Secrets of Our Living Planet
Stunning high-quality photage following organisms at multiple levels of the food-chain, showing the intricate interconnectedness of life in various ecosystems.
- 2012-2012
- 1 season
- Documentary
Stunning high-quality photage following organisms at multiple levels of the food-chain, showing the intricate interconnectedness of life in various ecosystems.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
The Emerald Band
58 mins
Chris Packham travels to the world's great habitats to reveal how they actually work - despite the huge challenges that nature throws at them. With insight from recent scientific discoveries, Chris delves into complex and interdependent relationships to show why the termite needs the rhino, the shark needs the tiger and the lynx needs the caterpillar.
Episode 2
The Secret of the Savannah
59 mins
Chris Packham travels to the world's great habitats to reveal how they actually work - despite the huge challenges that nature throws at them. With insight from recent scientific discoveries, Chris delves into complex and interdependent relationships to show why the termite needs the rhino, the shark needs the tiger and the lynx needs the caterpillar.
Episode 3
The Magical Forest
59 mins
Chris Packham travels to the world's great habitats to reveal how they actually work - despite the huge challenges that nature throws at them. With insight from recent scientific discoveries, Chris delves into complex and interdependent relationships to show why the termite needs the rhino, the shark needs the tiger and the lynx needs the caterpillar.
Episode 4
Waterworlds
59 mins
Water isn't just essential for all life on earth, it's also the key medium in wetland ecosystems. South America's Paranal, the largest wet prairie, is home to giants like the jaguar, capibara, otter and cayman, yet none could survive without the waste recycling sludge on the river beds. The largest population of Bengal tiger lives in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, hunting deer and monkeys, none of which would survive without the crabs whose mud digging helps the trees survive. Coral reefs, like the Maldives, depend on symbiosis between algae and sponges. In the cold oceans, massive krill and algae are crucial for the food cycle and even CO2 absorption, while the weather there steers climate cycles all over the planet.
