BBC Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough 3/3: Survival

In this episode we met an epaulette shark that can walk, new species of coral living way below the mesophotic line, reefs grown on sunken vessels, voracious starfish that decimate the populations of corals and the scientists who rush to save the reef.

BBC Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough 2/3: Visitors

In this episode we had manta rays showing the unusual behavior, tiger sharks who act like an ocean vacuum cleaner nomming on anything dead.

BBC Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough 1/3: Builders

 

This is not the new documentary, it's from the 2015, but underwater environment somehow has the calming effect, that's why I decided to watch and post pictures of it.

In this episode we saw haw amazing mantis shrimp can be it not only dances to entice the female (I approve), but also it has 16 photo receptors. A human eye has 3. So imagine what kind of spectrum of the waves it perceives. I am instantly jealous.

Also, lots of colors here are SHINee color - so you know they reign superior.

Wild Karnataka (2019)

Narrated by sir David Attenborough.

Karnataka is the most abundant in life place in India. There lives 10% of world population of tigers (est. 400 individuals) if you must know.

It will be picture heavy. Featuring: birds, snakes and kitties (like jackal cats).

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 7/7: Africa

 

In this episode we have: a chimpanzee learning how to make tools, a group of five cheetahs devising a new strategy of hunting (using decoys, how smart!), an aardvark who can dig to six meters down, cichlid fish that use their mouths as a nursery (buccal incubation) - and cuckoo catfish that add their eggs so cichlids would care for them. The babies are ruthless - they eat all cichlid babies. 

Also, less than 8000 cheetahs left and two white rhinos females.

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 6/7: North America

In this episode: a hare faster than Canadian lynx, a road runner running after lizards, polar bears cooperating in lean summer months, alligators that can slow down their heartbeats to ONE per minute and shoals of fish called mullets.

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 5/7: Europe

In this episode we witnessed: a monkey baby kidnapping (a higher ranking female wanted a baby so she snatched herself a baby), a pack of wolves hunting and being chased by sheep-herding dogs (that in turn nommed on the red deer the wolves got), Iberian lynx being pretty and hamsters' fight for the best flowers at a cemetery.

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 1/7: Antarctica

 Finally we're back to a good nature documentary - informative, funny and well narrated.

TV Series opening 11: The Blue Planet

TV Series opening 9: Planet Earth 1 & 2

Two for the price of one this time. Probably one of the bests if not THE best nature documentary ever made.