Posts Tagged ‘animals’
BBC HD Brings Nature into Your Living Room
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Life, the latest wildlife programme from the BBC is capturing the imagination of viewers. The programme is being shown on both BBC1 and BBC HD. The clarity of the images on BBC HD makes this wondrous television series fantastic.
Episodes
- Challenges of Life
- Reptiles and Amphibians
- Mammals
- Fish
- Birds
- Insects
- Hunters and Hunted
- Creatures of the Deep
- Plants
- Primates
The BBC is renowned for their nature documentaries and this one doesn’t disappoint. After each episode there is a short film on how they filmed the scenes. These shorts give the viewer a great insight into the difficulties of filming with these magnificent animals.
Once again the BBC has teamed up with the Open University who is providing support material to go with the series. All of the online material and information on how to order your free tree of life poster can be found here.
Tags: animals, BBC, Life, Nature, Television, TV, wildlife
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Future Tenants
Friday, February 29th, 2008
When humans decide to occupy a piece of land, we usually don’t leave it in its natural state. Instead, we either change it to better serve our own interests, we extract all the natural resources from it, or both. We create our own habitat-but what about the animals that lived on the land before us? Is the “habitat” that we create still a suitable place for them to call home when we are done with it? For some species, the answer is yes. Animals that prefer the same type of habitat that we do (open ground without a lot of trees) usually are not harmed by human expansion unless we see them as pests and start trying to exterminate them. What about animals that prefer forest? They have to retreat as we move forward, and eventually their numbers decrease because there is nowhere left for them to go. (more…)
Tags: animals, Environment, habitat, human
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