Frogs Race For Love | Planet Earth III | BBC Earth
There’s only one thing for it… ..wrestling. A male common frog in the French Alps. He has spent all winter hibernating under the ice. But now it’s time to wake up. Being cold-blooded, he needs the sun to warm his body. But once it sets in a few hours’ time, he could freeze to death. […]
Harrowing Ocean Encounter with Baby Whale | Bad Natured | BBC Earth
SMASS expert: That puts it as a juvenile, probably a year or so old, maybe just over a year old I would think. last year’s calf I’m guessing, so you know, adults are pretty much three times that length. a newborn would be about four and a half meters so thats, thats a calf from […]
The Bartering Monkeys of Bali | Planet Earth III | BBC Earth
These long-tailed macaques live in Bali. Every morning, the troop heads for a building in the centre of their territory. Tourists come here every day in crowds. So the temple grounds are full of opportunities, if you know where to look. There is a constant supply of hats and sunglasses. But this harvest is not […]
Shocking Young Tiger Cub’s First Kill | Bad Natured | BBC Earth
The whole silence of the entire forest was just broken. This is not usually how a tiger makes a kill. My name is Shivang Mehta I’m a nature and wildlife photographer based out of India. I’ve been spending the last two decades documenting wild cards and other species of my country. This encounter happened in […]
Cobra vs Toad | Planet Earth III | BBC Earth
Here in India, this cobra is heading directly for a village. It has detected the scent of prey. Nearly two metres long, it has enough venom in a single bite to kill 10 people. And when they are hunting, there is no place they won’t go. A toad. Each tip of its forked tongue collects […]
Hungry Polar Bear Ambushes Seal | 4K UHD | The Hunt | BBC Earth
At this time of year. Polar bears on average succeed only once in 20 hunts. If the hunter is skinny like this one, that may not be often enough. All she can do is keep trying. To prevent her scent betraying her. She makes a wide sweep to get downwind of the seal. Getting close. […]
Stingray Ambushes Army Of Crabs | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
The struggle to survive in our green seas can have far-reaching consequences. Once a year, one particular meadow in Australia is transformed. Around the first full moon of winter, an army materialises. Spider crabs. For the past year, they’ve been feeding in deeper waters. Now, they march across the seagrass plains. Hundreds of thousands of […]
Puffin Hunts Fish To Feed Puffling | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
And wave power creates towering fortresses like these cliffs in the Arctic, home to tens of thousands of breeding seabirds. The faces of the cliffs are accessible only from the air and have plenty of nooks and crannies for those that can get there. But to feed, seabirds must still master the ocean world beyond. […]
Amazing Clownfish Teamwork | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
Out here on the sand flats, there is safe accommodation for some. The family of saddleback clownfish have found an excellent home. The tentacles of this carpet anemone can kill, but the clownfish are immune to the poison, so they can shelter from danger. In return, the fish keep the anemone clean of debris. As […]
What Lurks in the Midnight Zone? | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
A kilometre from the surface, beyond the reach of the sun, a giant black void larger than all the rest of the world’s habitats combined. There’s life here. But not as we know it. Alien-like creatures produce dazzling displays of light. Nearly all animals need to attract mates and repel predators. This language of light […]