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The Living Planet: Episode 2: The Frozen World

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Episode 2: The Frozen World

The Frozen World

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David Attenborough explores the ways animals adapt to survive in regions of snow and ice.

From the mountains of Africa to the glaciers of Antarctica and the Arctic, David Attenborough explores the ways animals adapt to survive in regions of snow and ice.

From the mountains of Africa and the Americas to the glaciers of Antarctica and the Arctic, David Attenborough explores the ways animals and plants survive in the realms of ice and snow. On Mount Kenya in Africa, plants have many different ways of coping with extreme conditions. Groundsel and abelias grow to many times their usual size. In Antarctica, which is one of the coldest, driest places on earth, primitive life also persists.

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David Attenborough examines how animals and plants adapt to their surroundings.

David Attenborough examines the ways in which animals and plants adapt to their surroundings.

The Living Planet: Episode 3: The Northern Forests

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Episode 3: The Northern Forests

The Northern Forests

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David Attenborough explores the largest forest in the world.

From the Arctic to the southern USA stretches the largest forest in the world. David Attenborough roams from north to south through this spectacular woodland.

Natural history documentary series, written and presented by David Attenborough, looking at the ecology of the Earth in its present day form. A different ecological region of the earth is explored in each programme, and reveals the way in which fauna and flora have adapted to cope with the extremes of their environment.

From the Arctic to the southern United States stretches the largest forest in the world. David Attenborough roams from north to south through this spectacular woodland, starting amid conifers high in the Arctic Circle and ending among the giant sequoia trees of the Sierra Nevada. Among the wildlife he encounters are huge great grey owls, sapsucker woodpeckers, hummingbirds, raccoons, chipmunks and burrowing tortoises.

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