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This blue ball of all the blueballs that live in all of space
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is the best blue ball because this blueball has animals on it.
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Life takes so many forms, only amad man would try and record them all.
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So that's what we're doing.
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We're hunting down animalsfrom every corner of our globe,
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but we aren't hunting with guns or lasers.
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We are huntingwith cameras and our minds...
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...though mostly cameras.
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We found amazing things.
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We will show youthe amazing things we found
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and you will be amazedat the amazing things we've discovered
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in this amazing landmark series,
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Round Planet:
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The Story of Everything.
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For legal reasons my producer,Tabitha, is now telling me
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I have to point out otherplanets are available. Ugh.
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Madagascar, the world's oldest island,
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formed 88 million years ago afterbreaking away from India and Africa.
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Wow, look at India go.
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From up here it may look titchybut it's actually bigger than Franceor six Portugals or five Icelandswith two Belgiums stuck on the side.
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I started an ecotourismresort here back in '99.
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Didn't end well.
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I-- I won't let it affect thisnarration though, Tabitha, I'm a pro.
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Nearly all of Madagascar'sreptiles and amphibians,
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most of its mammals and plants,
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and over half its birdsare found nowhere else on earth.A fact I always included inthe orientation talk at the eco resort,
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but, note to self,
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I'm not here today to talk about thatparticular graveyard of dreams and money.
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I'm here to talkabout Madagascar's life
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and it is simply extraordinary.
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There's a reason it'snot called Normal-a-gascar.
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Madagascar, island of wonder,
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and not the well-knownDreamworks animation franchise,
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Let's be clear on that.
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Much like Rutger, my businesspartner at the eco resort,
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Madagascar has two distinctand very different sides.
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It is divided north to south bya mountainous plateau
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that runs the length of the island.
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These mountains act as animmense cloud barrier,
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blocking moisture laden windsblowing in from the Indian ocean.
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It stops almost any raingetting to the west,
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bits of which are bone dryten months of the year.
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The clouds are penned in,
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like great fluffy sky sheep,to the east side of the island,
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The wet side.
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It absolutely hoses down.
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Five meters of rain can fall in a year,and where there's rain there's,
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and you may be aheadof me on this, rainforest.
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Ah, that noise takes me back.
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The most famous of Madagascar'sunique inhabitants are the lemurs.
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Over 100 species last time I counted,
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but this honking marvel,the Indri, is the biggest.
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Its loud territorial calls penetratethe forest for over a kilometre
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in every direction,ensuring that a resort manager
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has to spend each morning dealing withcomplaints from tired and tetchy guests.
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The indris feed on leaves,fruit and flowers.
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Unlike humans they don’t blendthem up in a juicer,
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They actually eat them...just using their mouths.
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Those huge muscular back legsand massive lobster feet
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are perfect for leaping from tree to tree
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and also useful if you absolutelyhave to shut up
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the lemur honking on the next branch.
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The indri are critically endangered,
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though when five makethe noise of 100 it is hard to tell.
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Their agility is quite remarkable…
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most of the time.
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More sopping wet rainforest
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and thanks to all the rainbamboo grows like stink here.
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It's the perfect habitatfor the bamboo lemur.
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It lives amongst the bamboo.
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It eats the bamboo.It is all about the bamboo.
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This one is after the tender new shoots,
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even some sort of massivefly flash-mob isn't putting it off.
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Yes, it all looks verynice and balance of naturey,
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but what you'rereally watching here is a war.
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Thanks to an evolutionary arms racebetween eater and eaten,
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the new shoots of some Madagascan bamboos
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are packed with enough cyanideto kill a man or a greedy woman stone dead
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and these lemurs eat 12 times the lethaldose every day with no ill effects.
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Nobody knows how they're still alive.
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I should add here thatwhen those 14 dutch tourists got ill,
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there was no concrete evidence it wasfrom the catering at my eco resort.
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That was the official findingand if you doubt it,
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I can send youa photocopy of that document.
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Not my fault, is that clear?
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Right, glad that's sorted out.
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Ok, so a visual reminderthat we're still in the wet bits.
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Ooh, and now danger music.
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Time for a bit of predation then.
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Bingo.
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I'm practically psychic.
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This praying Mantis is an insect killingmachine, constantly on the alert for prey,
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which it grabs with itsscythe like forelimbs and eats alive.
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Its massive eyes and abilityto rotate its head all the way back
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give it 360 degree vision.
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As a result, much likethe current Mrs. Wedgewood,
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it's almost supernaturallyaware of the smallest movement,
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which is why I amcurrently sleeping on the sofa bed.
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The deadly mantiswaits for prey to come its way.
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When you're this hardyou barely need to bother.
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It knows no compromise.It knows no mercy. It knows no...
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…oh, yes,you weren't expecting that were you?
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Yes, it's not often you get atwist in a natural history programme.
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That's a first.
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But not my first remember?
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I was the first naturalistto film a badger in full colour.
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Terry Nutkinsaid it was him, it wasn't.
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And so the hunter becomes prey.
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The chameleon's tongue is oneof the wonders of the natural world,
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unless you're an insect,then you'd just call it the death rocket.
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It's like one of those party squeakersbut with a big wet fist at the end.
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The tongue travels at26 body lengths per second,
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Or 20 feet per second to you and me.
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Sticky mucous and a sort ofsuction cup help it grab its prey,
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which it then hauls into its gummy mouth.
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It must be nice when your meansof survival doubles as a party trick.
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A creature of stealth,
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the chameleon moves slowlyto avoid detection,
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Convinced it is perfectlycamouflaged to its surroundings.
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Let's be frank,it does look a bit like a tree
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but it looks a lot more like a chameleon.
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All that stuff about chameleonschanging colour to hide is a lot of rot.
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Yes, they changecolour but they do it to show off.
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Sorry, Tabby, sorry. Funny mood today.
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You'd think branches would growon trees in Madagascar, and they do,
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yet these two lizardsstill want to have a tear up
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over the right to occupy this twig.
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To a male panther chameleon this isthe perfect spot for wooing a lady friend.
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So, he'll defend his barkypenthouse with all his might.
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The twig of destiny is safe once more.
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Of course, a forest of wet treesmeans a forest floor knee deep
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with rotting leaf litter;
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an all-new realm of Madagascan weirdness.
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Look at this miniscule thing.
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It's a female pygmy chameleon.
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It's got all the bits a normalchameleon has;
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googly eyes, mitten feet,lovely curly tail,
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but just ridiculously tiny.
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Possibly one of thesmallest vertebrates on earth.
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It's so small it makesan ant look enormous,
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unless that's an enormous ant.
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Now it could be, this is Madagascar.
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And what's this in mushroom city?
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It's the male pygmy chameleon,who is even smaller.
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Because these tinyground dwelling things are so rare,
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when they do encounter a prospectivemate there's no time to hang around.
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Now that he's found herhe'll follow her around for days.
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Eventually he'll grab onto her tailand climb very slowly onto her back.
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He's just sitting there waiting forevening when he'll make his move at last.
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Don't they make a lovely couple?
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At least until the day theyget crushed by a careless lemur.
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Night falls on Madagascarand out come the freaks.
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Everything you've met so farhas been positively conventional.
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Aye, aye, who's this?
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Little 'in joke' for the lads and lassesat the Zoological Society there.
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The aye-aye has highly developed fingers,which it uses to tap on trees.
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No, it's not communicating with the dead,it's looking for insects.
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Many Madagascans stillbelieve aye-ayes are evil and hunt them,
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when all the aye-ayes want to dois dig out insect larvae and munch it,
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and what's wrong with that?
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Still, it's quite an odd thing tocome across when you've wandered
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into the jungle in tears after all yourmasseurs quit because it turns out
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Rutger hasn't paid them for two months.
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But water under the bridge,chaps, water under the bridge.
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So that's the wet side of the island.
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But what about the other sidewhere it doesn't rain and rain until
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all the tourists writenasty things on trip advisor?
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That must be where allthe singing lemurs are,
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the fun stuff, the pretties, right?
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Wrong.
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If anything it's more peculiar.
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It's not just dry here, it's rightthrough dry and out the other side.
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The plants and animals have learnedto survive on very little liquid at all,
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but it's not pretty or in any way normal.
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It is darn clever though.
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This is the spiny thicket.
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It's called that becauseit's a thicket... and it's very spiny.
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There's little to no standing water
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and the prominent formof plant life is didiereaceae,
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which is latin for "Ow, I've gota massive spike stuck through my hand."
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What's that Tabs?"Well if it's not it should be."
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Oh, they've all got thesound down anyway, Tabitha.
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So, can life thrive inthis forbidding environment,
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where temperatures soar past 45 degrees?
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Well, come on,this is a wildlife show so of course
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I'm now gonna tell you that, yes, it can.
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This bauble-eyedmunchkin is the Verreaux Sifaka.
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"I see dead people."
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I-- I like that film actually, very good.
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I don't normally like Bruce Willis,but that film was very good.
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This species have managedto colonise a forest so sparse
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that some people say it isn'ta forest at all but a desert.
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They nibble the tiny waxyleaves between the pointy spikes.
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Then, for pudding, they eat thefruits from the Euphorbia,
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A plant full of causticskin blistering sap,
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And to get from hell cactusto hell cactus, these nutters jump.
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Oh you know who's notgonna be able to deal with that?
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Yeah, you and me both mate.
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When they are done with one tree,if you can call it a tree,
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they leap over to another.
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Somehow they landbetween the spikes every time.
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But how do they do it?
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Well I actually ordered a bookfrom Amazon which has the answer
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but it came whileI was out so I'm afraid I cant tell you.
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The spiny forest isn'tthe only challenge facing inhabitants
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on the dry side of Madagascar.
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In the giant Baobab forests
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it just gets so ridiculously hot andarid that life opts out for a bit.
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The Baobab copes by storing upto 100,000 litres of water in its trunk,
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which is the equivalent of100,000 litre bottles of water.
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Um, I think that must be a misprint, Tabs.
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Well no, we'll re-record it later.
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Carry on.
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But at last,after months of drought, the rain comes.
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The Baobab goes into leaf towardsthe end of the dry season
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in an attempt to reproduce.
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No, this isn't a bananadoing a striptease.
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It's a baobab flower.
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Oh lovely set of pollen.
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The rains don't just wake the tree up.
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In holes in its huge trunktiny mouse lemurs stir
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after spendingthe scorching summer asleep.
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It's only the females thatare sensible enough to do this.
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If you're a grey mouse lemurthis is happy hour
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and that flower is a cutprice picture of nectar margarita.
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Oh hello, giant moth,would you like some nectar too?
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Here, let me just...
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Well, so much for the gentler sex.
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Giant moths nil, lady mouse lemurs lots.
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Though of course it makes no oddsto the baobab trees
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whose flowers are pollinatedby all the rumpus.
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And so, everyone's a winner...
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except the moths, obviously, who are dead.
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Once the rains are overand the flowers have gone,
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baobab trees and these female mouse lemurs
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return to their dormant statein the pitiless, scorching heat,
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like Garth, the cameraman,between assignments.
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Well he doesn't watch this,Tabitha, so he won't hear it.
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A few animals do tough it out though,even in the driest times.
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Got something to prove I expect.
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Yes, you're hard as nails, we hear you.
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These fluffy things are juvenileflatid bugs, a type of plant hopper,
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and not, as my editor suggested,tiny knitted octopuses.
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They emerge in ghostly swarmsat night to suck sap from the vines,
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and, by the looks of things, waveat each other. Or are they high
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As they feed, the nymphs pumpout sugary waste known as honeydew,
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which is a slight euphemism.
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Even beautifully back litthat's still bug poo.
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The honeydew coatsthe branches and leaves,
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attracting insects and this little fellow.
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This is the male mouse lemur
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and at just 60 grams he's thesmallest primate on the planet.
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He usually eats fruits and flowersand stuff but when things get really dire
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these tiny animals abandon all sense ofpride and decorum and eat things
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that no mammal should ever have to eat.
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No, not the cockroach too.
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Ugh, that's right, wash away the shame.
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To be fair,eating insects isn't a bad strategy.
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They're highly nutritious.
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This cicada might not look tastyto you but you're not a ring-tailed lemur,
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at least I assume you're not.
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This one is gagging to get her mittson one of these crunchy little beggars.
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These lemurs get their namefrom their distinctive Nokia ringtone.
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No, it's from their tail.
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I knew that, Tabitha.
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Oh, stop hopping.
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But, if they got their name from how badthey are at catching cicadas
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they'd be the butterfingered wally.
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Or clumsy clawed monkey thing.
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Oh, really.
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Oh dear,and now she's been beaten by a wasp.
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Wasps one, lemurs, you need totake a long hard look at yourselves.
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A terrifying four centimetresof wasp grabs a cicada,
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stings it to paralyse itand drags it off to its nest.
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She will lay her eggs on this cicada
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and her larvae will feaston its paralysed body.
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My joint 7,000th favourite wayto die don't you know.
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But now the wasp's done all the hard work,
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the ring tailed lemur comes inand steals the cicada.
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None of the work, all of the benefits.
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Typical.
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Whatever the morals,she's clearly smarter than she looks.
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So, despite the challenges, with one sidewetter than an otter's pocket
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and the other drierthan a camel's airing cupboard,
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things live here
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And, what's more, they're brilliant at it.
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You've got to respect the sheer ingenuity
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of every strange life formthat makes this terrain their home.
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Unlike me. Oh goodness knows I tried.
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You know what got us in the end,is that Rutger had filled out
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a c735 form and in fact weshould have completed the j674.
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I was $3 million in and it turnedout we didn't have planning permission.
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Now, you know I don't bear grudges, Tabby,
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but if I ever seethat man again, I swear...
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Oh. Yes, uh, Madagascar,
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island of wonderful freaks.
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It's ok, Tabs, I caught up in the end.
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If Madagascar looks like a tough place tosurvive, or start an eco resort,
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it's an even tougher place to film.
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Luckily, camera operatorsare amongst nature's marvels.
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This common camera operator,Cinematographer "north-facias"
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is preying on this yellow thing.
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It has patience of steel but thecamera operator is on day rate
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so he can sit here for literally ever,if necessary.
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As long as the batteries last,the camera operator is going nowhere.
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But the frog doesn't seemto have plans either,
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Unless of course youcount staying still as a plan.
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It's a waiting game and thecamera operator is determined to win,
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And to those who wait come prizes.
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Prizes like this.
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The first-ever filmed frog burp.
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Yeah, I know frogs don't burp,Tabby, but just dub something on,
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