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A hundred years ago
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there were one and a half
billion people on Earth.
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Now, over six billion
crowd our fragile planet.
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But even so, there are still places
barely touched by humanity.
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This series will take to the last wildernesses
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and show you the planet
and its wildlife
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as you have never
seen them before.
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Imagine our world without sun.
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Male Emperor Penguins are facing
the nearest that exists on planet Earth -
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winter in Antarctica.
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It's continuously dark
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and temperatures drop
to minus seventy degrees centigrade.
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The penguins stay
when all other creatures have fled
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because each guards a treasure:
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A single egg rested
on the top of its feet
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and kept warm beneath
the downy bulge of its stomach.
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There is no food
and no water for them,
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and they will not see
the sun again for four months.
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Surely no greater ordeal
is faced by any animal.
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As the sun departs
from the Antarctic
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it lightens the skies
in the far north.
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It's March
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and light returns
to the high Arctic,
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sweeping away
four months of darkness.
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A polar bear stirs.
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She has been in her den
the whole winter.
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Her emergence marks
the beginning of spring.
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After months of confinement underground
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she toboggans down the slope.
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Perhaps to clean her fur,
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perhaps for sheer joy.
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Her cubs gaze out
of their bright new world
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for the very first time.
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The female calls them,
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but this steep slope is not
the easiest place to take your first steps.
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But they are hungry
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and eager to reach their mother,
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who's delayed feeding them
on this special day.
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Now she lures them with the promise of milk,
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the only food the cubs have known
since they were born
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deaf and blind beneath the snow
some two months ago.
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Their mother has not eaten
for five months
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and has lost half her body weight.
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Now she converts the last of her fat
reserves into milk for her cubs.
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The spring sun brings warmth
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but also a problem for the mother.
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It starts to melt the sea ice.
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That is where she hunts for the seal
she needs to feed her cubs.
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And she must get there
before the ice breaks up.
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For now though
it's still minus thirty degrees
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and the cubs must have
the shelter of the den.
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It's six days since the bears emerged
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and spring is advancing rapidly.
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But even now blizzards
can strike without warning.
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Being so small,
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the cubs are easily chilled and they will
be more comfortable resting in the den.
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But their mother must keep them out and active.
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She's becoming weak from hunger
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and there's no food
on these nursery slopes.
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The sea ice still holds firm,
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but it won't last much longer.
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Day 10,
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and the mother has led
her cubs a mile from the den.
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It's time to put them to the test.
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They've grown enormously in confidence,
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but they don't have
their mother's sense of urgency.
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At last it seems that they're
ready for their journey
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and they're only just in time,
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for a few miles from the coast
the ice is already splitting.
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Now the mother can start hunting
for the seals they must have,
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but she's leading her cubs
into a dangerous new world.
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Nearly half of all cubs die
in their first year out on the ice.
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Summer brings 24 hours of sunlight
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and the thawing shifting landscape.
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Further south the winter snows have
almost cleared from the Arctic tundra.
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Northern Canada's wild frontier.
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Here nature stages
one of her greatest dramas -
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Every year three million caribou
migrate across the Arctic tundra.
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The immensity of the herd can only
be properly appreciated from the air.
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Some herds travel over 2,000 miles
a year in search of fresh pastures.
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This is the longest overland
migration made by any animal.
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They're constantly on the move.
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Newborn calves have to be
up and running the day they are born.
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But the vast herds
do not travel alone.
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Wolves.
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Packs of them, eight to ten strong,
shadow the migration.
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And they are hungry.
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It's the newly born calves
that they are after.
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Running directly at the herd
is a ploy to generate panic.
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The herd breaks up
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and now it's easier
to target an individual.
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In the chaos a calf is
separated from its mother.
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The calf is young,
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but it can outrun the wolf
if only it manages to keep its footing.
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At this stage
the odds are even -
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either the caribou
will make a mistake
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or after a mile
the wolf will give up.
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Midsummer on the tundra
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and the sun does not set.
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At these latitudes
the sun's rays are glancing
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and not enough of their energy reaches the ground
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to enable trees to grow.
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You'll need to travel
500 miles south from here
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before that is possible.
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These stunted shrubs
mark the tree line -
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the beginning of the boreal forest -
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the taiga.
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The needle-shaped leaves
of the conifers are virtually inedible
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so this forest supports
very little animal life.
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It's a silent place
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where the snow is unmarked
by footprints.
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In the Arctic winter
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snow forms a continuous blanket
across the land.
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But as spring creeps up
from the south
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the taiga is unveiled.
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This vast forest circling the globe
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contains a third
of all the trees on Earth
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and produces so much oxygen
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it changes the composition
of the atmosphere.
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As we travel south
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so the sun's influence
grows stronger
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and at 50 degrees of latitude
a radical transformation begins.
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Summers here are long enough for
broadleaf trees to replace conifers.
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Broadleaves are much easier
to eat and digest
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so now animals can collect
their share of the energy
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that has come from the sun.
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It's summer
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and these forests
are bustling with life.
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But the good times
will not last.
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Broad leaves must be shed in winter
for their damage by frost.
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As they disappear,
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so the land becomes barren
with little for animals to eat.
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The inhabitants must migrate,
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hibernate,
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or face months of near starvation.
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The Amur leopard -
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the rarest cat in the world.
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Here, in the deciduous forests of eastern Russia
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the winter makes hunting
very difficult.
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Pray animals are scarce,
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and there's no concealing vegetation.
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The cub is a year old
and still dependent on its mother.
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Deer are frequent casualties
of the harsh winter
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and these leopards are not above
scavenging from a corpse.
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African leopards could
never survive here,
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but the Russian cats have thick fur
to shield them from the cold.
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There are only forty
Amur leopards left in the wild
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and that number is falling.
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Like so many creatures,
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the cats have been pushed
to the very edge of extinction
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by hunting and the destruction
of their habitat.
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The Amur leopard symbolizes
the fragility of our natural heritage.
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The future of an entire species
hangs on survival
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of a tiny number of mothers
like this one.
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All animals, rare or common,
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ultimately depend
for their energy on the sun.
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In Japan the arrival
of the cherry blossom
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announces the beginning of spring.
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The sun's energy brings
color to the landscape.
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The earth, as it makes its annual
journey around the sun,
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spins on a tilted axis.
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And it's this tilt
that creates the seasons.
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The advance of the seasons
brings constant change.
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As the sun's influence diminishes in the north,
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so the deciduous forests of America
begin to shut down
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losing their leaves in preparation
for the dark cold months ahead.
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One season hands over to another.
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Some organisms thrive on decay,
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but most must make special
preparations for winter
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and a life with little sun.
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Whole populations of animals
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are now forced to travel great distances
in pursuit of food and warmth.
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300,000 Baikal teal gather
to escape from the Siberian winter
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by migrating south to Korea -
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the world's entire population
in a single flock.
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But there are parts of the world
that have no seasons.
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In the tropics the sun's rays
strike the earth head on
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and their strength is
more or less constant all year round.
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That is why the jungle
grows so vigorously
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and supports so much life.
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This forest covers only 3 percent
of the planet's surface,
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but it contains more than 50 percent
of all its plants and animals.
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The canopy is particularly rich.
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There are monkeys, birds
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and millions of species of insects,
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exactly how many we have no idea.
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The character of the forest
changes as we descend,
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becoming ever darker and damper,
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favoring different kinds
of animals and plants.
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Less than 2 percent
of the sunlight reaches the floor,
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but even here there is
extraordinary variety.
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In the great island of New Guinea
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there are 42 different species
of birds of paradise,
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each more bizarre than the last.
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This forest is so rich
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that nourishing food can be gathered very quickly.
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That leaves the male
six-plumed bird of paradise
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with time to concentrate
on other matters
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like tidying up his display area.
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Everything must be spick and span.
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All is ready.
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Very impressive,
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but no one is watching.
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The superb bird of paradise
calls to attract a female.
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And he has more luck.
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But what does he have to do
to really impress her?
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She retires to consider her verdict.
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It's hard not to feel deflated
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when even your best
isn't good enough.
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The sun influences life in the oceans
just as it does on land.
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Its richest parts are those
where waves and currents
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bring fertilizing nutrients
to surface waters
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that are bathed in sunlight.
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The seas off the Cape in South Africa
have this magic recipe
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and are hugely productive.
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Summer is the time of plenty
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and it's now that the seals
start to breed.
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The strike of a great white shark
lasts a mere second.
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Slowing it down forty times
reveals the technique
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and immense strength
of this massive predator.
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If surprise fails,
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there will be a chase.
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The shark is faster
on a straight course
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but it can't turn
as sharply as the seal,
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its agility versus power.
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Once the seals have finished breeding
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the giant sharks will move on.
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It's now becoming clear
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that great whites migrate
thousands of miles across the oceans
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to harvest seasonal abundances
in different seas.
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The sun, beating down
on tropical waters,
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powers the weather systems
of the globe.
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Moisture evaporates
from the warming ocean
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and rises to create
great storms.
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The winds generated out at sea
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sweep inland across the continents.
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As they travel across the Sahara
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they create the biggest
of all sand storms
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blowing sand halfway
round the world
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to fertilize the Amazon jungle.
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Winds blowing across the Indian Ocean
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collect moisture and sweep northwards
towards the Himalayas.
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As the air rises,
so it cools.
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The water it carries
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condenses into clouds
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and then falls as the life giving
rains of the monsoon.
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So air currents
powered by the sun
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carry wet air to the middle of continents.
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Without water
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there can be no life,
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but its distribution
over the land is far from even.
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Deserts cover one third
of the land's surface
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and they're growing bigger
every year.
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This is the Kalahari Desert
in Southern Africa.
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It's the dry season
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and thousands of elephants
have started to travel
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in desperate search for water.
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All across Southern Africa animals
are journeying for the same reason.
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Buffalo join the great trek.
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Nowhere else on Earth
are so many animals on the move
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with the same urgent purpose.
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They're all heading
for the swamps of the Okavango,
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a vast inland delta.
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At the moment it is dry,
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but water is coming.
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The travelers are hampered
by dangerous dust storms.
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Females and calves can easily get
separated from the main herd.
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For this pair sanctuary lies
in the patch of woodland a few miles ahead.
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They can't rest
until they reach it.
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The main has already
got there safely.
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Finally, the stragglers
emerge from the dust.
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The exhausted calf is
still blinded by sand.
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Its mother does
everything possible to help it.
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The storm is now subsiding,
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but not all the elephants
have been so lucky.
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One youngster has got lost.
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Thirsty and exhausted,
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it follows the tracks
of its mother,
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but sadly
in the wrong direction.
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At the peak of the dry season
in the Kalahari
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water arrives in the Okavango.
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It fell as rain a thousand miles away
in the highlands of Angola
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and has taken nearly
five months to reach here.
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The water drives out insects
from the parched ground,
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which are snapped up by plovers.
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Catfish, traveling with the flood,
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collect any drowning creatures
the birds have missed.
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00:37:54,887 --> 00:37:59,392
It's a seasonal feast
for animals of all kinds.
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Birds are the first
to arrive in any numbers -
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wattled cranes,
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then black storks.
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Behind the birds come buffalo.
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After weeks of marching
their trek is coming to an end.
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As the water sweeps into the Okavango
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a vast area of the Kalahari
is transformed into a fertile paradise.
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Nowhere on our planet is the life giving
power of water so clearly demonstrated.
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The Okavango becomes
criss-crossed with trails
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as animals move into its heart.
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The new arrivals open up
paths like arteries
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along which water flows,
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extending the reach of the flood.
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This is an Africa rarely seen -
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a lush water world.
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Some creatures are completely
at home here.
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These are lechwe -
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antelope with hooves that splay widely,
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enabling them to move
its speed through the water.
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For others the change
is far less welcome.
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Baboons are somewhat
apprehensive bathers.
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The water brings a season
of plenty for all animals.
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Hunting dogs.
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These are now among
the rarest of Africa's mammals,
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but then nonetheless
the continent's most efficient predators.
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Their secret is teamwork.
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Impala are their favorite prey.
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They start to hunt
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and the pack splits up.
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An aerial viewpoint gives
a new insight into their strategy.
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As the dogs approach their prey
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00:42:24,221 --> 00:42:28,726
they peel off to take up separate
positions around their target.
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They seem to form
a cordon around the impala.
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Moving in total silence
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they take up their positions.
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Those ears can detect
the slightest rustle.
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00:43:27,790 --> 00:43:29,668
The hunt is on.
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00:43:33,588 --> 00:43:37,301
Three dogs close in
on one impala.
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Missed.
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00:43:51,524 --> 00:43:56,112
The lead dog drives the impala
towards the hidden flankers.
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Anticipating their line
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00:44:07,792 --> 00:44:09,544
the leader cuts the corner
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and joins a flanker
for the final assault.
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00:44:15,008 --> 00:44:16,552
It's all or nothing.
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00:44:16,634 --> 00:44:18,094
One on one.
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00:44:22,432 --> 00:44:23,892
The dog has stamina,
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00:44:24,017 --> 00:44:26,437
the impala has speed.
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00:44:40,285 --> 00:44:43,580
Leaping into the lake
is an act of desperation -
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00:44:43,705 --> 00:44:45,792
impala can barely swim.
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00:44:49,629 --> 00:44:52,966
The dogs know their prey
must come out or drown -
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now it's a waiting game.
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00:45:03,853 --> 00:45:06,313
The rest of the pack are calling.
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00:45:07,690 --> 00:45:09,776
They've made a kill
in the forest
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00:45:09,901 --> 00:45:13,571
and this is an invitation
to join in the meal.
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The impala is in luck.
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00:45:27,754 --> 00:45:33,009
A pack this size kills once a day
and everything is shared.
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And this impala is reprieved.
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00:45:54,282 --> 00:45:58,454
The elephants are nearing
the end of their long journey.
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00:46:00,414 --> 00:46:05,086
After weeks of marching
they're desperately tired.
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00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,888
The matriarch can smell water
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00:46:14,972 --> 00:46:18,642
and encourages the herd
to make one last effort.
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00:46:29,195 --> 00:46:30,780
The youngsters are exhausted
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00:46:30,864 --> 00:46:33,283
but their mothers have made
this journey before
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00:46:33,367 --> 00:46:35,911
and they know
that they're close to water.
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00:46:53,346 --> 00:46:57,935
After many hundreds
of miles they've arrived.
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00:48:08,678 --> 00:48:14,768
The lives of these elephants are dominated
by the annual rhythm of wet and dry,
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a seasonal cycle
created by the sun.
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At the southern end of the earth,
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after four months of total darkness,
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00:48:54,269 --> 00:48:58,607
the sun once more
rises over Antarctica.
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00:49:12,623 --> 00:49:17,377
Now at last the Emperor penguins
abandon their huddle.
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00:49:17,461 --> 00:49:20,465
The males are still carrying
the precious eggs
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00:49:20,547 --> 00:49:24,344
that they've cherished
throughout the Antarctic winter.
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00:49:32,143 --> 00:49:36,231
With the returning sun
the eggs hatch.
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Other birds have
not even arrived.
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But the Emperors
by enduring the long black winter
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have given their chicks
a head start.
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These youngsters are now ready and eager
to make the most of the brief Antarctic summer.
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00:50:06,305 --> 00:50:12,554
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