Nature's Great Events - BBC
Nature's Great Events was the BBC's latest wildlife spectacular, following the great wildlife spectacles driven by nature. Using state of the art filming technology, Nature's Great Events on BBC One captured the Earth's most dramatic and epic wildlife spectacles and the intimate stories of the animals caught up in them.
The large hardback, coffee-table style book runs to more than three hundred pages, full, as you would imagine, or glorious photos of the events in question. There are detailed break downs of many of the species involved, maps of the places involved, and details of some of the advanced techniques used to capture the amazing footage.
To buy this book, click Nature's Great Events
To buy the DVD, click Nature's Great Events - DVD
- The Great Migration - Following the millions of wildebeest and zebra as they make their endless, circular trek following the rains around East Africa.
- The Great Flood - Documenting the annual flood of the Okavango Delta and the changes it brings to the surrounding desert.
- The Great Melt - Watching life in the Arctic as the northen summer melts the great swathes of sea melt, and how that affects the polar bears, seals and whales that feed there.
- The Great Salmon Run - The story of an epic, one way journey doomed to end in death, yet bringing life. The salmon, who have grown at sea, struggle upstream in the rivers of their birth, in a heroic effort to avoid the bears, otters and eagles detemined to feast on them, to spawn and die.
- The Great Feast - The great plankton blooms off Alaska every year attract creatures from all around the Pacific, some of which travel for 10,000 kilometres to feed. Most spectacularly the humpbacks that swim here, often with their calves, that travel some 3000 miles to feast here, sometimes eating as much as 1.5 tonnes per day!
- The Great Tide - Whilst the migration of 1.5 million wildebeest is spectacular, the migration of billions (yes, billions) of pilchards up the Pacific Coast of Southern Africa dwarfs all other migrations. Shoals often reach 12 miles long by three miles wide, and there are many shoals. And each shoal provides a vast feast for the attendant whales, seals, sharks, gannets and humans that scoop them up by the million.
RRP £25.00 but can usualy be found for less online.
ISBN: 9781845334567
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