Nature's Great Events

Nature's Great Events: The Great Feast

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Nature's Great Events

The Great Feast

Season 1 | Episode 6 | ONE | September 16, 2018

Science

Earth and environment

Classification: Parental Guidance

Every summer in the seas off Alaska, humpback whales, sea lions and killer whales depend on an explosion of plant life; the plankton bloom. But will these animals survive to enjoy the great feast?

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Every summer in the seas off Alaska, humpback whales, sea lions and killer whales depend on an explosion of plant life; the plankton bloom. But will these animals survive to enjoy the great feast?

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In the intense heat of the northern Kalahari, at the peak of the dry season when water is scarce, herds of elephants trek towards a life-saving event, while prides of lions and marooned hippos fight to survive around the last remaining waterholes. Their fortunes change dramatically with the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta, turning thousands of desert miles into a maze of lagoons, islands and swamps.

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As winter arrives along South Africa's east coast, the inshore waters cool, drawing billions of sardines northwards. The sardine run is the world's largest spectacle, attracting the planet's greatest concentration of predators in any one time - an awe-inspiring array of ocean hunters.

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Get breathtakingly close to the planet's six most spectacular natural events and the powerful wildlife stories behind them. Narrated by David Attenborough, Nature's Great Events presents wildlife spectacles of epic proportions as well as more intimate, rarely seen moments. From the frozen Arctic wastelands to the blazing heat of the African plains, from the flooded Amazon forests to the caves of South-East Asia, each episode reveals the greatest sights, sounds and dramas of the animal world.

Nature's Great Events: The Great Melt

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The return of the Pacific salmon every year to the rivers from which they were born, is one of the greatest natural events on the planet. More than half a billion salmon travel up to 20,000 miles to return to the exact patch of gravel in the river from which they were born, to spawn and die. Using high speed cameras and specially designed digital underwater kits, Nature's Great Events amazingly capture the salmon swimming upstream and against powerful torrents.

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