DVD BBC Nature's Most Amazing Events (2009)

BBC Nature's Most Amazing Events (2009)

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00:00	Disc One: South Pacific Arctic	03:40	Ringed Seal basks on ice	05:45	Arctic Fox feeds on dead reindeer
08:00	Black Guillemot occupy frozen cliffs for nesting ledges in March	14:40	Narwhals swim through melting sea ice in June	18:40	Thick-billed Guillemots dive to hunt arctic cod and capelin, hold breath for nearly 2 minutes
22:00	Beluga Whale rub off old skin against pebbles in shallow sea	24:20	Arctic Fox catches nesting Fulmar	26:00	Thick-billed Guillemot chick nudged to take maiden flight, followed by parent
28:20	Some chicks land a long way from water, caught by Arctic Fox who buries larder	34:30	Narwhal hunt for arctic cod and squid in summer open water	35:00	Bowhead Whale
35:50	Walrus can eat 4,000 clams in 10-minute dive	40:30	2007 melts 400,000 square miles of ice	46:10	Pancake ice starts to form in autumn; frozen sea allows bears to walk on, but still too thin for
47:15	Polar Bear	49:00	Diaries: Quest for Ice Whales	1:00:00	The Great Salmon Run
1:06:00	British Columbia: largest expanse of temperate rain forest in world; abundance of pure fresh water	1:09:50	Grizzly Bear feeds on grass and sedges	1:10:00	Grizzly Bear eats clam
1:10:50	2,000 Gray Wolf in the Great Forest	1:14:00	Killer Whales eat a lot of salmon	1:14:10	Steller Sea Lion
1:14:30	Salmon Shark	1:15:00	Bald Eagle	1:16:00	Pink, Chum, Coho, Sockeye, Chinook Salmon mingle in estuaries
1:20:00	Salmon can swim up river 2000 miles	1:30:00	Salmon use their tails to tackle into current	1:30:20	Sockeye Salmon try to swim past bears
1:38:10	Sockeye Salmon change color when ready to breed	1:41:20	Bonaparte's Gull dives for salmon eggs	1:43:50	Atlantic salmon can return year after year to spawn
1:46:00	Decaying salmon fertilize forest: Sitka spruce, red cedar, western hemlock. 80% of nitrogen is from the sea.	1:49:00	Diaries	1:59:00	The Great Migrations
2:00:20	Eastern edge of Serengeti dominated by Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano (Mountain of God): ashes discourage growth of trees	2:01:20	Short-grass plains: lion hunts wildebeest	2:03:50	Wildebeest start 7-month journey
2:04:50	Ndutu pride try to survive in August, hunt warthog	2:11:00	Giraffes and	2:11:10	Impala feed on Acacia trees
2:11:20	Mice feed on seeds, hunted by	2:11:25	African Wildcat	2:16:00	Wildebeest cross Mara River and its crocodiles
2:17:30	Serval	2:20:30	Steenbok hunted by cheetah	2:22:45	Grant's Gazelle
2:30:00	December: rains bring wildebeest herd back to Ndutu pride after 7 months, give birth to 1/2 million calves	2:37:30	Common Eland Africa's largest antelope joins 1/2 million Thomson and Grant's gazelles, 200,000 zebra	2:42:00	Griffon Vulture and Spotted Hyenas steal cheetah kill
2:43:30	Blue Wildebeest start courtship battles in April	2:45:00	Red-Billed Quelea	2:47:20	Diaries
00:00	Disc Two: The Great Tide	02:30	Sardines (South American pilchard) winter journey: greatest "shoal" on Earth December in Agulhas Bank, eastern shores of South Africa	03:20	Common Dolphins
03:40	Cape Gannet	06:30	6 months later, winter cold currents sweep sardines up coast - Sardine Run	07:50	Cape Gannet colony 100,000 breeding pairs in summer: Bird Island, off Eastern Cape
10:30	Bryde's Whale also hunts sardines	20:40	Brown Fur Seal (Cape Fur Seal) hunts Gannet chicks on flippers - but only for fish in their stomachs	23:50	Cape Gannet chick follows common dolphin, who drive sardines to surface, but the seals are also on the hunt
29:00	Sardines cannot tolerate temperatures higher than 20 deg. C; more than 500 million fish swim towards disaster, 1/10 of population	31:00	5,000 dolphins converge on Waterfall Bluff; shoal stretches along coast for 15 miles, 100 million fish in this shoal	34:30	Dusky, copper, and ragged-tooth sharks encircle sardines in shallow water
37:30	Fishermen on shore land only 50 tonnes, 1/10 expected in a good year	39:40	Dolphins separate off a pocket of sardines, herd it to surface	40:00	Gannets and sharks join in feeding frenzy
43:00	Gannets dive down to 30 ft, swim down to 60 ft	44:30	Bryde's Whale takes in 10,000 fish in one mouthful	48:00	Life on the Run
59:00	The Great Flood	1:00:00	Desert lands of Kalahari, southern Africa, seasonal water turns into paradise of Okavango	1:04:30	Elephant skims dirty water from top
1:07:10	Catfish trapped in shrinking pool are easy prey for	1:08:00	African Fish Eagle	1:08:05	Marabou Stork
1:10:00	Termites take vegetation underground	1:10:30	Leopard tackles	1:10:40	Crested Porcupine
1:19:10	Red-Billed Quelea collect grass seeds: they are nomadic and follow water; one of most numerous birds on earth	1:20:20	Hippopotamus males fight for territory	1:23:15	Red-billed Oxpecker lick wounds and keep them open
1:25:00	Lions and elephants drink at water hole	1:30:00	Dragonflies appear after flood to breed	1:33:00	Common Reed Frog hides in lily
1:35:20	Red Lechwe first to take advantage of young shoots	1:42:00	Lions hunt buffalo and elephant calf	1:48:00	Diaries: Mission Impassable
2:00:00	The Great Feast Seas along Pacific coast of North America (Alaska and British Columbia)	2:01:45	Steller Sea Lion suckles young for up to 3 years due to severe winters	2:04:00	Humpback Whale mother and calf embark on journey from Hawaii.
2:05:00	Calf drinks 100 gallons of milk every day	2:05:30	Humpback Whale male breaching, but these whales do not feed here	2:09	Phytoplankton start to bloom in March, Alaska
2:10:00	Pacific Herring rise up to shallow coast in hundreds of millions to breed,	2:12:30	Herring spawn turns hundreds of miles of coastline white: 800 billion eggs in one bay	2:16:00	Zooplankton May, early summer in Alaska
2:19:00	Sea Lions hunted by Orcas	2:22:20	Sea Lion give birth	2:25:00	Storm sweeps pups to sea, stirs up nutrients to feed plankton
2:28:30	Humpbacks arrive in Alaska after 3000 miles	2:31:00	Ocean is alive in July	2:31:45	Barnacles
2:32:25	Jellyfish swarms in late summer	2:32:55	Plankton bloom radiates across north Pacific, provides earth with over 1/2 of oxygen; most intense where ocean streams through maze of coastal waterways	2:34:20	Sea Lions drive herring to surface, pick them off one by one
2:35:50	Pacific White-sided Dolphin	2:36:30	Murres are first to find fish at surface, can out-swim herring	2:37:25	Gulls turn up, can dive down only 1 meter
2:38:30	Humpback Whale gulps herring	2:41:00	Humpback Whales bubble-net As few as 100 humpbacks have learned to fish like this	2:47:00	Diaries: Swallowed by a Whale

03:40 Ringed Seal	05:45 Arctic Fox	08:00 Black Guillemot
14:40 Narwhals	18:40 Thick-billed Guillemots	22:00 Beluga Whale
26:00 Thick-billed Guillemot chick	28:20 Arctic Fox	35:00 Bowhead Whale
35:50 Walrus	47:15 Polar Bear	1:09:50 Grizzly Bear
1:10:00 Grizzly Bear	1:10:50 Gray Wolf	1:14:10 Steller Sea Lion
1:14:30 Salmon Shark	1:15:00 Bald Eagle	1:20:00 Salmon
1:30:20 Sockeye Salmon	1:38:10 Sockeye Salmon	1:41:20 Bonaparte's Gull
2:11:10 Impala	2:11:25 African Wildcat	2:17:30 Serval
2:20:30 Steenbok	2:22:45 Grant's Gazelle	2:37:30 Common Eland
2:42:00 Griffon Vulture	2:43:30 Blue Wildebeest	2:45:00 Red-Billed Quelea
02:30 Sardines	03:20 Common Dolphins	03:40 Cape Gannet
07:50 Cape Gannet colony	10:30 Bryde's Whale	20:40 Brown Fur Seal
23:50 Cape Gannet chick	40:00 Gannets	43:00 Gannets dive
1:04:30 Elephant	1:08:00 African Fish Eagle	1:08:05 Marabou Stork
1:10:00 Termites	1:10:30 Leopard	1:10:40 Crested Porcupine
1:19:10 Red-Billed Quelea	1:20:20 Hippopotamus males	1:23:15 Red-billed Oxpecker
1:30:00 Dragonflies	1:33:00 Common Reed Frog	1:35:20 Red Lechwe
2:01:45 Steller Sea Lion	2:04:00 Humpback Whale mother and calf	2:05:30 Humpback Whale male
2:09 Phytoplankton	2:10:00 Pacific Herring	2:12:30 Herring spawn
2:16:00 Zooplankton	2:31:45 Barnacles	2:32:55 Plankton bloom
2:35:50 Pacific White-sided Dolphin	2:38:30 Humpback Whale gulps herring	2:41:00 Humpback Whales bubble-net


Index	Oct 14, 2011	Peter Chen 2.0