Two Hours of Amazing Animal Moments | 4K UHD | BBC Earth

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Birds and animals in various habitats face unique challenges and develop strategies for survival, including learning to fly, hunting for food, avoiding predators, and protecting their young. These creatures adapt to their environments by utilizing their natural instincts and abilities to overcome obstacles and ensure their survival.

Insights

  • Fledgling turns at the atoll face the dual challenge of learning to fly and catch food for survival, utilizing the shallow lagoon as a training ground while contending with giant treales attracted by prey abundance.
  • Urban pigeons must adapt to avoid Wells catfish, a new predator introduced 40 years ago, showcasing the struggle of experienced hunter pigeons against the catfish's unique hunting strategy using barbels due to its poor eyesight.

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Recent questions

  • How do fledgling turns learn to fly?

    By using a shallow lagoon as a training ground, fledgling turns practice flying skills. They vary in age, with advanced chicks taking to the air while others are still learning.

  • How do poison dart frog fathers care for their tadpoles?

    Poison dart frog fathers raise their tadpoles in individual pools of water, ensuring their survival by remembering the location of each tadpole.

  • What is the hunting strategy of the Wells catfish?

    The Wells catfish, a predator introduced 40 years ago, uses barbels to sense prey movements due to poor eyesight, developing a new hunting strategy for a bottom-dwelling fish.

  • How do red flying foxes drink water?

    Red flying foxes drink by swooping low to wet their bellies while flying, then return to roosts to suck out water, utilizing their large wingspan for efficient hydration.

  • How do lions like Charm and Sienna hunt wilderbeest?

    Lions like Charm and Sienna struggle to hunt wilderbeest, facing dangers from other predators while providing food and protection for their cubs, highlighting the challenges of survival in the wild.

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Summary

00:00

Birds and animals thrive on remote atoll.

  • Over half a million turns gather on a remote atoll in the Indian Ocean during the dry season.
  • The turns' chicks, still in dark juvenile plumage, vary in age.
  • Advanced chicks take to the air, while others are still learning to fly.
  • Fledglings use a shallow lagoon at the atoll as a training ground.
  • Giant treales, attracted by prey abundance, join the turns at the atoll.
  • Fledglings must learn to catch food for survival.
  • Poison dart frog fathers raise their tadpoles in individual pools of water.
  • Fathers must remember the location of each tadpole to ensure their survival.
  • Pangolins use their keen sense of smell to collect ants and termites for food.
  • Arvarks, with powerful digging abilities, consume up to 50,000 termites daily for sustenance.

54:11

Urban pigeons face new predator: catfish.

  • Pigeons bathe to clean their flight feathers from city dust and cool down, but face a predator, the Wells catfish, introduced 40 years ago, which has decimated local fish stocks and developed a taste for pigeons.
  • The catfish, with poor eyesight, uses barbels to sense prey movements, a new hunting strategy for a bottom-dwelling fish.
  • Pigeons in the city must now learn to avoid the catfish, a challenge for the experienced hunter pigeon.
  • A red flying fox, with ancestors traveling from Asia to Australia, rests by hanging upside down in trees due to its large wingspan.
  • Bats drink by swooping low to wet their bellies while flying, returning to roosts to suck out water.
  • Crocodiles, survivors from Australia's prehistoric past, lurk every 2 meters along the river where bats drink.
  • In the Great American deserts, the Road Runner, built for ground life, faces the challenge of hunting in extreme heat.
  • A mother black bear takes her cubs to the seaside for the first time, hunting crabs for food.
  • A male bear guards precious eggs, facing threats from wasps specialized in hunting frog eggs.
  • Lions, like Charm and Sienna, struggle to hunt wilderbeest, with cubs needing food and protection, facing dangers from other predators.

01:41:41

Parental protection and dominance battles in nature.

  • A pair of cranes protect their chick from a deer intrusion, using their beaks to maintain distance.
  • An exhausted bull elephant seal guards his territory, losing 10 kilos a day, in a battle for dominance.
  • Female cobod die undergo a transformation into males, challenging the old male for dominance based on head size.
  • Puffins must endure long fishing trips to feed their chick, facing challenges from predators like Arctic skewers.
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