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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 min. 12 sec.) ; 297072018 bytes |
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Planet Earth ; Series 1, Episode 3 |
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This week, Planet Earth follows the descent of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea and showcases the unique and dramatic wildlife found within its unexplored waters. The story begins in southern Venezuela, at a series of isolated mountain plateaus - the setting for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. With each torrential downpour, the swollen streams shoot over the precipice, plunging 979 metres into the Devil's Canyon below, to become Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall.From here, the journey continues downstream to the planet's most spectacular rivers and lakes, such as the widest continuous waterfall, the thundering Iguacu Falls, and the perilous waters of the world's largest wetland, the Pantanal in Brazil.Planet Earth provides a fresh perspective of the Grand Canyon, flying a mile down inside the throat of the world's most infamous stretch of canyons. It also explores unfamiliar territory, breaking the ice and diving deep into the word's deepest lake, Lake Baikal in Siberia, home to the world's only freshwater seal and giant prehistoric amphipods. Further strange life-forms include the giant salamander, a living-day monster from the remote mountain rivers of Japan, and the Boto river dolphin, found only in the Amazon.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production in association with the CBC. Executive Producer and Director, Alastair Fothergill (The Blue Planet). Producers; Andy Byatt, Vanessa Berlowitz, Mark Brownlow, Huw Cordey, Jonathan Keeling and Mark Linfield. Soundtrack by George Fenton |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2011-02-27 at 13:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Freshwater fishes -- Habitat.
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Habitat (Ecology)
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Japanese giant salamander.
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Natural history.
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Rain forest ecology.
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Waterfalls.
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Brazil.
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Japan.
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Venezuela.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Attenborough, David, cast
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Fothergill, Alastair, director
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