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Every year, winds sweep up two billions ton of dust into the sky. At least 25% of it falls on the sea, providing nutrients by the microscopic organisms that are the foundations of ocean life.

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The Blue manakin bird's mating dance consists of a  lead m
ale and 3 supporting males

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I love these documentaries. It was interesting that flamingos build up little mud nests to place their eggs so they stay slightly cooler. But the little baby flamingo who had all that salt build up on his legs was sad :(

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I loved the different ways of manakins to seduce the females, the amazing part is that there are 50 different species of manakins and each has its own dance routine, wonderful!

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Narwhal is the origin of the unicorn legend and has a three meter tusk that is no more than an overgrown canine tooth.

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pictures with snow and deers reminded me about my home <3

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Marine iguanas can hold their breath for up to half an hour, subside off of marine plant life, and their predators are racer snakes

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The Artic Ice Sea is 40% smaller today than it was in 1980.

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The male twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is the only bird in the world that has tail ornaments like this used to tickle the face of a possible mate!

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Some deserts hundreds of kilometers away from the sea provide what's needed for life

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Wolves chase caribou herd through trails in deep snow and if they make a wrong turn the hunt can be a failure. Also baby wildebeest are adorable. They survive by sticking close to Mom and the herd.

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Racer snakes feed on marine iguana hatchlings each year, however due to bad eye sight and other snake clusters getting in the way, the hatchlings have a chance at making it to the ocean for feeding on underwater plant life. Sometimes holding their breath for half an hour each time.

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Tropical rain forest is being destroyed at a rate of 15 million hectares per year. These rain forests store more carbon than anything else on earth.

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Parts of the desert flood every once in a while and algae is able to thrive in the wet conditions bringing flamingos from thousands of kilometers away.

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Humpback whales are recovering in numbers, but their food supply, krill, has decreased by more than half in the last decade.

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The Congo Jungle is the youngest rain forest on earth at 18,000 years old.

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Over-fishing has reduced shark numbers by over 90%.

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Algae can grow to be up to 50 meters high in the cool seas. They have air-filled floats that lift the leaf towards the surface.

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A "Mullet" is a type of flying fish... not just a horrible hair style :P

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Wild life populations have declined, on average, by 60%.

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While whales populations have begun to recover due to more regulations on whaling, their food supply has been more than halved, and thus they are still in danger.

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The gray mouse lemur is only 15 cm long.

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Less than 1% of Antarctica is bare land

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had to close my eyes when walruses were falling down...

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had to close my eyes when walruses were falling down...

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Zevran Night Elf

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Zevran Night Elf

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Thanks God this episode was not depressive!! It was interesting watching sharks and birds fishing. Plus human-induced impact on shores is really huge and getting bigger...

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Thanks God this episode was not depressive!! It was interesting watching sharks and birds fishing. Plus human-induced impact on shores is really huge and getting bigger...

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Zevran Night Elf

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Glaciers are releasing ice into the oceans twice as fast as they did 10 years ago. :(

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Ep.8 - forest fires enable certain seeds to germinate, making them an important part of the cycle of life in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

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Wandering albatrosses need a whole year in the nest before they are able to fly

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Leafcutter ants produce a frequency that makes leaves brittle and easier to cut

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Gentoo Penguins are the fastest swimmers of all penguins.

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Half of all land-living animals live in tropical rainforests.

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Half of the world's orca hunt in the polar seas.

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"Bai's" (spelling?), open watering holes, are unique to the Congo's jungles and there are over a hundred that attract many jungle animals.

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3 million cormorants gather on the Atacama desert coast to fish, although they had disappeared due to overfishing in previous years.

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Phytoplankton are responsible for producing 50% of all the oxygen on earth.

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60% of wildlife populations have disappeared

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Walruses are throwing themselves off of cliffs due to overcrowding caused by melting ice shelves

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Birds of paradise have all come from one original species

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EmPer(username)

Amazing documentary. I was amazed by the "cooperation" between dolphins and seabirds and the tactic dolphins used to flank the fish.

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Seagrass absorbs 35x as much
CO2 than the same area of forest

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Polar bears have black skin and although their fur appears white, it is actually transparent.

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Diatoms are a major group of algae and are among the most common types of phytoplankton. Many Diatoms are microscopic, but some measure a millimeter across. Diatoms contribute enormous amounts of oxygen to our atmosphere.

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In jungles there are orchids with bucket-like flowers with oily liquid inside. Bees males attract females with strong aroma. There is a symbiosis between a bee and an orchid: when a bee collects juice from a slippery bucket, it falls into it and can only crawl out through a narrow tunnel. Climbing through it, it collects pollen on its back and gets the desired smell.
I think it's genial.

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Blue manakins have one of the most complex mating dances out of all birds of paradise. It consists of one lead male manakin, and 3 accompanying younger male manakins.

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Sea urchins have vulnerable undersides. When dealing with larger sea urchins, sheepheads take advantage of this weakness by flipping them upside down to get past the spikes.

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In the Amazon rainforest, it can be hard for animals to get enough salt in their diet, so some, like spider monkeys, need to visit a salt lick to ensure a balanced diet

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Gentoo penguins meet at the peninsula reaching towards South America to breed. Their breeding grounds are uphill, meaning they have to waddle all the way up. They also have the cutest waddle!

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Zevran Night Elf

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Episode 5: From Deserts to Grasslands

Saiga antelope have unique noses that help to filter out dust that may be kicked up by the herd.

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I wasnt aware that the polar bears are the planet's largest land carnivore.

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With sea ice disappearing South's Georgia's future is uncertain

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The flat ice makes it harder for Polar Bears to hunt since there's nowhere for them to be stealthy and hide. This is one of the issues that adds to malnourished and underweight adult polarbears.

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The little water pools in the rain forest are important to Elephants as it's one of the few places they get to socialise with both elephants and other animals!

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The fact that there are at least a million wildebeest on the Serengeti that produce a quarter million calves in a birthing season!

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Leafcutter ant colonies can be up to 8 meters deep!!

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When rainfall is predicable and certain, life can exist in greater variety.

Loved watching the documentary. I had heard a lot about it and I'm glad to have watched it!

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Polar Bears rely on sea ice. When the sea ice goes, so too will the polar bears.

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Jungles cover 7% of the Earth's land mass.

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Sea Otters are important to the ecosystem because they eat the sea urchins. Sea urchins eat the kelp and they need to be kept in check so they don't destroy the kelp forests.

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There are one million wildebeest in the Serengeti Plains in Africa.

Great series!!

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Narwhals are extremely timid creatures in the water and not much is known about them.

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The Jungles of Borneo are the oldest on Earth.

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Herring spawn by laying their eggs on the sea grass and then the males fertilize the eggs.

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Episode 6: The High Seas

There used to be over 300,000 blue whales in the wild, but the over hunting of whales had devastating effects on the populations of these whales, leaving only about 1000 blue whales left.

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There are over 50 different species of the manakin bird and each one has their own highly elaborate dance routine.

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The birds of paradise is the only bird in the world that has tail ornaments used to tickle the face of a prospective mate

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Seagrass is crucial in absorbing CO2, and damn good at it

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The destruction we've caused happened within a single lifetime, about 50 years.

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Seabirds like boobies love to eat anchovies, and congregate in specific parts of the ocean because the Humboldt current brings nutrients from the sea floor that support fish populations

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Every species has it's own unique dance.

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Episode 5: The Alcon Blue caterpillar allows ants to carry it off to their nest, and emits a scent that tricks the ants into feeding them until they pupate. They live with the ants for almost tow years before becoming a butterfly.

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Because of global warming, and the decrease of snow and ice, the polar bear struggles to hunt as they no longer have any places to hide behind, and seal mothers are forced to leave their cubs in the open as there are no snow caves to hide their cubs in.

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In the last 50 years, wildlife populations have on average declined by 60%.

Humans need to do better..  =(

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White surface of Earth cools it and reflects solar radiation back into space, the dark surface absorbs more than 90% of the radiation and warms the planet. Due to climate change, we are losing the protective dome of the Earth.

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Sea-going Manta Rays can be 7 meters from wingtip to wingtip, that's huge, dinasaur-like huge

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I saw a meme of this bird forever ago and was never sure if it was real. THEN it pops up in this episode. The (male) Red-Capped Manakin "slithers" and vibrates along a branch to attract a mate. Part of the routine includes "snapping" its wings lightning fast. It didn't work out for the female bird, but I was very impressed :-)

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caribou populations have decreased 70% in the last 20 years!! 0.0

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I was surprised that albatross spend a year in the nest but that they have no predators during that time.
It was brutal watching the walruses jump or fall to their death from climbing up cliffs to have some space to rest.

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Velvet worms are the stuff of nightmares.

Also tree cutter ants are gardeners, which is sooo cool.

And fungus can be scary. I forget the name but the one that takes over the insects minds and bodies and then sprouts.

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Introduction is a prolonged emphasis on the destruction of nature by humans. It says a half-lie by saying that in a life-span of a human the population of animals declined by 60%, making one think as if it was started not long ago. All of that 'enmity' only to say that humans are to help the nature recover. As if to encourage it, we are shown footage of nature's wonders.
FACT: THE DUST IS BEING SWEPT BY WIND TO THE OCEANS, PROVIDING NUTRIENTS THAT ARE THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE, followed by

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Flamingo birds build mud mounds on which they lay their eggs to keep them cool. After hatching the flamingo babies must travel 50 km by foot in order to reach fresh water. They are guided by a few adults on their journey.

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There are elephants in the rain forest, and it's crazy how much we still don't know about a lot of the species that live in it.

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Half of our reefs are already dead, and in a few decades the rest will go.

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Humpback whales work together to round up krill by using their blow holes to create a curtain of bubbles around their prey.  Once rounded up, the whales can easily lunge upwards to eat.

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Sea otters help keep the population of sea urchin at bay and eat a quarter of their weight each day!!

Also as the we overfish and the water gets warmer we have more jellyfish which does no one any good.

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The Congo is the worlds youngest jungle, but still 18,000 years old

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New guinea is the largest jungle covered island. It has 40 different types of  birds-of-paradise which all evolved from a single crow-like ancestor

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sea otters drive herring to the surface of the water where eagles can reach them. Humpback whales work as a team to catch the fish. Each whale can eat a ton of herring a day.

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Episode 5: Desert elephants are lead by their matriarch.

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Only orangutans have mastered the ability to get insects with a stick

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S1:E6 humpback whales were reduced to a few thousand individuals before commercial whaling was banned in the 80s

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A velvet worm's guide to fine dining:

1. Detect insect prey through vibration and touch

2. Shoot sticky slime to trap the insect

3. Inject prey with digestive saliva

4. Suck out the insides

5. Bon apetit

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Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the sea floor, yet they are home to 25% of all marine species.

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a Blue cape Manakins Work in teams for a main leader in their mating dance. followed by 3 or 2 other juniors

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Baby polar boars are growing up a third of thier expected weight, due to lack of resources in the area.