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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 4

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 17, 2019 / By HDclump

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 4: Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth. DOWNLOAD Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth. In the north of this island continent is the Daintree, one of the world’s oldest tropical forests. It’s home to the most dangerous bird on earth – the cassowary. A dinosaur-like […]

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 3

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 10, 2019 / By HDclump

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 3: South America – the most species-rich continent on earth. From the bone-dry deserts of the Atacama, where penguins weave their way through a minefield of snapping sea lions, to the lush cloud forests of the Andes, where Andean bears scale 30-metre trees in search of elusive fruits, South America is full of the unusual and ingenious. In the far south of the continent, predators prowl the jagged Patagonian landscape. Underneath vertical spires of rock, a mother puma must draw on all her experience and strength to bring down a formidable prey.

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Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 3

Travel, Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 5, 2019 / By HDclump

Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 3: Paul Murton begins his Grand Tour with a chilly swim across Loch Ba, high on Rannoch Moor, struggles against the elements while trainspotting and meets some veteran Tunnel Tigers – men who tunnelled deep inside the Grampians, diverting water to hydroelectric schemes. Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 3 Loch Ba Loch Bà is a shallow irregular shaped freshwater loch on Rannoch Moor, Argyll and Bute, in the Scottish West Highlands, within the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about 25 km east-south-east of Glen Coe, and 20 km

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 2

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 3, 2019 / By HDclump

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 2: Asia is the largest and most extreme continent on our planet, stretching from the Arctic Circle in the north to the tropical forests on the equator. The animals here face the hottest deserts, tallest jungles and highest mountains found anywhere on Earth. But the continent has not always looked like this. These extreme worlds were created when India collided with the rest of Asia 30 million years ago, shaping the continent as we know it today. Animals here have adapted to the extreme environments in almost unbelievable ways. Seven Worlds

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Autumnwatch episode 4 2019

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 2, 2019 / By HDclump

Autumnwatch episode 4 2019: Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams end their week-long adventure in the Cairngorms. Tonight they look at the autumns of the future and discover encouraging news about Scottish wildcats. Gillian shares her amazing encounter with an 8ft blue shark, and we update on Cairngorms Connect – Britain’s Great Landscape restoration project. Autumnwatch episode 4 2019 Scottish wildcat The Scottish wildcat is a European wildcat population in Scotland. This population is estimated to comprise between 1,000 and 4,000 individuals, of which about 400 cats are thought to meet the morphological

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Autumnwatch episode 3 2019

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / November 1, 2019 / By HDclump

Autumnwatch episode 3 2019: Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams return with another hour-long live programme, live from the Cairngorms National Park. It is Halloween so time to reveal the wild secrets of Troll Mountain on the Island of Rum. Chris reveals the surprising science inside an antler and the team go hunting for Britain’s biggest spider. Autumnwatch episode 3 2019 Rùm (/rʌm/ (About this soundlisten); Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [rˠuːm]), a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber,

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Metamorphosis – The Science of Change

Science, Nature / 2 minutes of reading / October 31, 2019 / By HDclump

Metamorphosis – The Science of Change: Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick, the amazing transformation of one creature into a totally different being: one life, two bodies. From Ovid and Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost preprogrammed into our imagination. But is the scientific fact of metamorphosis just as strange as fiction or… even stranger? Film-maker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis. How does it happen and why? And might it even, in some way, happen to us? Metamorphosis

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Autumnwatch episode 2 2019

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / October 31, 2019 / By HDclump

Autumnwatch episode 2 2019: Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams are live from the Cairngorms National Park, where overnight events have already created dramas. Tonight the team look at how this year’s seasonal changes have shaped autumn 2019. Michaela embarks on a wild goose chase and the camera team are on a mission to find a deer rut deep in the Abernethy forest. Autumnwatch episode 2 2019 Cairngorms National Park is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament,

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Autumnwatch episode 1 2019

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / October 30, 2019 / By HDclump

Autumnwatch episode 1 2019: It’s Halloween week and Autumnwatch is back – launching a week of special 60-minute programmes celebrating all the very best of our UK wildlife. Broadcasting live from the Dell of Abernethy in the heart of the Cairngorms, Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams profile this stunning wilderness in its most technicolour season, finding out what autumn means for the iconic wildlife and the animals that live here. In the first programme, they explain exactly what autumn is and how it came to be. Tonight astronaut Tim Peake explains how autumn was

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 1

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / October 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 1 : Antarctica – a land of survivors enduring the most hostile conditions on earth. 98 per cent of the mainland is covered by ice on which virtually nothing can live. Even the sea freezes over, but the Weddell seal manages to survive here by keeping its breathing holes open by using its teeth to grind away the ice. Below the sea ice, conditions have been stable for millennia. Life has flourished and diversified. Starfish, sea spiders and three million predatory worms carpet the ocean floor, and sea anemones feast on ocean

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Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 2

Travel, Nature / 3 minutes of reading / October 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 2: Paul travels from Loch Gairloch to Loch Maree, a grand tour that includes meeting the king and queen of Islonia, matching a medieval feat of archery, diving on a wartime wreck in Loch Ewe and finding himself short-changed at the money tree on an island in Loch Maree. Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs episode 2 Loch Gairloch Loch Gairloch is a sea loch on the North West coast of Highland, Scotland. In Scottish Gaelic it is an Geàrr Loch meaning ‘the short loch’. Around 6 miles (9.7 km) long by

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Uncharted Amazon

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / October 6, 2019 / By HDclump

Uncharted Amazon: deep in the jungles of Peru, a silky anteater is fighting to stay awake and a mother hummingbird is struggling to raise her chick. As this documentary reveals, life in his incredible part of the planet faces changing conditions. The Amazon rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km2, of which 5,500,000 km2 are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. Uncharted

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