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The Living Planet

Episode 8: Sweet Fresh Water

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

David Attenborough follows the river Amazon from the Andes to the sea. The life in and around it changes as it flows on its four-thousand mile journey from cold torrents to a vast warm delta. There are similar changes in other rivers, producing such variety as torrent ducks, mayflies, hairy frogs, piranhas, giant otters, fishing owls and the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Show less

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