l Introduction
Humans are the ultimate animal - the most successful species on the planet. From the frozen Arctic, to the foggy rainforest, from the island on the vast sea to the desert scorched by the scorching sun, human beings have found extraordinary ways to adapt to the environment and survive under the harshest conditions. In order to survive, humans are courageous and resourceful; learning how to live with other creatures, how to use them, and how to share natural spaces with them.
In total, Human Planet features eight inspiring stories, each episode about a place to live, revealing how its inhabitants have created surprising ways to deal with extremely adverse situations. Finally, the crew of Human Planet visits the "urban jungle" inhabited by humans and explores why the bond between humans and nature is of paramount importance here.
l Notes
Episode 1 Oceans-Into the Blue
Humans need to breathe air and therefore cannot survive in water. But humans have found a way to live underwater, and they can explore the colorful ocean. This episode will take you into the blue ocean and tell you some amazing stories of wisdom and bravery.
There is a "shark whisperer" in the Pacific who can communicate with sharks. A Brazilian fisherman works with dolphins to catch mullet. Brave Garcias are not afraid of death, they pick up barnacles on the rocks, 1000 kilograms can be sold for 200 pounds. In Indonesia, a great whaler caught a sperm whale with a harpoon in his home-made boat. The Bajao "Sea Gypsies" on the Sulu Sea live on the water all year round. If they land on land, they will have "land halo"! We dived into a dangerous world 40 meters underwater with the Paalin fishermen, who could breathe through a mesh tube attached to a diesel engine and then use a large net to catch the fish that came forward. This episode also sees that surfing originated from the ocean-loving Polynesians. In Borneo, a fisherman can dive to a depth of 20 meters with a harpoon.
Calicia, Northern Spain: Harvesting gooseneck barnacles using low tide
Indonesia's Lembata Island: Collective hunt for sperm whales
Laguna, Brazil: Working with dolphins, bottlenose dolphins collaborate to catch mullets that migrate back every May
Hawaii: Surfing, women who adore surfing
Papua New Guinea: The sorcerer who summoned sharks from the deep
Coral reefs between Borneo's Sulawesi Sea and the Philippines: The sea life of the Bajau Laut Bajau people
Episode 2 Deserts-Life in the Furnace
A person can survive for weeks without food, but only a few days without water. Water is an essential substance for life. Yet millions of people around the world live in arid deserts. This episode will show you the daunting challenges people face in finding water in the world's driest regions, and their clever ways to solve them.
In Mali, Mamadou had to navigate a sandstorm to drive his herd to a remote lake, but a herd of desert elephants got ahead of him. Can he get through the blockade of the elephants? Tubu women and children walked for weeks on end, navigating the Saharan dunes without getting lost. Young Shade has been walking in this sea of sand for three days, can she find the last oasis? At the height of the drought, we saw a wild and spectacular sight: Two thousand men flocked into Lake Andogo to fish for stranded fish in the dry river. When the rain hits the desert again, it's time to laugh, celebrate and express love. Niger's Wodabe men put on make-up, dance a glamorous courtship dance and compete in beauty pageants.
Mali, Africa: Using elephant herds to find water for cattle
Mali, Bandiagara Cliffs, Dogon Village, Africa: "Desert Fish Festival" is used to allow fish stranded in isolated pools to be taken away so that the water can be drunk and the fish fed to the family through the dry season
Mali, Eastern Tubu tribe in Bandiagara, Africa: finding a well in the desert
Gobi, Mongolia: Bactrian camels drink snow in February to guard against wolf attacks
Chile's Atacama Desert: There is no water here, and cactus flowers are food for wild camels in South America, so the morning fog is used to adhere cacti to obtain water
Ba'amar, Central Algeria, Sahara, Africa: Drilling wells for water and connecting pipes to the wells
Wodaabe people of Niger, West Africa: rainy season, courtship and social gatherings, men make up, dress up (colored clay for powder, egret bones for lip balm, desert vegetation for perfume) and dance, once selected by women, they can dissociate from the previous marriage relationship, generally choose three winners
Episode 3 Arctic-Life in the Deep Freeze
The Arctic is one of the harshest places on Earth: food is barely grown, months of darkness and sub-freezing temperatures all year round. However, there are four million inhabitants living here. This episode tells you the stories of these amazing inhabitants and how they survived in this icy landscape.
In the spring, Amos and Carl Frederick take their hounds across the sea ice as they prepare to catch a real sea monster - the Greenland shark! Inuit shell-pickers risking their lives to gather shellfish under the sea ice at low tide are in a race against time for the food. In Manitoba, the Churchill children embark on the world's most dangerous game of asking for candy: risking their lives to meet a deadly polar bear on the streets of their small town. Who will get that delicious candy?
Saattut, Inuit, Greenland: Greenland shark catch with dog, narwhal in June, eskimo kayak
Siorapaluk, Greenland: puffins are hunted, skinned and cured for bird meat
Kangiqsujjuaq, Northern Canada: In the spring, take advantage of the half hour of the tide to go into the ice cave to look for mussels
Arnoy Island, Northern Norway: Sami send reindeer across the Arnoy Strait in September
Hudson Bay, Churchill, Canada: Polar bears may intrude into town from September to winter
llulissat, Greenland: In winter, fifty-four days are dark, the day the sun comes out (January 31) sing hymns
Episode 4 Jungles - People of the Trees
Rainforests are home to more plant and animal species than any other region on the planet. However, rainforest life is not so easy for humans living in the rainforest. To survive in the rainforest, you need to have enough survival skills, wisdom and courage.
The Brazilian Matisse people made their own 4-meter-long blowpipes to quietly hunt monkeys at close range. Deep in the Congolese forests, brave Tate climbs trees with only vines and drives away angry swarms to collect honey for his family. Three children of Venezuela's Piero Indian tribe risked their lives to go deep into the jungle to capture tarantulas and roast them for lunch. In West Papua province, the Korowai tribe builds houses on 35-meter-high trees, demonstrating their superb construction skills. Most memorable, the film crew took part in a special aerial patrol mission in Brazil, looking for a mysterious tribe.
Brazil's Matis: Tree frog toxins infuse, improve concentration, hunt monkeys in the jungle
Venezuela tribe in Venezuela, South America: hunting giant tarantulas for food in the jungle
Awa Guaja Indians near the eastern Amazon: adoption of monkeys
Mount Hagen, New Guinea: The Sing Sing convention, where people decorate with bird of paradise feathers, is attended by hundreds of tribes nearby, who imitate the stripes on the bird and the dance of the males during courtship
The Bayaka tribe in the African Congo: drumming with river water, imitating the calls of birds in the jungle, climbing trees to collect honey
Jungle next to India and Myanmar: mahouts guide elephants to carry trees
Korowai people near Papua New Guinea: tree house
Episode 5 Mountains-Life in Thin Air
From lush forests to bare summits that make it almost breathless, the higher you climb in the mountains, the harder life gets. This episode explores how humans survive in unusual ways in the harsh natural environment at extremely high altitudes.
In the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, the large open areas are very bad for hunting animals. So the natives and the golden eagles formed an unexpected partnership, hunting for the natives. On the steep cliffs of Ethiopia's Semen Mountains, the camera crew joins a boy in a battle with a terrifying baboon. They were determined to plunder the family's meager crop. In the Himalayan country of Nepal, the roof of the world, the film crew saw an extraordinary funeral: a celestial burial. In a country where there is not much wood to burn for funerals, and where burying the dead is almost impossible, corpses are offered to vultures to feast on in ultimate reverence for nature.
Altai Mountains, Kazakhs: stealing eagles, training wild foxes
Rift Valley, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia, Getabit village: The village is on a cliff, a small amount of land is cultivated with straw, and baboons will snatch it
Indonesia, Ljen Crater: Gathering Sulphur
Yangoru Boiken Tribe, Papua New Guinea Island: Hunting Big Fruit Bats
Alpine town of Grindelwald: bombed to prevent avalanches
Himalayas, Doramba & Dho in Nepal
Tarap Village: Sky Burial
Episode 6 Grasslands-Roots of Power
The grasslands nourish the world. Over thousands of years, humans have learned how to grow crops in grasslands and domesticate the animals that live there. Our success has propelled the population to seven billion. But this episode shows us that even today, life in "Eden" isn't always good.
The film crew walked with the Dorobo people of Kenya, who were brave enough to try to scare a pack of hungry lions away from their freshly caught prey. The film crew galloped across the savannah with Mongolian riders, known as "people born in the saddle". The Maasai have built a perfect partnership with nature for generations, and their children must talk to birds! The Honey Wizard helps them find a sweet feast, but they must return the kindness.
Dorobo hunter in Kenya, Africa: stealing prey from lion's mouth
South Africa's Kalahari DesertJu/'hoansi
bushman: burn grass, lead out antelope, hunt antelope with poison arrows stained with beetle bodily fluids in the sand
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: Snake Catching
East African Maasai: Cooperate with honeybirds to help them find honey
Tanzania, Africa: Locust attacks, rice fields burn trees.
Suri tribe, southern Ethiopia, Africa: cattle are the common currency, tribal competition Donga to choose the guardian to guard the herd
Mongolian steppe: train horses, capture mares, get milk, make yogurt
Aussie cowboys: driving cattle with helicopters and motorcycles
Episode 7 Rivers (Rivers-Friend and Foe)
Rivers provide the most important things in life: fresh food and water. They often serve as natural highways and allow us to live in any environment on Earth. But rivers can also flood, freeze, or disappear entirely.
Sam Young, a Lao fisherman, walks the ropeway that is elevated by wires over the rapids of the Mekong River, the only way he must travel to and from work. The Samburu tribe has an unusual partnership with wild elephants as they search for water in the dry riverbeds of northern Kenya. Finally, the film crew introduces a father who must take his two children on a six-day hike along a frozen river, the most dangerous school in the world. And Ottawa's ice dam blasting, their best bet to keep the city.
Khone Falls, Mekong River, Southeast Asia: Rapids Fishing
Zanskar valley, Chadar River, Himalayas: "Big Shawl" - the hardest way to school in the world;
Ottawa, Bangladesh, Canada: blowing up ice dams and dredging river channels;
South American Amazon, Rio Brazil
Negro: Before the flood season in June, the turtle eggs were caught and buried in the nursery they belonged to. In March and April, the turtles were released on the day when the turtles broke their shells. flood season;
Africa Zambezi River, Victoria Falls: a world occupied by crocodiles and elephants;
Samburu people, northern Kenya, Africa, Milgis River: Follow the dung and footprints of elephants to find water;
The ancient city of Mali and Djene in Africa: mudstone buildings, mosques, river mud + straw = fermentation, used to paint mosques;
Northeastern India, Meghalaya State: Fig Tree Bridge;
Episode 8 Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle
The camera returns to the "jungle" created by human beings - the city. More than half of the world's population lives in cities. Humans have deliberately separated cities from nature, but nature is everywhere. From night-time blood-sucking bed bugs to swarms of rats in restaurants, there are plenty of animals and humans in cities. Not all animals that live in cities are annoying.
In the ancient city of Fez, Morocco, a tannery uses pigeon dung to soak raw leather. Modern Dubains still rely on falcons to hunt. A Bushno woman breastfeeds a stray deer outside Jaipur, India. Humans have realized that nature is the key to human survival. Some residents of Manhattan, USA, are raising bees on their roofs. In Masdar, UAE, British architect Norman Foster is building a zero-carbon, zero-waste city of the future. Is this the city of the future? Humans have begun to realize that only by protecting the natural environment can human beings thrive.
United Arab Emirates, Dubai: Falcons chase away pigeons
United States, Estes Park, Colorado: Drive away elk
India, Jaipur: Rhesus monkey steals things
Morocco, Fez: Pigeon poop tanning
Austin, Texas: 1.5 million free-tailed bats
India, Rajasthan, Sunders: Belief in gazelles is sacred, after breastfeeding, sent back to nature
UKalone: Kenyans scavenging
Masdar, Emirate of Abu Dhabi: a city powered by solar energy
l Short Comments
When we are in a high-rise office and cannot find snacks at hand due to hunger, a group of children in the tropical rain forest are grabbing giant spiders to satisfy their stomachs;
When we use water, electricity, natural gas and other resources recklessly at home, in the 20 minutes when there is only one rain a year in the Sahara Desert, a group of children are being baptized in the pouring rain, running and jumping with joy;
When we are still complaining that the monthly salary is not enough to buy a house and a car, fishermen in the Philippines risk their lives to subsidize their homes by diving into 40-meter-deep waters with simple air compressors;
When we used a crane to build a high-rise building with concrete and steel bars, the primitive tribes used their own hands to obtain materials on the spot to build a "castle on a tree";
Only when we understand where we are on the earth and the role we play will we not be arrogant and self-pity, but will be more serene and peacefully live our own lives.
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