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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051251428
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 250 minutes
Sales Rank: 2716
Studio: BBC Warner
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Product Description:
David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life never normally seen yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants -- swarming antler moths desert locusts and a mountain of cockroaches -- up close and personal. The bizarre and the beautiful are represented and their habits lifestyles and characteristics explained in David Attenborough's inimitable style. Though small these creatures are as ferocious as any seen before.Running Time: 250 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 794051251428 Manufacturer No: E2514
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By getting up close and personal with Life in the Undergrowth, this extraordinary BBC series sets a new standard of excellence in wildlife cinematography. Hosted by veteran nature expert David Attenborough and utilizing the latest advances in macrophotography, the five-part series is dedicated to bugs of all shapes and sizes, from microscopic gnats to cave-dwelling millipedes so large they can capture bats in mid-flight and feast for hours thereafter! The patience involved in filming such previously unseen marvels must have been grueling (as confirmed by producer Mike Salisbury in a splendid bonus interview), but the results are nothing less than astonishing, with a parade of sequences so impressive that even insect-haters will pause in amazement. With an emphasis on reproduction and mating behaviors, each program focuses on a different, generalized group of creatures, many of them never filmed before, so that lay-persons and entomologists will be equally enlightened by discoveries made in the process of filming.
As always, Attenborough serves as an expert witness, cordial, fearless, and quintessentially British as he explains what we're seeing, from the nocturnal fluorescence of scorpions (glowing at night in ultraviolet light, they perform a mating dance playfully described as 'a nuptial pas de deux') to the mysterious, 17-year life cycle of the cicada. Throughout, we see everything, both frightening and beautiful, from an intimate, bug's-eye view, in detail so vividly colorful that you'll never view the insect world in quite the same way again. (Likewise for the diverse variety of critters on view in episode 3: 'The Silk Spinners,' which according to Salisbury is capable of curing arachnophobes from their irrational fear of spiders.) Just when you think Life in the Undergrowth couldn't get any more fascinating, it does: episode 4, 'Intimate Relations,' shows how many insects symbiotically depend on other species for food, shelter, or completion of their reproductive cycles, and episode 5, 'Supersocieties,' focuses on the social complexities of insect colonists like ants and termites. Enough to give you the creeps for days, you say? Think again, for after seeing Life in the Undergrowth (a perfect companion piece to the Nova episode 'The Unknown World'), you may find yourself in the garden, on your knees, eager for a better look at the countless millions of tiny creatures that surround us every day. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Nature dvd
This is a great dvd for those kids interested in knowing how the insect world works.....just wonderfull..great filming..
Rating: - Informative and Entertaining
If you've yet to experience the world through Sir David Attenborough's singular perspective I suggest you purchase this collection. Truly informative and innovative. Don't waste your money on meaningless and crudely made productions (i.e. I cannot name any because it would not be nice...) for I assure you that this one delivers.
Rating: - Astonishing even if you know a lot about biology
Apart from being exquisitely filmed and packed with fascinating content, this series amazed me with its ability to bring to light bizarre and unusual species and their behaviors. For instance, the third episode is on silk spinners, but it doesn't even mention the silk moths because it has so much to say about cave-dwelling silk spinning fluorescent predatory invertebrates and unusual spiders that hunt in highly specialized ways or even poach prey from other spiders. Seeing nature's complexity and beauty revealed in such detail filled me with such awe it was literally a spiritual experience.
Rating: - Beautiful
The filming of this miniature world is perfectly done
Narrated my David Attenborough is as always hypnotising
And incredible look in Large empires of the insect world
No expense was spared on the making
I have bought it to add too my collection which includes
Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Living Planet, Life in the Freezer
A must DVD to own for nature lovers
Thanks
Buddha
Rating: - what beauty!
I am so happy with this purchase.It is a feast for the eyes,I loved micro cosmos,another film about insects.
I got 5 hours of veiwing enjoyment,and will watch it again this winter.
I learned alot about cicadas,and spiders....yeeks!My sister in law lives in Australia,and told me about certain spiders,this series describes her stories to a "T".
Mr.Attenborough is a terrific host,his enthusiasm shows in this series.
If you like insects,great photography,and learning interesting facts about symbiotic relationships,you will be happy with this set of 2 cd's.
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