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Life, life
Directed by Martha Holmes, simon black, and Stephen Lyle.
Screenwriter: PaulSpillenger
Starring: David Attenborough, doug allen, Jonathan Smith and Oprah Winfrey.
Type: documentary
Country of manufacture: UK, Greece
Language: English
Release date: 2009- 10- 12
Number of groups: 10
Duration: 60 minutes
Also known as BBC: Life, Life Pulse.
"Life" is a series of ten documentaries produced by BBC, which started broadcasting on BBC TV in June 65438+1October 65438+February 2009. The production of this film lasted four years, all in high definition. Each episode is 50 minutes, plus 10 minutes of shooting tidbits, totaling ***60 minutes. According to The Times, this series costs10 million pounds, but BBC officials have not confirmed this figure. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 50th anniversary of the publication1on the Origin of Species. To commemorate, this film tries to show the diversity of colorful species in nature and their magical survival skills evolved to adapt to the environment.
1。 Challenge Life Challenge Life
At the beginning of this series, various unusual foraging, predation, courtship and brooding behaviors in the animal world around the world are listed to introduce to the audience. In florida bay, the leading bottlenose dolphin flapped its tail fin, creating a muddy curtain wall in the sea. Other dolphins preyed on these fish when they jumped out of the water and tried to escape. Other unusual cooperative predation techniques include three cheetahs cooperating to kill ostriches and Antarctic killer whales attacking seals. Brazilian capuchin monkeys learned to open nuts with stones to eat; High-speed cameras show you how flying fish fly to avoid the predation of swordfish; Venus flytrap sets traps for its victims; Male hippos are fighting for territory by the river. Some species will do their best to protect their offspring. A female strawberry poison dart frog spared no effort to carry her six tadpoles on the surface of the pineapple crown and feed them with their unfertilized eggs. The female Pacific giant octopus made the final sacrifice to protect the safety of her eggs and held her post until she starved to death. Little Antarctic penguins on Puzzled Island are trapped in ice floes. Abandoned by their parents, they can only hunt in the open water by themselves. A lonely little penguin struggled forward only to be ambushed by a leopard seal. This episode tells the story of a film crew working with a French sailor and the Royal Navy to film the fiercest predator in Antarctica.
2。 "Reptiles and Amphibians"
The opening scene of this episode is the Komodo monitor lizard shot by the flight camera team from a distance. According to attenborough, this is the last land in the world that is still notified by reptiles. Although they look primitive, reptiles and amphibians here thrive on various ways of life. Venezuela's pebble toad escaped predators by falling freely. The double-crowned lizard nicknamed "Jesus lizard" can really walk on the water like the legendary Jesus, while the Brazilian dwarf gecko is very light and can't cut water even if it lies on its surface tension. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals, and some of them have evolved unusual ways to keep warm. Nano-chameleons darken their skin color on the side facing the sun. A male red-banded snake disguised as a female with false pheromones to deceive and attract other males to keep warm, so as to increase his chances of mating. Madagascar iguanas hid their eggs in the ground, but the pig-nosed snake that ate them found them. The golden ring snakes in Niue lie in a room, and they can only visit through an underwater tunnel. Egg protectors for other reptiles. Horned lizards repel predators, but bigger rivals, such as whipsnakes, show different reactions-lizards will die twice. Komodo dragons prey on buffaloes in the dry season. They crushed the buffalo with straw for three weeks because it slowly died of a poisonous bite, and then walked with the body for four hours. In The Stand of Life, the film crew of "Monitor Lizard" tells the painful experience of shooting dragon hunting.
3。 "Mammals"
Wisdom, pedigree and strong family ties make mammals the most successful animal group on earth: they can even survive in the Antarctic winter. Here, Weddell seal let her swim under the ice for the first time. In East Africa, a brown Sengi used a mental map and was allowed to outsmart a route chasing lizards. It takes a young monkey four years to learn how to find and extract beetle larvae. No other mammal can eat food. Reindeer will cross the Arctic tundra and become the longest land migration of all animals. Other mammals have evolved different ways of long-distance travel: thousands of fruit bats gather in the Kasanka swamp in Zambia and gather in the sturdy trees in the canyon. Mammals adopt different strategies to find food. At night on the African prairie, the death toll caused by Lex the coyote, through pure weight, melted in the Arctic glaciers, and dozens of polar bears used the bodies of Arctic right whales. Improving the young of mammals is another important factor for success. Meerkats and social groups in the form of meerkats share the responsibility of taking care of children. The mother elephant who first came into contact with the African elephant needs the experience of the mother elephant group to get rid of her young elephant. The largest animal in the ocean is also a mammal. The waters near Tonga are not only breeding grounds for nurseries and humpback whales. A female leader is chasing her potential buyer because she is fighting for the dominant man behind her. Life on Location follows a humpback whale that has never been filmed before.