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Wildlife on One: Aliens from Inner Space

BBC One
on BBC One London

Narrated by David Attenborough

Patrolling off-shore, powerful jet-propelled hunters cruise on deadly missions. Their intelligence is advanced. Their communication system is superb.

These 'extraterrestrials' are cephalopods - cuttlefish, squids and octopuses. Using their soft bodies they transmit pulsing colour patterns of staggering beauty that are much more than skin deep - they are a window on the living brain!

Yet there are difficulties in our understanding of these mysterious messages; they are in an alien tongue whose meaning scientists are only beginning to unravel. Can they speak to each other? Are they, perhaps, trying to speak to us?
BBC Bristol
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Photography:
Paul Atkins
Photography:
Mike Degruy
Producer:
Keenan Smart
Series Producer:
Peter Bale
Source: Radio Times

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