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The earth is home to more than 30 million different animals and plants every single one in its own fight for survival. From the makers of PLANET EARTH and narrated by global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, the epic television series LIFE is the definitive exploration of our planet s living things and their spectacular, bizarre and fascinating behaviors. More than four years in the making, with over 3,000 days of filming in the field by 70 camerapersons, LIFE spans every continent and every habitat. This episode will showcase the exhaustive and remarkable efforts by the LIFE filmmaking team to bring the breathtaking images of intimate animal and plant behavior to the screen. The latest in HD filmmaking techniques capture never-before-seen images while ensuring that natural behavior was not disturbed. Ingenious new cameras and filming platforms were invented for the series, including a yogi cam, which allowed a camera to track smoothly alongside migrating reindeer and elephants, and a flying camera that used intricate cable rigging to provide a butterfly-eye perspective of hundreds of thousands of Monarch butterflies in Mexico. EPISODES - Challenges of Life Challenges of Life provides an overview of the extraordinary strategies our planet s animals and plants have developed to stay alive as individuals and as species. In Kenya, three cheetah brothers have invented a new way of hunting: Rather than tackling small prey on their own, they have learned that by joining forces they can bring down big game such as ostriches. A pod of bottlenose dolphins in Florida has also made a breakthrough. To catch their fast-swimming prey, one dolphin creates a mud-ring by beating its tail in the soft silt as it swims in a circle. As the mud mushrooms in the water, the ring gets smaller and fish become trapped. Panicking, they jump out of the water right into the waiting dolphins mouths. In Brazil, brown-tufted capuchin monkeys demonstrate an extraordinary level of skill when cracking open the palm nuts they love to eat. They pick the nuts, strip them of their husks and leave them to dry. After a few weeks they transport them to a huge anvil-like rock and smash them with a harder hammer stone. It can take eight years for a capuchin to perfect the complex art of nut-smashing. In every animal s life there comes a time when its mind turns to breeding. The stalk-eyed fly has a mind-boggling technique: It sucks in air bubbles and blows them through its head to push its eyes out & on stalks! These are vital for winning females, because males with the widest eye span gets the most attention. Birds Birds have one feature that no other animal possesses: feathers. This allows them to solve life s challenges in radically different ways. The male spatule-tail hummingbird performs extraordinary aerial displays, using fast-beating wings and super-long iridescent tail feathers. The red-billed tropic bird uses its incredible agility t
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The earth is home to more than 30 million different animals and plants every single one in its own fight for survival. From the makers of PLANET EARTH and narrated by global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, the epic television series LIFE is the definitive exploration of our planet s living things and their spectacular, bizarre and fascinating behaviors. More than four years in the making, with over 3,000 days of filming in the field by 70 camerapersons, LIFE spans every continent and every habitat. This episode will showcase the exhaustive and remarkable efforts by the LIFE filmmaking team to bring the breathtaking images of intimate animal and plant behavior to the screen. The latest in HD filmmaking techniques capture never-before-seen images while ensuring that natural behavior was not disturbed. Ingenious new cameras and filming platforms were invented for the series, including a yogi cam, which allowed a camera to track smoothly alongside migrating reindeer and elephants, and a flying camera that used intricate cable rigging to provide a butterfly-eye perspective of hundreds of thousands of Monarch butterflies in Mexico. "Life" picks up beautifully where "Planet Earth" left off -- delivering a sumptuous, high-definition romp through astounding nature footage that quite simply defines the best Discovery Channel can be (and, alas, operates on a plateau its programmers seldom reach). - Brian Lowry, Variety "...spectacularly photographed survey of animals and plants." - Hal Boedeker, Orlando Sentinel EPISODES - Challenges of Life Challenges of Life provides an overview of the extraordinary strategies our planet s animals and plants have developed to stay alive as individuals and as species. In Kenya, three cheetah brothers have invented a new way of hunting: Rather than tackling small prey on their own, they have learned that by joining forces they can bring down big game such as ostriches. A pod of bottlenose dolphins in Florida has also made a breakthrough. To catch their fast-swimming prey, one dolphin creates a mud-ring by beating its tail in the soft silt as it swims in a circle. As the mud mushrooms in the water, the ring gets smaller and fish become trapped. Panicking, they jump out of the water right into the waiting dolphins mouths. In Brazil, brown-tufted capuchin monkeys demonstrate an extraordinary level of skill when cracking open the palm nuts they love to eat. They pick the nuts, strip them of their husks and leave them to dry. After a few weeks they transport them to a huge anvil-like rock and smash them with a harder hammer stone. It can take eight years for a capuchin to perfect the complex art of nut-smashing. In every animal s life there comes a time when its mind turns to breeding. The stalk-eyed fly has a mind-boggling technique: It sucks in air bubbles and blows them through its head to push its eyes out & on stalks! These are vital for winning females, because males with the Price $57.99
