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Life in the Undergrowth: Episode 3: The Silk Spinners

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Episode 3: The Silk Spinners

The Silk Spinners

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David Attenborough looks at the many uses of silk in the insect world.

David Attenborough investigates the power of silk, the secret weapon of the undergrowth, and looks at its many uses in the insect world.

David Attenborough looks at silk, the secret weapon of the undergrowth, with many insects using it in an amazing variety of ways. Spiders are the ultimate silk spinners though, catching their prey by throwing silken nets and 'bungee jumping' on ropes of silk. Wolf spiders spin delicate capsules to carry their eggs, male spiders strum desperate serenades, and baby spiders float up into the air on strands of silk.

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David Attenborough reveals the amazing stories behind the tiny lives of invertebrates.

David Attenborough reveals the amazing stories behind the tiny lives of invertebrates, exploring their incredible miniature world with ground-breaking camerawork and technology.

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Weird Nature: Episode 3: Bizarre Breeding

Episode 3: Bizarre Breeding

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Bizarre Breeding

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Series exploring strange behaviour in the animal kingdom focuses on breeding rituals.

Series exploring strange behaviour in the animal kingdom focuses on breeding rituals, from dancing scorpions to mice that mate themselves to death.

Discover dancing scorpions, courting birds that give trinkets as gifts, mice that mate themselves to death and a mantis that eats its partner in an exploration of strange behaviour in nature's bizarre breeding rituals. 

Meet frogs that rear their young under their skin, fish that leap from the water to lay eggs on leaves and a bullfrog father that becomes lifeguard to his offspring. There are fish that change sex, others that bubble-wrap their young, male hamsters that act as midwives and even a male that becomes pregnant. And, in this weird world, discover a shrew that creates a living daisy chain of its own young.

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Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom.

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