•→ Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world ⇐
¤ The Tree of Life ↓
Sir David Attenborough gives credit to Darwin & Mendel, and comments on evolution and DNA from a modern perspective…
∇ 5 David Attenborough moments ⇓
◊ Interview ⇓
∇ David Attenborough: ⇓ A Life On Our Planet [trailer]
◊→ Tiger: Spy in the Jungle ⇓
David Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using
footage collected by hidden-camera-carrying elephants. Over two years, the elephants help capture the most intimate portrayal of tigers ever filmed. As they grow, the cubs move from their mother’s milk onto meat. Fortunately, the tigress is a skilled hunter.
Charger, their imposing father, keeps his distance but helps to protect his vulnerable offspring from rogue male tigers and leopards.
The half-grown cubs are learning the hunting and fighting skills they will need as adults. The cameras also give an insight into the worlds of other animals, with leopards presenting a real threat to the growing cubs and deer making good hunting practice.
The tigers head to a water hole to cool off on a steaming hot day and the spy-cams show that the jungle pools are a magnet for a whole array of forest animals, including wild boars and sloth bears. But disaster strikes when both the cubs’ parents are injured and a rogue male puts in an appearance.
Their biggest challenge is learning to hunt for themselves, but their mother soon loses patience. Many new animal stars make their appearance, including an irresistible jackal family that has to cope when the tiger family invades their backyard, and a flock of peacocks that tease the tigers by playing a game of dare.
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Φ The Private Life of Plants ⇓ [1995]
A study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants, it was the second of Attenborough’s specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth. Each of the six 50-minute episodes discusses aspects of a plant’s life-cycle, using examples from around the world.
The series utilises time-lapse sequences extensively in order to grant insights that would otherwise be almost impossible. Plants live on a different time scale, and even though their life is highly complex and often surprising, most of it is invisible to humans unless events that happen over months or even years are shown within seconds. Like many traditional wildlife documentaries, it makes use of almost no computer animation. The series also discusses fungi, although as it is pointed out, these do not belong to the kingdom of plants.
∇ Travelling ⇓
∇ Growing ⇓
How new leaves fight for a place in the sun.
∇ Flowering ⇓
How flowers use colours and perfume for procreation purposes
∇ The Social Struggle ⇓
∇ Living Together ⇓
∇ Surviving ⇓
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