Stories from the Planet

Rebeka 2022-03-21 09:02:09

A god-like documentary. I think it is because of watching the shooting footage that people pay the highest respect to these photographers and directors who risked their lives to shoot with lofty professional ideals. I also watched "Our Planet" narrated by David Attenborough. I really love the voice of the narrator. The first episode of the island filmed the penguins of Madagascar. A group of people came to the island where the penguins lived, experienced high winds and waves, extreme weather, and let the equipment get on the boat before leaving the island. After watching the tidbits, I feel more distressed for those penguins who were battered and bruised by the waves on the rocks. However, this is also the fate of penguins. Choosing this safe place without natural enemies to breed offspring is bound to pay the corresponding price.

Some of the most impressive shots: the battle between snakes and lizards, it's extremely exciting! Red crabs migrate, volcanoes erupt lava to form islands. The second episode of the mountain range is to walk on the high mountains and cliffs to avoid natural enemies when breeding offspring. This skill for survival and reproduction is really awe-inspiring and admirable.

The solitary animal snow leopard living in the Himalayas, snow leopard Mama guards snow leopard cubs, and maintains the life of cubs under the claws of male snow leopards during the estrus period, natural motherhood, thinking that women are inherently weak, and mothers are strong.

In the golden eagles in the Alps, the photographer hired professional paragliders in order to photograph the living environment of the golden eagles, and only managed to capture some pictures after several times of gliding on the snow-capped mountains.

Snow mountain avalanches, when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent. The brown bear went out to the mountains to look for food after hibernating. When spring came, it was really cute to rub against the number of people in the mountains and to dance the pole dance, and the supplies were really sao, haha.

The diamond dust in the Rocky Mountains at minus 65 degrees Celsius is beautiful! Bobtail cat plunged into the snow in the snow, never thought that the cat was so cute.

When the flamingos stepped on stilts on the ice and danced a strange courtship dance like a military parade, it turned out that flamingos symbolized love, which is a beautiful meaning. After a month of jumping, all the flamingos were magically paired successfully, and while enduring the high temperature, they also avoided natural enemies for subsequent reproduction.

The third episode of the jungle paradise is very crowded, especially in the resource-rich places like the jungle, where there is a life-and-death struggle every day for the survival space. The tail is equivalent to the fifth-hand climber spider monkey, the lizard that flies to avoid damage, and the knife-billed hummingbird whose mouth is longer than its body in order to eat special nectar. The rain in the jungle is also beautiful!

The jaguar killed the caiman alone, and the duel between the two kings was quite exciting. There are also animal camouflages, small glass frogs with transparent bodies, geckos disguised as lively lichens, and various glowing fungi, beetles, beetles, etc. in the jungle. When night falls, it is like a fairy tale world, beautiful to suffocate . There is also the courtship dance of the male bird of paradise, which is cheerful and free.

Episode 4 After a long period of drought (about a year), the desert brought hope for life to the desert. Creatures living in the desert, such as African lions and sword antelopes, began to smell the breath of water and carried out a great animal migration. , In the process, the show of the strong eating the weak is staged every day, which is thrilling for this group of animals.

The Peruvian desert began to grow tender grass after a heavy rain, and at this time a million-scale army was born. I have never seen what a real locust plague looks like before, and wherever these super locust armies go, the grass is endless, from crawling to growing wings, it can be described as thrilling.

In order to compete for the water source, the struggle between various creatures, in order to let the young chicks drink the water, the more dangerous the place closer to the water source. Killing scorpions and long-eared bats, the food chain between scorpions, geckos, and chameleons, marvel at the existence of such a rich food chain even in the extreme water shortage and barrenness of the desert.

Episode 5: Due to the uneven and unstable precipitation, the grasslands where forests can't grow and can only grow grasses, the food chain is also very rich. Eurasian steppe, buffalo, elephant, rhino, leopard, tiger, species rich.

Leaf cutter ants, a tribe can cut several meals a day, an astonishing amount. The love-hate relationship between the magnetite termite and the anteater. The fires on the grasslands are so-called wildfires that can't be burnt out, and the spring breeze blows again. In extreme weather, bison acts as the snow shovel officer on the grass, shoveling five tons of snow a day to eat the hay needed for the body's energy.

Episode 6 The city is revered in India as Hanuman's langur, and this way of coexisting with humans allows langurs to be well-fed and never worry about going hungry. The miraculous spectacle performed by the New York Peregrine Falcon is staged over New York at dusk. Records of leopards hunting piglets in Mumbai, India, and rhesus monkeys blatantly looting food on the streets.

The pigeon-eating catfish, the introduction of exotic species makes the pigeons living in this land need to guard against fish that suddenly jump up in the water. Due to the impact of human activities, where should wild animals go. Singapore is a model for how people should learn. There is no winner after the shooting. I hope that human beings can finally find a way to live in harmony with wild animals for mutual benefit and win-win results.

Some thoughts: When shooting the puffer fish in "Hong Yilin", the film crew entered the jungle by boat, encountered heavy rain, and a group of people were thoroughly soaked.

When filming locusts, in order to capture a complete story line of the locusts from larvae to developing wings to devour the entire grassland, the entire BBC camera crew and experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization were in Madagascar. Due to too much rain, they sailed on the road. , and the super locust swarm could not be found for a long time. A photographer brother said, "A powerful team composed of members of the United Nations and the BBC crew was actually trapped in the swamp", haha, it's really excellent, and these photographers are all He looks so handsome, he has a face. But when they finally saw with the help of locust experts that the super locust swarm was the kind of light in the eyes that was more attractive than anything, it was a vision that finally came true, and then the film crew began to dance happily in the locust swarm , like a kid who got his favorite candy.

When shooting grasslands, because there are too many large and dangerous animals, such as buffalo, rhinoceros, tigers, etc., they all carry guns with them and shoot with their lives. The tools used are also various, mainly trigger cameras. When they installed hundreds of camera brackets in the grass, they found that they were attacked and damaged to be unusable the next day. Then they installed surveillance cameras to shoot who was the initiator. A famous photographer said happily after seeing the evil deeds of the elephants, "I knew the elephants also had a share", hahaha.

When shooting the city, the langurs and rhesus monkeys in India are too naughty, and the streets are crowded. The photographer said, "I prefer to shoot in the jungle than the city." Shooting wild animals in the city is not easy. For this, they used rigging, which allowed the camera to slide and film all the activities of the langurs on the roof. There are also shooting leopards hunting wild boars, using thermal imaging cameras, and a variety of tools, photographers really love these, loyal to their profession, respectable!

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  • Zander 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    An almost perfect nature documentary, with multiple classic scenes and extra points for the soundtrack. Nature deserves such good care, thanks to the BBC. I'll have to take my baby to watch it again.

  • Carol 2022-03-23 09:02:08

    Amazed all the way! You should watch more of these movies regularly to remind yourself how tiny human beings are just a tiny part of the world. Don’t always magnify your trivial joys and sorrows, and give a middle finger to the one-star SBs , you cow, only you cow, there is no cow in the world, one day let the BBC come to film you a "On the Survival and Protection of Rare and Endangered SB"