Life On Earth

Summary: This inspiring collection includes footage from the world's leading natural history filmmakers who spent years capturing the most incredible scenes ever filmed. Set includes a 56-page visual companion of spectacular photography. Life on Earth is a dramatic worldwide event, celebrating all creatures great and small, and the extraordinary habitats that sustain them"--amazon.com. "The definitive exploration of the adaptability and diversity of life on Earth, revealing the most spectacular and fascinating behaviors that living things have devised. From strange creatures to epic spectacles, including millions of fruit bats darkening the Zambian sky, each episode tells mind-blowing stories of survival with drama, humor and suspense. More than four years in the making, filmed over 3,000 days across every continent, this is life as no one has ever seen it before"--container insert."Tiny grizzly bear cubs emerge from their den in snow-covered mountains; the world's largest concentration of dolphins and sharks gather off the coast of South Africa; and polar bear families navigate their precarious way on ever-thinning ice. Witness the great summer melt of ice in the Artic and the massive annual plankton bloom in the northern Pacific Ocean. Each of the six programs features a different event set in one of the world's most iconic wildernesses"--container insert. "Journey from the highest peaks to the deepest oceans -- pole to pole across the Earth. State-of-the-art filming techniques and dramatic Cineflex aerial photography give you a glimpse of the natural world that will astound your eyes for hours. See mating rituals and hunting behaviors captured for the first time. It's an unparalleled look that only 70 camera operators, 200 locations, and over 2,000 days of filming can bring"--container insert. "We know less about the oceans than we do about the surface of the moon, yet the seas cover two-thirds of our world. Blue planet is a definitive exploration of our planet's oceans and reveals the sea and its inhabitants at their most fearsome and alluring. We travel with behemoths like the blue whale and the microscopic, including coral polyps, to experience the oceans as never before. It's a series that is both breathtaking and groundbreaking in scope. Episodes chronicle the mysteries of the deep, the intrigues of coastal sea mammals; investigate tidal and climatic influences; and depict the creatures and systems that revolve around our Blue planet"--container insert.

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