sardine run has become less predictable, perhaps due to the warming effects of climate change. If the sardine run does not happen, the lives of the animals caught up in the drama hang in the balance.

Pioneering a unique boat stabilised camera mount for surface filming, the Nature's Great Events crew capture all the high octane action as the predators compete for sardines, filmed with aerial, underwater and above water cameras. Super slow motion cameras also capture the very moment gannets plunge into the water, hitting it at 60 miles an hour.

A violent winter storm is the trigger for the sardines to begin their desperate dash. They are followed by a super-pod of 5,000 dolphins and further up the coast more predators gather. A shoal of sardines 15 miles long is pushed into the shallows and aerial shots show thousands of sharks gathering to feed on them.
The climax to the sardine run is a spectacular feeding frenzy as the dolphins round the sardines up into balls on which all the predators feast. Gannets rain down in their thousands, sharks pile in scattering the fish and a Bryde's whale lunges in taking great mouthfuls of sardines.

Life on the Run, the final 10-minute diary, tells how experienced underwater cameramen Didier Noirot, who worked with Jacques Cousteau, filmed the bait balls in shark-infested waters. His adventures include sharks nipping at his fins and a 16-foot shark lunging at his leg.

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Op woensdag 4 maart 2009 23:05 schreef Cee het volgende:
Wat godallemachtig prachtig toch weer. Hier is tv toch voor gemaakt.
Ik ben blij dat ik geen sardine ben.