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LIFE
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Our planet is home
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of over 30 million types
of animals and plants.
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Each individual is fighting for
survival.
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Wherever you look, on land or ocean,
they are extraordinary examples
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about the struggle of living beings for
to stay alive.
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This is the coast of Florida.
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Here, there are strange marks on the bottom of the sea
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signs of a particular animal's strategy.
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It's about the bottlenose dolphins,
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one of the most intelligent animals
from Earth.
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Their prey is a very fish
slippery and fast.
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The dolphins, however, invented a way
brand new to come.
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I'm thrashing my tail, down,
lifting the mud from the small water.
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Then swim in tight circles
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and creates a milk ring around it
the school of fish.
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The shrinking ring
catches the fish inside like a net.
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Panicked, the fish jump to escape.
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But it falls right into the dolphins' mouths
who are waiting for them.
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Again and again,
the pilot dolphin creates a circle,
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Before the others line up in it
perfect synchronization.
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These dolphins are the only ones
which they developed
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this hunting behavior,
what advantages do I offer them.
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These types of advantages can make the difference
between life and death,
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in the fight for survival
of the best.
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This series reveals the strategies that
more spectacular and extraordinary
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that animals and plants have
developed to stay alive.
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For every creature,
every day is full of challenges,
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which must somehow be overcome,
to survive.
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THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE
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Kenya,
famous for its big cats.
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They are the ultimate hunters.
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The cheetahs specialized in
hunting at speed.
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Although very fast, they are fragile creatures,
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built to sprint after small prey.
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They do not have the strength or weight of a lion
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to bring down large animals.
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This male is special.
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He doesn't have to hunt alone.
He taught that strength resides in large numbers.
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There are not two cheetahs, there are three.
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They are all brothers.
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They changed their tactics
and in doing so,
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they took their prey by surprise.
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They learned that if they cooperate
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they can bring down large prey.
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An ostrich.
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A bird dominating a cheetah
by height and weight.
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He cannot fly to escape danger,
but can deliver deadly kicks.
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A female, oblivious to dangers.
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Even if there are three, it's still risky.
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If one of them is injured, the other two will not
managed to bring down such a large prey.
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On the other hand, if they succeed,
payback
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it's huge.
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The male saw one of the brothers,
but only one.
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He is not worried.
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Then, suddenly there are three!
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The female is slower in avoiding danger
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and the cheetahs change their target.
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It takes the combined effort and weight
of the three brothers
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to knock down
such a powerful bird.
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Even now the ostrich can apply
a fatal blow.
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So far, the brothers are winning.
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The ostriches have not yet managed to find it
a way to avoid such tactics.
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Other animals have also developed
surprising tactics to overcome enemies,
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not by brute force
but with extraordinary weapons.
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Madagascar.
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A strange world
where nothing is what it seems.
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To come here it is necessary
of sneaking and trickery.
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The master of ambushes lives in the trees.
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The nun.
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Very well camouflaged and lightning fast,
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these insects are very efficient predators.
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But even they are hunted.
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The chameleon.
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Its exceptional camouflage allows it
to change its color
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to fit the environment.
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and move the eyes independently for
to follow the prey.
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He crept up next to the victim,
until it is within his range of action.
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Then he launches a super weapon.
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His tongue darts at a speed of 15 m/s.
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Not only does he hit the target, but he also grabs it.
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But few hunters have permanent success.
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For them, a hunt is just a meal.
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For prey, the stakes are much higher.
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It's about life...or death.
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While in Antarctica the season changes
from spring to summer,
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the inlets and bays, thawed.
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Animals enter here to feed.
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These are crab-eating seals.
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In fact, they don't eat crabs, but krill,
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small shrimp that
they gather by the billions in these waters.
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These crab eaters sit
on the ice, for sure.
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But as they enter the water, they become very alert,
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and they have reason.
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Killer whales.
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Here in Antarctica, many whales had killed
I live only on fish.
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These whales are different though.
They specialized in hunting seals.
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This fire swam in the open,
unaware of the danger that awaits her.
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At least until now.
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He is in great danger. Escape only if
can hide under this small ice floe.
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It was discovered and surrounded.
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Now agility is her only chance.
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He avoids himself, stays as close as he can
of ice cream.
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It is surrounded.
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The whales close the side, preparing to kill.
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Hunters do not always reach their goal.
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finally,
the decision of the seal and its skill,
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to use ice protection,
help her escape.
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The whales are leaving.
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Recently it was noticed that the whales had killed
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they have much better results
when hunting other fire species.
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Crab-eating seals like this one
it requires too much work.
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The creatures that live in the ocean
they have nowhere to hide from the traitors.
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Their safety consists in numbers.
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A species of fish has developed
another escape tactic.
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Leave the water completely,
breathe in the air and fly!
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After the intense effort to rise in the air,
flying fish
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can glide over 200 m,
to escape from the predators who follow them.
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Not all animals are hunters,
many are vegetarian.
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B�t�lia dintre animale si plante
it's very intense.
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Boa Vista, in the center of Brazil.
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This valley is strewn with rocks
strange, like pinches to vomit.
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They are not natural formations,
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but the legacy of a long battle
between an animal and a plant.
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Capuchin monkeys with brown tassels
they are very intelligent.
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and spend the night sheltering in caves,
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where I leave every morning
after food.
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Down in the valley they find something they like
very much.
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The coconut tree.
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The palm tree produces huge seeds
with a very strong shell
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which defends them against the attack
starving animals.
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For capuchins it is a war of attrition.
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Find out which seed is ripe
and then the fight begins.
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The first operation is to peel the nut
of the hard, fibrous covering.
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Don't try to crack the nut right away,
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And let it go on the ground.
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He learned that a nut must dry
in the sun for at least a week.
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These are part of those already prepared.
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He knocks on them to see if they are ready.
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This large, smooth stone is the anvil.
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This is the hammer.
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It is made of a much harder rock,
different from that of the anvil.
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Now something extraordinary is happening.
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Capuchins who use these
stone tools
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it must have an exceptional level
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of intelligence, planning and dexterity.
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Finally, the nut is cracked
and the monkey reaches the milky core.
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Young people watch and imitate adults,
just as human children do.
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When they become independent,
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he must know how to crack a nut.
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But the learning process is long,
sprinkled with frustrations.
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Learn early that to do
thing like the world
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you need the right tools.
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A capuchin needs eight years
to master this art
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to be able to defeat the formidable
defense of the palm tree.
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Other plants have reversed the roles
and feed on animals.
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This is a very sophisticated trap.
bait,
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it's the nectar on the edge of the disc.
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The trigger, two thin wires that
must be reached within a 20" interval.
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The victim, a fly for which the color
and nectar are irresistible.
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One.
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Two.
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When it is triggered, the trap closes as well
so fast that the fly no longer escapes.
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Venus flytrap
and slowly digest the victim.
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Life's challenges are more
than finding food.
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In the life of any animal there comes a time when
his mind is only on mating.
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One creature does this in an astonishing way.
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Malaysia.
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This strange insect stands apparently
quiet on the forest floor.
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Once in the trees,
this male hides among the leaves
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and an extraordinary transformation begins.
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That will make the difference between being or not
the father of offspring.
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It starts by swallowing air,
which he pushes towards the head.
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Then push out the air bubbles
in the rods that support the eyes,
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just like blowing up a balloon.
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Hence the creature's name,
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fly with eye-rod�.
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A few final tweaks to straighten them out
and to remain so
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and is ready for action.
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It may look heavy, but the eyes are sharp
I improve not only the ability
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to spot predators,
but they are also the key to conquering females.
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In the evening, males and females gather
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and the males begin to measure themselves
each other, eye to eye.
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Who has the greater range between the eyes,
it's first on the list.
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Eye rods are not weapons, but some
measuring sticks,
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used in assessing the size and
the strength of a man.
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If two males are equal
problems arise.
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Competitors are fighting.
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defeated.
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The winner.
Now he has the right to mate
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with all the females in the neighborhood.
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The chivalrous manner of eye-rod flies,
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to settle their disputes for females,
it's not the only way.
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Some animals are much more violent.
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It is the dry season in Zambia.
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The lagoons are also dry,
and the mud is so thick
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until the animals get stuck,
and the consequences are fatal.
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This male hippo lived
in a small lagoon,
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which dried up and transformed
in a deadly trap.
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It is understandable that the females who shared
the lagoon left with him.
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He can't stay long either.
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It needs water to cool down
and for females to mate.
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Here is everything he needs.
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Almost all the hippos in the area
they are in what is left of the Luangwa River.
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It is the only place where there is still deep water.
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The gang is controlled by a strong male.
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Arsita made to join the herd,
more and more females.
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They are happy to live face to face, in a crowd,
but any male that comes here
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in the hope of pairings,
he must first defeat the master.
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The wandering males who arrive have a choice,
submit or fight.
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The master wins.
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He remains the king of this
river channel
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and reserves the right
to mate with females.
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The loser is alive, but he is an exile.
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He retreats to another part of the river, so small
That no female follows him.
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For now his chance to be a father,
he went
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In some animals, the provocation of mating
it is not related to fighting but to courtship.
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Songs and rituals can reach the birds
at extraordinarily complex and beautiful levels.
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In the spring, on the lakes of Oregon,
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he gathers to immerse himself in order to renew himself
friendship relationship.
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The ceremony begins with a series of graceful duets,
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in which one of the partners imitates
the other's actions.
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But the real test is yet to come.
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Only the strongest and most faithful
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they are ready, they unite for
the final triumphant dance.
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Animals that have young must now face
new challenges,
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to defend and feed their offspring.
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in the cold waters of the North Pacific,
there lives a giant.
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Giant Pacific octopus
over 4 m long.
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He is hunting, not after prey,
but after a burrow.
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It has to settle down somewhere
and stay hidden.
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This den is suitable.
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You will live here for the rest of your life.
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It carries fertilized eggs,
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and now, happily, she deposits them in her burrow.
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100,000 eggs.
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In the next six months he will protect you
take care of the chickens.
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He caresses with his tentacles
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to protect them from algae and supply them
with oxygen.
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They are her first and only offspring.
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So he takes great care of them.
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As long as he guards the eggs, he does not leave
the burrow.
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Not at all.
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Unable to feed,
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he is starving.
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Her last act of devotion is to blow water
over the eggs to help them hatch.
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Small, fully developed octopuses appear.
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Although only a few will survive,
she gave them the best chance in life.
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After a long period of vigil,
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she died
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This sacrifice makes it one of
the most devoted mothers in nature.
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Here, 30 m below the forest canopy
from Costa Rica, another devoted mother
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she makes sure that her children will have the most
good start in life.
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This poisonous arrow-frog
strawberry-colored,
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no bigger than a fingernail
and guards the fertilized eggs.
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while the eggs and tadpoles develop,
she and her companion
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they will guard them, making sure they are safe
of traitors.
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But I can't stay here forever.
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The rest of the leaves dry up
and tadpoles do not live in water.
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I have to do something and fast.
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He has to move them and encourage a tadpole
to climb on her back.
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An epic journey begins.
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But not to a puddle as you might think,
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looking for something special.
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It travels on the forest floor towards the root
a tall tree and there he starts to climb.
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For the frog it's a marathon climb,
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similar to the climb a man would make,
on the Empire State Building, with a child in the back.
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Looking for a plant, a bromeliad,
which grows on a tree.
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The plant has a water eye in its center,
a perfect nursery for a tadpole.
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Let the chicken slide.
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But it's just a tadpole
of the six.
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He must return to save them
and the others.
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And he takes one by one and takes each of them
in its own bromeliad.
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Another problem arises.
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The little pool has no food.
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She must provide it.
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Lay an unfertilized egg in each pool
for tadpole food.
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Then I leave.
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A single egg
will not feed the tadpole for long,
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so he must return in a few days
to lay another egg.
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In the next two weeks it will climb
almost 800 m to take care of their young.
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An amazing fate for such a one
little creature.
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while the mother provides the egg,
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the tadpole grows legs
and his tail disappears.
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Then, one day, he leaves the nursery
forever
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and disappears into the forest.
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His mother deserves to rest now.
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Birds are also diligent parents.
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Throughout their life they make huge efforts
only for a few chickens.
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A parent can only do so much.
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throughout the Antarctic peninsula,
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males and females
of chinstrap penguins began their daily commute
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spre ocean pentru a aduna hran�
for chickens.
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He regurgitates his mouth full of krill,
caught a few miles away in the sea.
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one day though
the chickens will wait in vain for food.
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Parents never come back.
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From now on the chickens are on their own.
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It is the hardest period in life
an animal
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and some do not succeed.
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In the following days, the chicks return to shore,
starving.
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Instinctively he heads towards the sea.
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Built to withstand the cold,
they have already accumulated
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a layer of fat, and the outer feathers
acts as an impermeable shield.
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He still needs to learn to swim.
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The polar sea is quite challenging,
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but with the change of wind direction,
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chunks of shiny ice blocked the bay.
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Ice is a problem for any penguin.
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But for chickens it's a disaster.
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I have to pass this barrier
to reach the sea, to feed.
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One, braver or perhaps hungrier,
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pave the way and try to reach the end,
while the others watch.
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It's hard to swim through the ice
and progress is very slow.
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A leopard fire.
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This chick didn't get a chance to learn
how to avoid a fire.
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The end is near.
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The leopard seal throws the young very efficiently,
tearing off small pieces each time.
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Others take a chance.
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But the leopard seal is already ready
for the next victim.
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It's a lottery and the lucky chicks will make it
in the open.
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There is always a degree of luck in life
and that no longer depends on the individual.
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finally,
the constant challenges of life,
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whether it is about finding food or
avoiding predators,
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they are no longer important if you can touch them
the ultimate challenge of life.
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From the frog who dedicates weeks to himself
from the life of tadpoles and
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until the partying orangutan
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eight years to raise her young,
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every animal struggles to fulfill
this last task,
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to pass on his genes and ensure himself
that the next generation will survive.
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in nature
this is the ultimate goal of life.
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LIFE
FILMING LOCATIONS
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During the three years of filming
of the "Life" series, the teams
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they visited all the continents of the Earth,
but the biggest challenge was Antarctica.
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Here the filming was possible�
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only with the help of a large number of people
and organizations.
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An Air Force jet plane
brings supplies to McMurdo Research Station
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and also one of our teams
at the Ross Ice Shelf.
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on the other side of the continent
a team sailed for five days
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through the Drake Strait to arrive
on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Here, a small team was disembarked
on Deception Island,
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where he spent a month on the edge
penguin colony.
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Two people and 2000,000 penguins.
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Another team joined the scientists
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that drills in the ice
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to explore beauty and strangeness
the world below.
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But the most difficult and ambitious filming
required four teams,
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a famous French navigator
and the Ministry of Defense.
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THE ICE ALLIANCE
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The teams had at their disposal
a two-month window
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to film the apex predator
from Antarctica in action.
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I knew it could be found along the coast
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Rosenthal Island, waiting for the penguin chicks
who will enter the water for the first time.
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Jerome Poncet took us there.
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He was the first to sail a yacht,
south of the Arctic Circle
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and since then it has always returned
in the last 35 years.
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He knows how to navigate in Antarctica
like no other.
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His yacht, the Golden Fleece,
it's not an ice breaker,
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but Jerome has his way of sailing.
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Go around the floes one by one
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carving his way as if playing balls.
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Jerome, once he had set his goal,
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he doesn't like to fail.
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So we will stay here for a few hours.
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Jerome is determined to go through this channel.
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It is about hundreds of tons,
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maybe 1,000 to 250,000 tons.
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It's a pool in which you have to push.
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Some icebergs are too big.
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For now, Jerome is preparing
to spend the night.
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for him,
to deal with 1000,000 tons of ice
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it's just an ordinary day at work.
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Progress is slow, but I have to get there
at Rosenthal Island before the penguins leave.
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I succeed and the penguins are there.
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The chinstrap penguin chicks are leaving
at a certain time of the year.
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The team knew that chicks would attract like a magnet,
leopard seals.
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Leopard seals are the largest
of the species, have teeth
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bigger than a lion and a mouth
which can be opened at 180 degrees.
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How close can Dough get?
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A lot, with this fire.
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He lost interest in reflection
her image
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and returns to eat penguins.
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It was very emotional.
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It was a super fire,
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a super fire, which gave me a lot
action and up close,
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but you can't help it
thousands of penguins,
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because they have no chance.
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The team knew where to find leopard seals,
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but finding the other apex predator
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it was a completely different story.
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Little is known about the killer whales
from Antarctica.
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It's time to get reinforcements.
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HMS Endurance,
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it is a patrol ship in frozen areas.
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It oversees the waters of Antarctica
and the crew sees changes every year.
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The last map of the area shows that we are
six miles inside the ice sheet,
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which proves how much
the ice retreated in the last 5-6 years.
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Will there be complications...?
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Series producer, Martha Holmes
and cameraman David Baillie
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he is on board to find and film
whales in the air.
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Endurance carries two Lynx helicopters
which helps
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Antarctic Survey� English�
and the Hydrographic Office.
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on this trip,
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one of the helicopters is assigned to the "Life" team.
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No one has ever managed to film killer whales
who hunts, in the Antarctic peninsula.
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The two teams have only two days
in which they can film together.
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At the water level, "Lana de Aur" has important news.
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They found killer whales that seem to be hunting.
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Ship 435, ship 435, is the "Golden Fleece",
"Golden Fleece", finished.
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Received. We are heading towards you.
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00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:04,580
Guys, what a strong wind, it will be...
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lucky to meet.
But we can try.
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00:55:18,786 --> 00:55:24,188
435, I am "Golden Wool", I lost
eye contact with orcas.
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White.
Yeah, well, I'm on the tip of the iceberg,
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There are about 100 m between us and the iceberg.
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Eye contact. Yes, eye contact.
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From the air, the helicopter team can watch the whales
much easier than the team in the boat.
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435, are "Golden Wool", received.
Finished.
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Working together, the helicopter and the yacht succeed
to follow the whales in the rough sea.
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There are four, yes, four, that's all I see.
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00:56:01,801 --> 00:56:06,082
The change in weather is killing us
chance to film.
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00:56:07,123 --> 00:56:10,924
They took it this way and if we follow them it will be fine.
422
00:56:14,605 --> 00:56:16,647
But will they come?
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00:56:16,687 --> 00:56:18,527
All right, here they come.
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00:56:20,368 --> 00:56:23,649
Whoops, it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
practically 12 at a time.
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00:56:27,651 --> 00:56:29,613
Doug spotted a seal eating crabs,
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next to a piece of ice,
but did the whales see it too?
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00:56:34,733 --> 00:56:37,734
No, keep staring at the screen.
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00:56:51,939 --> 00:56:52,939
They saw it.
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00:56:54,819 --> 00:56:56,421
Action.
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00:56:58,421 --> 00:56:59,942
Can you get closer?
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00:57:21,830 --> 00:57:24,231
That's it, they got it.
432
00:57:26,992 --> 00:57:29,232
It's still there.
433
00:57:32,434 --> 00:57:37,396
A cameraman who films wildlife
always has surprises.
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It took them two months, but they succeeded
extraordinary grace
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collaboration between the ship's crew
and the solitary captain.
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00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:56,242
Such collaborations were the basis
the three years of filming all over the world.
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Adaptation of Bubuloimare