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Experience a world
beyond imagination
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where fish can fly...
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lizards walk on water,
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apes master tools
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and frogs disappear
in plain sight.
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Animals do the
smartest things...
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through every stage
of their lives.
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From leaving home...
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to raising a family.
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From finding food...
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to making friends.
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They find ingenious
ways to survive
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against all odds.
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Welcome to The Secret
Lives of Animals.
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We can all be guilty of taking
a good meal for granted.
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{\an8}But in the animal kingdom,
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finding enough food
is anything but easy.
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This bottlenose dolphin
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needs a whopping
16,000 calories a day.
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As much as we eat in a week.
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And in the vast, maze-like
marshlands of South Carolina,
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that's tough.
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The fish he hunts are fast.
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They can easily give him the slip
in these deep, narrow channels.
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And twice a day, when
the tide goes out...
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hunting gets even tougher.
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As the watery world shrinks,
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razor-sharp oyster
beds are revealed.
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They would shred his skin.
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He can't get to the fish here.
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It's a problem he
shares with his pod.
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To get the food they need,
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they must use the low
tide to their advantage.
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They search for a
clear stretch of bank
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away from the
dangerous oyster beds.
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Once they've found
the perfect spot...
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they begin to work together.
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They stir the water...
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to move the fish...
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into the open.
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And then...
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surround them.
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Driving the fish
towards the bank,
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they whip up a curtain
of mud behind the shoal.
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In a final move,
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the pod charge as a
perfectly synchronized unit.
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They force their prey
out of the water...
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and follow them to hunt on land.
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It's a huge risk for a
heavy aquatic mammal.
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If they were beached, they
wouldn't survive for long.
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But they have mastered
the art of strand feeding.
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Only a fraction of bottlenose
dolphin pods worldwide
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have learnt to use tidal
mudflats in this way.
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And they'll do it until
they've had their fill.
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Finding food is
a daily battle...
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but overcome the challenge
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and the world is your oyster.
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In Malaysia...
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it's easy enough for a bee
to get an early morning meal.
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After all, there are thousands of
nectar-filled flowers on offer.
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But all is not as it seems.
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Tricked by an orchid mantis
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no bigger than a sugar cube.
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This sophisticated hunter
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is one of the world's
best disguised predators.
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With legs and an abdomen
that look like petals,
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she's bigger and more beautiful
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than the flowers
she hides amongst.
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She's chosen her spot well.
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The center of a bee highway.
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Simply
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irresistible.
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She strikes twice as
fast as you can blink.
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But success blows her cover.
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The diner could
become dinner herself.
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But orchid mantises
have many talents.
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Those petal-like legs
aren't just for show.
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When she spreads them, she can glide
further than any wingless insect.
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Safe.
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But without any flowers,
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there are no bees here either.
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To eat, she'll have to
make the food come to her.
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Like a flower, she releases
an intoxicating perfume.
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An artful imitation of the chemicals
a bee uses to attract its hive mates.
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It's so convincing,
as it fills the air...
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it lures unsuspecting bees...
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straight into her clutches.
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Armed with so many
exceptional talents,
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she can eat almost anywhere.
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Knowing how to find food
comes naturally to some.
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But for others, it's
a lifelong education.
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This female red colobus monkey
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lives on the lush tropical
island of Zanzibar.
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Making sure her family eat
their greens is no problem.
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Colobus are vegetarians.
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And they like nothing
better than young leaves,
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flowers...
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and unripe fruit...
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which they eat with gusto.
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Getting all the vitamins
and carbs they need.
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But for her family to
grow big and strong...
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they also need protein.
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And there's one tree
that has it in abundance.
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The mango.
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Its young leaves
are 20% protein.
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But eating them...
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comes at a cost.
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They are laced with poison.
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And cause severe bellyache.
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Like all good mums, she
knows how to make it better.
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But it means venturing into
someone else's territory.
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It may not look like much...
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but charcoal is an
inspired remedy.
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Taken quickly after
eating toxins...
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it absorbs and neutralizes them.
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In human medicine, we use
charcoal to treat poisoning.
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But colobus are the only
primates clever enough
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to have figured this
out for themselves.
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And they've unlocked
a protein-rich feast
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that's off the menu for most.
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Helping to sustain more of them
in this small corner of Zanzibar
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than anywhere else on Earth.
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We all know one of the secrets to
a healthy life is a balanced diet.
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But to achieve that,
you have to plan ahead.
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Meet Portia...
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a jumping spider.
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Only the size of a pea.
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She lives in the forests
of Southeast Asia.
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To survive, she has
to eat other spiders.
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All armed and dangerous.
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And some more than
double her size.
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Portia is up to the challenge.
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Her brain may be the
size of a pinhead,
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but it's a powerhouse.
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A golden orb spider,
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waiting to catch prey in
a deadly, sticky trap.
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Portia approaches
with extreme caution.
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Careful to keep most of
her body off the web...
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she plucks.
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Orb weavers have poor vision,
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and rely on their web
as their eyes and ears.
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The vibrations
fool the orb weaver
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into thinking there's a struggling
insect trapped in the web.
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It's a stroke of genius.
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Once it's in reach,
Portia pounces.
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Her deadly venom
overpowers it in seconds.
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But in the forest,
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Portia needs a different
approach for different targets.
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Her brilliance lies in her
ability to change her tactics.
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A silver-faced spider,
high out of reach.
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This web can't be plucked.
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She needs a new strategy.
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Assessing her surroundings...
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Portia looks for
a vantage point.
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Without even being able to
see her prey, she climbs.
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Until...
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she has the upper hand.
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Most spiders use their
silk to make webs,
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but Portia is no
ordinary spider.
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She makes an anchor point...
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to bungee undetected.
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And this genius jumping
spider, feasts again.
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Some are born with the skills
they need to get a meal.
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For others, finding their favorite
food can be a harder nut to crack.
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Autumn is the season of bounty.
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And for this Japanese crow,
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walnuts are the
pick of the crop.
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Because they are amongst the most
nutritious things he'll eat all year.
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This city slicker's problem
is getting into them.
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To solve it, he needs to
think outside the box,
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and take advantage
of his urban home.
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Positioning is everything.
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So close,
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but not close enough.
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There we go.
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Using a car as an
oversized nutcracker
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is nothing short of brilliant.
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But on the busy city
streets, it works too well.
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The nut quickly turns to dust.
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And with it, his meal.
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Most birds need
instant gratification,
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or they simply just give up.
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But what sets crows apart
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is their ability to know
a better reward is coming
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and to wait for it.
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Perhaps somewhere
with reliable traffic
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but fewer cars
will do the trick.
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A driving school.
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Could this be the answer?
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Lessons run seven days a
week, every half hour...
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like clockwork.
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And this clever corvid...
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can set his watch by it.
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He has a secret stash on site.
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This time he puts his plan
into action with a flourish.
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Cracked it.
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With fewer cars, his meal
stays in bigger chunks
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and he can eat in peace.
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Intelligent planning means
this brainbox can enjoy a meal
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that would otherwise
be impossible to crack.
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We are all united by
our quest to find food.
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It takes precision planning...
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hard work...
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and even a bit of trickery...
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to get the ingredients
we need for life.
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To film bottlenose
dolphins hunting on land,
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the team ventured deep into the
coastal backwaters of South Carolina.
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{\an8}There are so many places
for these dolphins to hide.
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{\an8}These creeks just go
forever back in the marshes.
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To locate the dolphins,
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they enlist the help of marine
biologist Weatherly Meadors.
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I grew up on the water.
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I've been working in these
creeks my whole life.
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{\an8}So I would say I know them
like the back of my hand.
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This estuary is hugely dynamic.
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The biggest thing to be aware
of is what the tide is doing.
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The tides impact everything.
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Dolphins only strand feed for
a brief period at low tide.
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The best way to track them
down is with an eye in the sky.
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And it soon pays off.
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All right, we got some
dolphins in the creek.
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Now all they have to do
is keep up with them.
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But that's easier
said than done.
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The water visibility back in
these creeks is just so muddy.
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You really can't see
anything, can you?
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- No.
- Geez.
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And to make things even harder,
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bottlenose dolphins can hold their
breath for up to ten minutes.
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He just gave us the slip.
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I can't believe we
lost them again.
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Just your classic wildlife.
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You think you get
everything lined up
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and then the animals have decided to
do whatever they wanna do instead.
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With low tide
quickly approaching,
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Weatherly turns detective.
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There's a couple of
splash marks on the beach
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that looks like maybe
a dolphin came up here.
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Looks like one, two and three.
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Maybe four.
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The splashes suggest
four dolphins
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have been strand
feeding on this bank.
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And Weatherly thinks
they might return.
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Yeah, I got it.
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Hayes and the team
move into position.
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{\an8}So we're coming at
this, two approaches.
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We've got Dawson on the beach.
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We're on the gimbal.
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Fingers crossed.
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But the dolphins are
nowhere to be seen.
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With their window of opportunity
fading by the minute...
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the crew are losing hope.
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Then Weatherly spots something.
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We got one moving real quick.
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Oh, my God. There's
four all together.
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- Do you see that?
- Okay, we're getting it. Got it.
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Okay, turning in.
257
00:27:09,963 --> 00:27:14,593
He is coming up. We got beautiful
light and we're really hopeful.
258
00:27:15,093 --> 00:27:17,095
They're on the
circles back there.
259
00:27:19,431 --> 00:27:21,266
It's the moment of truth.
260
00:27:21,767 --> 00:27:24,561
Will Weatherly's
detective work pay off?
261
00:27:27,064 --> 00:27:29,024
Here we go. Right
in front of us.
262
00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:34,613
They're doing it.
263
00:27:37,449 --> 00:27:39,952
We've been waiting
for a long time.
264
00:27:43,413 --> 00:27:45,165
Look at them go.
265
00:27:49,336 --> 00:27:53,090
At last, the crew get
the shots they need.
266
00:27:54,550 --> 00:27:57,553
Dolphins hunting on land.
You don't see that every day.
267
00:27:58,095 --> 00:27:59,847
You certainly don't.
268
00:28:04,935 --> 00:28:06,019
Next time...
269
00:28:07,896 --> 00:28:13,777
To survive, sometimes you
have to fake it to make it...
270
00:28:18,699 --> 00:28:20,742
using dirty tricks
271
00:28:22,369 --> 00:28:24,204
and devious scams.
272
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,707
To outsmart the competition...
273
00:28:28,709 --> 00:28:31,795
you must learn the
art of deception.
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