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Asia - the largest
of all the Earth's continents.
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It stretches from the equator
to beyond the Arctic Circle.
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This is a continent of extremes.
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Here, temperatures can drop
to below minus 60 degrees Celsius.
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0n land, survival is almost impossible.
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But for a few weeks in summer,
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the ice melts
and the coast is transformed.
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This is one of the biggest gatherings
of mammals
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to be found anywhere on Earth.
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These are Pacific walrus.
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For most of the year
they feed out in the Arctic Ocean,
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emerging to rest on the sea ice.
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But now climate change has
melted the ice here,
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and the only place within reach of
their feeding grounds where they can rest
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are a few beaches, such as this one.
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100,000 of them, almost the entire
world population, are here.
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They are gigantic.
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A male can weigh over a tonne...
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ALL GRU NT
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...and many die in the scrum.
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On a beach, 250 miles to the west,
there's a further danger.
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Polar bears.
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They, too, have been forced to spend more
time ashore by the dwindling ice.
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And now they're very hungry.
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But adult walrus are tough,
well armed and agile in water,
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and could fatally injure the bear.
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He's failed.
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The narrow beaches here
are backed by cliffs...
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...and some walrus scramble up them,
escaping the crowd.
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At the top,
they are 80 metres above the beach...
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...but this is not a place
where a walrus should be.
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Nor are they the only ones
to have found it.
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The bears have got up here too.
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The walrus's instinct
is to find safety in the water.
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They can still smell the sea.
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And they can hear it.
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Just the polar bear's presence
is enough to spook the walrus.
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Many walrus that climb the cliffs
never make it back to the ocean.
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Even once the polar bears have moved on,
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the walrus need to return to the sea,
and some take the nearest way to do so.
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As one crashes on the rocks,
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those on the beach stampede
and more lives are lost.
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In the course ofjust a few days,
over 200 walrus die.
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Now the polar bears can feed
on the carcasses.
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These events only occur
once every few yea rs,
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but as the world warms
and the ice retreats still further,
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they may become more frequent.
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Inland, the ground is gripped by winter
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for six months of the year.
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Two million square miles of northern
Russia are locked beneath the ice.
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But even so, some creatures have
managed to make their homes here.
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They leave evidence
of their presence in the snow.
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These tracks all lead in one direction.
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Kamchatka has the highest density
of active volcanoes on the planet.
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Temperatures underground
reach 250 degrees Celsius...
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...pushing up cauldrons of boiling mud
and clouds of steam...
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...but in spite of the dangers,
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some creatures travel long distances
to visit the area.
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A Kamchatka brown bear.
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He spent the long winter
sleeping in a den below ground
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and now he is extremely hungry.
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But finding food means getting dangerously
close to the scalding fountains.
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This is the only place
for many miles around
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where a bear can reach grass that
is snow free, thanks to the hot earth.
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Putting a foot wrong here
could lead to real trouble,
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and bodies have been found of bears
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that stumbled into the pools
and were scalded to death.
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And this bear is not alone.
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Brown bears, by and large,
are solitary creatures
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and this is one
of the few times of the year
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when they tolerate the presence of others.
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And now they are so well fed and relaxed
that they even have time to play.
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This volcanic spot has become
a warm oasis in Asia's frigid north.
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Away from Arctic Russia,
Asia has the hottest deserts,
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highest mountains
and tallestjungles on our planet.
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This is a continent
of incredible variety...
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...but it was not always so.
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Some 89 million years ago,
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India was an island lying away
to the south, but it drifted northwards,
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pushing up the sediments
between it and mainland Asia.
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Over millions of years,
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the sediments lying between crumpled up
and rose to form the Himalayas.
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Now these are the tallest
mountains on the planet.
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They stand over five miles high.
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India is still moving northwards,
and these mountains are still rising.
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Asia's mountains stretch all the way
from Afghanistan,
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across northern India,
to here in central China.
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These are the mountains of Shennongjia,
among China's highest.
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The forests here were, until comparatively
recently, the least known in the world.
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Few outsiders had any idea of
what animals might be living in them.
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There were stories of human-like
monsters - yetis, abominable snowmen -
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who left strange footprints in the snow...
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...but little else.
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And indeed there are monkeys
living in these snowy forests,
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and they're very strange.
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Meet the blue-faced, golden-coated,
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snub-nosed snow monkey.
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They are among the heftiest of monkeys.
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Big animals keep warm more easily
than small ones,
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and they survive in colder conditions
than any other monkey on Earth.
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They all have snub noses.
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Perhaps prominent ones
would only too easily get frostbitten.
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The whole group huddles together at
the slightest opportunity to keep warm...
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...and who wouldn't?
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Even adults, if they get separated
from the group, can freeze to death.
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Now, in the depths of winter,
food is desperately hard to find.
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The head of the family leads them
to the edge of their territory
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in search of something to eat.
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The only food here
is wretchedly unnourishing -
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bark, moss and lichen.
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There's hardly enough to
sustain one monkey, let alone a family.
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But they share it peaceably.
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Survival depends on the group
keeping together.
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In these mountains, any food is precious.
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MONKEYS SCREECH
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A rival group.
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They, too, are searching for food.
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The two males go head to head.
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MONKEYS SCREECH
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SQUEAKS
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SQUEAKS
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And now the females join the fray.
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MONKEYS SCREECH
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Outnumbered, the intruders retreat.
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Their leader is the last to go.
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The fight was over the smallest of meals,
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but it was ferocious nonetheless,
and the family is now scattered...
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...but they muststay together.
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The youngest are already badly chilled.
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SQUEAKS
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She can see her father,
but has she the strength to reach him?
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SQUEAKING
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Back to safety and warmth.
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The huddle is the only source of warmth
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in these bleak, frozen forests.
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To the west of the Himalayas, in Iran,
lie some of the hottest deserts on Earth.
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This is the Lut Desert...
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...and here temperatures
can reach 70 degrees Celsius.
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The blisteringly hot rocks
and baking sands of Iran's deserts
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may appear totally lifeless...
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...but a few trees manage to grow
in the shade of the canyon walls...
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...and here at least
migrating birds passing through
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can stop for a little rest.
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A flycatcher.
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With luck, there might be
a meal of some kind here.
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There are spiders in the crevices.
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Not much, but worth having.
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And there's something moving up there.
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The bird was mistaken.
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It was a viper with a lethal bite.
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This species has only recently
been discovered
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and, so far, it has been found
nowhere else but here.
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Its camouflage is so effective
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that it's almost impossible to see it
on these rocks.
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And on its tail, moveable scales have been
modified to look like a spider's legs...
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...and its tip like an abdomen.
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Migrating birds only appear in this barren
desert during a few weeks of the year.
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This is the snake's only chance to eat
for months.
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A shrike.
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It has flown here from Africa
and hasn't fed for days.
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SQUAWKS
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Better luck next time.
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Conditions are almost as harsh
on the dry plains of northern India.
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A male Sarada lizard does his best
to get himself noticed.
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It's breeding time.
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The wide open spaces
are a good place to be seen.
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He's only 7cm tall,
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but a rock will help to make him
conspicuous.
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And he's already been noticed
by one female.
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It's time for him to show off.
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The more healthy and virile he is,
the brighter his colours are.
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And females like bright, flashy colours.
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But he, it seems,
is not as conspicuous as he might be.
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In the neighbouring territory,
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there's another male
who's found an even bigger rock.
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So the newcomer is not making
quite such a good impression.
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The one on the big rock
is attracting all the females.
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The newcomer will need a higher platform
if he's to be seen by a female,
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and he'd better do something about it.
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He only lives for a year.
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This is his one chance.
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He will have to fight, if necessary.
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His rival isn't backing down.
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Sarada males can fight to the death.
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The newcomer has won.
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Now he can claim the high platform
and the best territory...
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...and the females will choose him
for a partner,
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as long as he can fight off
the other claimants.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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As the Himalayas rose
over millions of years,
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they eventually formed a gigantic barrier
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that prevented rain clouds
from the south travelling farther north...
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...and a completely new weather system
developed in Southern Asia.
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The monsoon.
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These drenching annual rains
transformed Southern Asia.
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Dense rainforests formed,
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in which plants and animals of all kinds
were able to proliferate and evolve.
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Some of the tallestjungles grow
in Indonesia,
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the home of the largest
of all tree-living animals of any kind...
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...the orang-utan.
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There is a multitude of things
to eat here,
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but you have to know where to find them.
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Young orangs stay with their mother
for years, learning how to do that.
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This youngster has onlyjust started.
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Termites - an important source of protein.
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But perhaps they are an acquired taste.
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He's off to search for something
he might prefer.
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It's hard to know where to look...
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...or where it's safe to clamber.
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Different levels in the forest
contain different foods,
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and some of the most delicious are
in the very highest parts of the canopy,
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50 metres above the ground.
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He's a couple of years old
and he's already getting adventurous.
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His mother could climb
right to the top in ten minutes or so
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if she wanted to, but she lingers,
to keep an eye on him.
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A fall from this height could be fatal.
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Where the gaps between the branches
are too wide for him,
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his mother lets him use her body
as a bridge.
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Only ten metres to go before the top.
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But it's hard going for small hands.
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He's had enough.
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Time for a rest...
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...with mother.
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And this is his reward...
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...ripe mangos, sweet and juicy.
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There's so much he must learn.
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He will depend entirely
on his mother until he's seven.
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It's the longest of all childhoods
except ours.
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In these dense forests,
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it's not easy for animals
to see one another at any distance,
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but songs carry well through the jungle.
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ANIMALS CALL
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This is the characteristic sound
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that echoes through the Sumatran forest
at every dawn.
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RESONANT CALL
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But what can this be?
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CALL CONTINUES
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Of all the sounds
in the Indonesian forests,
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this is one of the strangest to our ears.
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It can be heard nowhere else on Earth.
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RESONANT CALL
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And this is the singer.
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A Sumatran rhinoceros.
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She's tiny, only a fifth of the size
of her more familiar African relatives.
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Her head could rest comfortably
on your knee.
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She is the gardener of this Eden.
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She doesn'tjust live in it -
she helps to create and sustain it.
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She eats fruits and then sheds
the seeds in her droppings
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and so spreads the foods she prefers
through the forest.
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CALL CONTINUES
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In this dense tangle, she uses sound
to locate a possible mate.
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But her calls are unanswered.
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She is living behind a fence...
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...for her own protection.
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In the past, Sumatran rhinos were
widespread throughout Southern Asia.
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Today, there are fewer than 70.
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It may well be that as she approaches
the end of her natural life,
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she will have become one of the last
of her species...
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...because, in the last 40 years,
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one-third of the forests of Southeast Asia
has been destroyed
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in order to sell timber and food products
around the world.
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The forests of Borneo and Sumatra,
home to the orang-utan, rhinos
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and thousands of other species that have
evolved here over millions of years...
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...are now in real danger of being lost
for ever.
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It seems that the animals
whose home this once was
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are worth less to us
than the land they lived on.
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Viewed from space, the scale
of destruction is only too obvious.
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Asia has undergone a faster change
in the last 100 years
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than at any other time in its history.
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Its forests are being annihilated,
its cities are expanding,
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and as the human population
approaches 4.6 billion,
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the largest of all continents
is no longer able, it seems,
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to allow space for its wildlife.
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The oceans around Southern Asia
are also feeling this pressure.
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These seas feed billions of people
around the world.
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For many fishermen here, their catch
is their only source of livelihood.
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And there is one fish here
that they prize above all others.
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The whale shark.
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It swims slowly,
gently harvesting the plankton.
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It's almost 20 metres long -
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the largest fish in the world.
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They are also under threat.
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Like many shark species in Asia,
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populations have declined
by more than half in recent years.
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They are an easy and valuable catch.
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But here, there is a respect
for the seas and their inhabitants.
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Whale shark hunting has now been
banned across Indonesia's waters.
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This whale shark plays a different part
in the lives of these fishermen.
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They feed him, and the relationship
seems to bring joy to both parties,
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and with this new protection
has come something truly remarkable.
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Whale sharks from far away
are seeking out these fishermen,
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and in these safe waters, there is
a chance for their numbers to increase.
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And maybe one day
other shark species will be protected too.
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The people here have made
a simple but extraordinary choice -
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fishing in a way that is sustainable
for themselves and the animals.
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Caring for wildlife
is surely our shared responsibility.
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Across this vast continent and across
the world, it is decisions like these
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that are key to protecting
the planet's most precious diversity.
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Next time...a and of the unexpected.
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The richest and most diverse
continent on Earth...
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...50uz‘h America.
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